Officers: Adam Emfield, Ashley Hughes, Jennifer Leavens, Julissa Nunez, Timothy White, Alexis Dewar, Alyssa Hess & Shannon Bailey
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm EST
Location: PSY 303 (HF Lounge)
Agenda
Introductions, plans for the year, fundraising, newsletter information, webpages, HFES Student Chapter website, feedback
Plans for the year
Continuing & New events
- Superhero party (April)
- New venue- Tom’s (Alicia)
- Suggested we have a poll or something similar to get new theme
- Tim will assist in preparations- others welcome to help
- Disney Trip
- Air Traffic Control trip (Jen)
- Feb. 19th (suggest pushing back to accommodate for HFES deadline)
- Happy Hour
- Suggested days- Mondays or Fridays
- Party bus idea for safe transportation
- Guest Speakers
- Art Kramer (Feb. 4th)
- Sprint handset developer
Fundraising
Roughly 2 hour meeting, decide how much we are going to request $500 from National Chapter- w/ option to ask for more later
Speakers
Open floor for suggestions
Newsletter
Alyssa (editor), Lexi (co-editor), Adam
- Topics- Anything useful for current students, faculty, and alumni
- “Werebat” mascot
- Review of previous year
Personal Webpages
- Web presence for all members
- Suggestions for things to be included
- Link to CV (options for easy updating)
- Publications
- Recent highlights
- Conferences attended
- Affiliations
- Contact information
- Current projects
- New website, see Szalma
Website (General) – Suggestions
- Academic calendar
- Upcoming events
- Meeting minutes
- Links to journals
- Faculty information (office hours)
- Front desk should be able to help with this
- Resources to be good RAs
- Michael Boyce & Ashley Hughes have suggestions
- Birthdays?
Feedback
- Outreach to other disciplines
- IT, CS, Programming Club
- Speak at intro classes (Gaby)
- Advertisements (“Did you know” signs)
- Can’t be negative on UCF property Webpage
General Announcement
All HFES student chapter members are welcome to join officers weekly at 3:30 on Wednesdays for meetings/ volunteering to help