Engineers Without Borders

1. Engineers Without Borders 1st meeting, Fall 2010 9/9/2010

2. Overview • (5 min) EWB spiel • Know who we are, what we do, why you want to get involved, how you can get involved • Introduce officer team • (10 min) Grady Hillhouse, VP of Projects • Costa Rica Project (video and report) • (5 min) Doug Simmons, Project AcuñaLeader • (7.22 min) Kevin O’Leary- VP of Development • What is organizational development • Soap Box Derby • (15 min) Short Training session: GET A JOB!! • (10 min) Updates, Questions • (5 min) Sign ups

3. What is Engineers Without Borders? • Student driven service organization- promotes sustainable engineering projects in developing communities. • We are active internationally (Mexico, Costa Rica), and locally in the Bryan/College Station area • We offer great training, resources, responsibility, leadership opportunities, international travel opportunities (lots of good stuff). EWB IS: • Well Established • Capable • Growing • Improving • Motivated • Strong leadership • Good for your health …The best organization on campus…

4. EWB-TAMU 2010/2011 Officer Team • Project Leads: • Doug Simmons, Project Acuña • Kate Lowe, Scotty’s House Playground Project • Jo Maldonado and Kim Sperry- Children’s Museum of Bryan • Costa Rica Leads- take an application! • Soap Box Coordinators- take an application! • Development Officers • Bill Gordon, Fundraising Director • Reid Garcia, Training Director • Cristina Vadell, Webmaster • Amanda Roberts, Internal Communication • Ricky Palacios, Publicity Director • TanziaKarim, Treasurer • Executive Officers • Kevin O’Leary, Vice President of Development • Grady Hillhouse, Vice President of Projects • Grady Meloy, President

5. Costa Rica ProjectHuge Progress! • Project almost totally finished! • After tiling and painting, we will be able to remotely assist the community in getting the computers hooked up and networked. Photos from Diana Grigoryan

6. Costa Rica- Looking Ahead • There is still a lot to do! • Wrapping up loose ends • 526 Post Implementation Report • Helping community with education for building and computers • Preparing for possible future project Photos by Adam Heckmann

7. Costa Rica- Project Leads • The Costa Rica project needs new co-leads! • Lots of responsibility • Manage the team in wrapping up the computer center project • Guide and direct analysis and research for future project possibilities • Lots of reward • Experience in project management and leadership • Fulfillment of helping a communities needs • If you’re interested, sign up after the meeting! Photos by Marissa Baldwin

8. Acuña Project • Project Scope • Design and construct a portable facility to store supplies for a community help center in Acuña, Mexico • Background • Assessment trip: January 2010 • Alternatives analysis and Preliminary Design: Spring 2010

9. Spring 2010- AcuñaProject • Next Steps • Structural Analysis • Constructability Assessment and Prototyping • Health and Safety Program / Safety Training • Implementation Planning • Community Input and Education • Goals • October 17th – Submit Pre-Implementation Report • January 2011 – Implementation • Meetings: Mondays, 7 – 9, CE 217

10. Local Projects • Scotty’s House Project • Collaboration with architecture class and the Society of Petroleum Engineers build a playground for Child Advocacy Center! • We finalize design, fabricate, implement! • Children’s Museum of Bryan • We have our own ‘Engineers Without Borders’ Room! • Design cool stuff, build it, install it! • Other Local Projects coming up this year: • Container clinic, Duck Jam, Still Creek Ranch • Training/involvement activities: Replant, Big Event, Habitat for Humanity build day

11. What is Development? • THE FOCUS: • Allow EWB-TAMU to do more, and to do everything better • Improve and build on the reasons that EWB is the best organization on campus • Give our members the best experience possible • Build our members skills • Innovate • Serve Others • Enhance the Projects Team • We are trying to improve, but we will only succeed if we: • Have clearly defined goals and expectations • Understand where we have been, and have learned from (and documented) our experiential knowledge (by far one of our most valuable assets) • We will be making a plan of how we will go about making EWB-TAMU the best it can be

12. Who is the Development Team? • Treasurer: Tanzia • Internal Communication: Amanda • Webmaster: Cristina • Training: Reid • Fundraising: Bill • Publicity: Ricky = DREAM

13. Soap Box Derby: The AGGIE 500 • Last semester was a huge success! • This semester- 2ND annual Derby! • We need people to join the Soap Box team for planning, organizing and coordination!

14. Amanda’s Updates! 1. EWB Mentor Program - What is it? • Opportunity for upperclassmen to mentor younger students • Way to transfer knowledge/tips on college life, engineering classes, EWB, etc • Chance to make new friends! Sign-up sheet available Contact Amanda Roberts for more information 2. First social will be next Friday, September 17th. More details to come… 3. We need t-shirt ideas! Please send them to internal.ewbtamu@gmail.com by next Friday. Winner will receive a prize! 4. Next meeting is on September 23rd! (big meetings every two weeks) • Speaker: Jim Olsen (he’s really really cool) • More in depth into ‘What EWB is’, what projects are at 1st training meeting • More food!

15. Short Training Session:GET A JOB!! • SEPTEMBER 14TH IS ENGR CAREER FAIR! • Things to do before then: • Resume- have career center help you (Koldus) • 1 page, prove your skills, be honest • Mock Interview – sign up at Koldus! • Great practice; they will critique you • Research- hireaggies.com, company websites, career center website articles, google, etc • Present yourself- dress business casual, firm hand shake, eye contact

16. More Information • SEPTEMBER 14TH-15thIS ENGR CAREER FAIR! • Next Tuesday and Wednesday, 10am-5pm • Sec.tamu.edu/corporate/ • Careercenter.tamu.edu, • Koldusroom 209!! • Ask us questions! • Suggested Companies: Spectra, Bechtel, CDM, Apache, Anadarko, Raytheon, Medtronics (see the flyer!)

17. SIGN UPS! (at the front) Leadership Opportunities: • Costa Rica project lead • Soap Box Derby Event Coordinators Team Sign ups: • Soap Box Derby Team • Costa Rica project team • Acuña project team • Scotty’s House Playground Project team • Children’s Museum of Bryan Project Team • Fundraising team Development Opportunities: • Student Impact study, why EWB is good for your health • Community Impact study, focus on sociology and sustainability • Future Planning Task Force, international and local project search

18. QUESTIONS?We didn’t cover everything in detail, so ask us or see one of the officers for more information!Project Structure = meeting schedule + positional responsibilities

19. Ewb is the greatest! • If you don’t want to wait in line, all the info will be on our website! • ewb.tamu.edu • if you don’t know what project yet, no big • The signup sheets are just so we can email you info. You aren’t signing your soul away • Why are you still here? It’s past your bedtime!