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== 9/18 ==
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Introductions – Trevor is cool
Weekly Newsletter discussion
- Emulate the Engineering Student Life newsletter? – Walter will talk to them about their system
- Topics to cover:
- ECE events (Connect, UAB Townhalls, Company Info Sessions, Research Talks)
- Academic deadlines (Drops, Q-drops, OTE, registration dates)
- Major course changes (no more major sequence, pre-req changes, etc.)
- Common registration problems (bars)
- Words of advice (dean, faculty)
- Alumni advice
- Scholarship opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Lecture (University Lecture Series?) dates
- Study abroad news/info sessions/deadlines
- Department news (new faculty, anniversaries, EERC updates)
- Jason can do graphics/layout if we can incorporate images
Calendar discussion
- ECE Google Calendar managed by UAB?
- Links to IEEE, WECE, etc. calendars
- System for getting access/posting on Engineering Student Life calendar is hard/too complicated/messy
Curriculum Committee
- EE 302 lab needs major revamp
- TAs need to know LabVIEW/get trained!
- Each lab should be components of the car project
- Lab isn’t major component of grade, so instead of being harsh on grades, focus on helping every student really learn LabVIEW, circuits, and how to do a functioning car
- EE 313 maybe we could learn MATLAB at some point/with the class?
Oct 2 Townhall
- Introduce ourselves and present our roles and contact info
- If students want curriculum changes:
- Mid-semester survey
- End-of-semester survey
- UAB/Curriculum Committee processes responses
- Consolidate main feedback and present to professors mid-semester
- If End-of-semester results are still bad, then long-term changes might be necessary
Action points would be to talk to Engineering Student Life about the newsletter. I can try to organize the topics we wanted on the newsletter into some layout/format.