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February 6, 2010

Phase I Funding Update IEEE Student Branch at The University of Texas at Austin IEEE CTS Spring Planning Meeting San Marcos, TX. February 6, 2010. Branch Overview. Developing closer relationship with community, college, department, section, and corporate supporters

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February 6, 2010

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  1. Phase I Funding UpdateIEEE Student Branch at The University of Texas at AustinIEEE CTSSpring Planning MeetingSan Marcos, TX February 6, 2010

  2. Branch Overview • Developing closer relationship with community, college, department, section, and corporate supporters • Working with Society Student Chapters: • CommSoc & Computer (less active) • Power & Energy and Robotics & Automation (very active) • Incubating a new Society Student Chapter at UT Austin: IEEE Magnetics Society

  3. Branch Officers • Erik Eyberg, Chair • chair@ieee.ece.utexas.edu • Don Owen, Internal Vice-Chair  • internal.vicechair@ieee.ece.utexas.edu • Ashley Nelson, External Vice-Chair • external.vicechair@ieee.ece.utexas.edu • Thien-An Nguyen, Corporate Liaison • corporate.liaison@ieee.ece.utexas.edu • Francis Israel, Treasurer • treasurer@ieee.ece.utexas.edu

  4. New & Updated • General meetings: 2/11, 2/25, 3/6, 3/11,3/25, 4/8, 4/22, 5/6 • Currently seeking corporate support for 2/25, 3/11, 4/8, 5/6 • Social events (discussed later) • Frag-a-Thon • IEEE/SWE Social  • Athletic activities • Fajita Fest at end of semester • Officer elections • ECE Student Representation • New Constitution and Bylaws

  5. Phase I Proposal We requested $750 in August to support 3 key areas: • Outreach ($250) • Social Activities ($250) • Corporate and Faculty Networking ($250)

  6. Where is the money? • Much to our chagrin, the Phase I support check was only recently deposited. • However, we do not believe that this will affect our plans for this semester because the semester has only recently started. • We have not spent any of the money yet but we have concrete plans for several events that fall into the areas for which we requested support.

  7. Outreach • EDAM - Engineering Day at the Museum is an outreach program that is coordinated with the Austin Children Museum • February 14th, 10AM-5PM • We will be using the outreach-earmarked portion of our Phase I support to buy supplies for some basic circuit-building exercises (batteries, resistors, LEDs, wires...) • Other options in the works: • Engineering Saturdays • Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

  8. Social Activities • Last semester we had a successful social event with the UT branch of Society of Women Engineers (SWE) • Due to the success of that event for both organizations, we plan to repeat the event this semester • Phase I support to be used for food and drinks • We also have a "Frag-A-Thon" (LAN Party) scheduled as one of IEEE's activities during E-Week • Phase I funds will go towards prizes and other awards. • "Broomball" with Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) • Competitive, social sporting event played against the ECE honor society • Phase I support to be used for equipment and other fees

  9. Corporate & Faculty Networking • The Branch generally covers meeting expenses thanks to the generosity of our corporate sponsors. • So, some CTS funds may be used for miscellaneous meeting expenses, but not a large amount. • One of the goals of the Branch is to help interest students in research in our own department. • We usually try to do this through lunch presentations, but few corporations are interested in funding research presentations for which they are not the focus. • Therefore, we plan on using the majority of the earmarked $250 to start a series of faculty research presentations.

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