Evan, second semester recruiting of freshmen is a great idea! Can you find out for us the date by which freshmen are required to select their majors? Sean On 7/31/02 3:12 AM, "Evan Nikolich" <evan.nikolich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IEEE Executive Board, > > I hope you are all having a good, productive summer and I look forward > to working with all of you this coming semester. I have volunteered to > take on the recruiting responsibilities, especially among the sophomore > classes. I plan by August 30th to have given a short presentation in > my own fundamental classes about why ECE and CPE students should join > the IEEE and plan to make presentations in the other fundamental > courses too. I plan to handout a brochure at the end of my > presentation listing the benefits and our web address, and pass a sheet > out to gather email addresses that want to receive emails from the > Villanova IEEE. I like Sean?s idea on 50% subsidy for new student IEEE > members, I believe this can help attract more members. Can we send a > class wide recruiting emails from the IEEE so we contact every ECE CPE > student from sophomore to senior? > > Looking further into the future, second semester, I would like to make > some kind of contact with the freshmen engineering class. I believe > very few freshmen are even aware of the IEEE and I would like to see > some freshmen enrollment into the IEEE in the second semester. I > believe to keep our branch alive and active we need to start as soon as > possible with new members so they can learn and become experienced and > keep our branch very active after we graduate. > > A note on the meeting times. I have no problems with bi-weekly > meetings just as long as the meetings begin after 5 or later on any > given day of the week. > > Enjoy the rest of you summer everyone and look forward to seeing you > all at our first meeting of the new semester. > > --Evan Nikolich > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean T. Brady" <sean@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:34 pm > Subject: IEEE Exec: 2002-2003 Proposal > >> Hello, >> >> I hope you are all enjoying your summers. As the fall semester >> approaches,it is imperative that we begin planning our IEEE >> activities in order to >> lighten our semester load as well as to develop a reasonable budget. >> Attached is a preliminary proposal for the 2002-2003 school year that >> outlines a few of my ideas for our branch. I would like for each >> of you to >> review the proposal and reply with your own critiques and ideas by >> August 1. >> I would like to fashion this proposal into a more formal document >> that will >> be used to benchmark our performance throughout the year. >> >> I look forward to working with all of you to execute a successful >> year for >> the IEEE @ VU. >> >> Sean >> >> > > >