Please remember to keep filling out your index cards. If you have sold tickets or helped out for TED, please include that time.

Brent has some Bulletins that are sent out to members. Members who were intitated last semester probably didn't receive that issue. If you would like one, please see Brent.

There are several scholarships available for juniors who will be here next year. One is through Student Senate that is available to active members in Senate recognized organizations. The other is through TBP. Brent has applications for both.

Julie confirms that everything is under control for TED. There was a slight menu change. Please keep promoting the event as ticket sales end Thursday. If anyone has ideas for door pizes, see Julie. We also need four to five volunteers to help out the night of TED. You would need to arrive at the Great Hall at 5:30. If you can help out, please email Brent.

We have a tentative schedule for FE Review sessions. Professors will be contacted this week.

The regional conference for TBP is April 6. We are allowed to send eight members. Newly elected officers usually attend. Please keep the date free if you plan to run for an exec. board position.

We will be taking a collection for the World Relief Fund. There will be a jar at the door of the TED Banquet.

The Service project will be on April 13. Please volunteer to help with your society's activities.

Next meeting Feb. 25.

Mary Treanor, a math professor, is looking for volunteers to help with the MENI camp and Mathcounts. The MENI camp is Feb. 7-8. She needs women to house the participants the evening of Feb. 7. She also needs help from men or women to take the participants to lunch, dinner, and the bball game. Mathcounts is Feb. 12, and she needs graders for the event. If you can help out, please see Professor Treanor for details and exact time commitments.

We had 43 participants at Engineering Futures this past Saturday. A special thanks to Julie for organizing the activity.

We voted on the TED menu. The entrees will be carved turkey and baked spinach lasnaga. The sides will be whipped potatoes, stuffing, green beans, corn, gelatin, and tossed salad with marble layered cake served as dessert.

Dr. Harre and Professor Krouger have both agreed to speak at the TED banquet.

We will be selling tickets Feb. 4 through Feb. 14. The price is $9 for students, and they can put up to $6 on their meal cards. The price for professors is $14. The schedule for selling tickets is listed below. The first student listed needs to get the cash box from Cami around 10:45 and will sit at the table until 11:30. The second student will sit at the table from 11:30 until 12:15 and return the box to Cami when done.

Feb. 4 - Aaron, Tim
Feb. 5 - Paul J., Liz
Feb. 6 - Julie (both shifts)
Feb. 7 - Paul M., Carrie
Feb. 8 - Aaron, Dan
Feb. 11 - Julie, Liz
Feb. 12 - Paul J., John
Feb. 13 - Paul M., Brent
Feb. 14 - Amy (both shifts)

Eric has agreed to advertise for the event. Housekeeping has reminded us not to place signs on wooden surfaces.

The date for the election meeting will be Monday, Feb. 11 from 5:30 to 6:30. We will also be voting on ratifications for nationals at that time. We need at least three quarters of our active members there to be able to vote. If you can't make it, please email me this week. If we dont have enough members, we will have to move the meeting.

Professor Johnson and I have decided to go ahead with the joint project just without the speaker. We will need the participation of all the societies for this event to work. More details will follow in the upcoming weeks.

The next meeting will be Feb. 11 during chapel break.

Meeting notes from Jan. 14, 2002:

Members need to remember to keep filling out their index cards. If you have not started an index card, see Brent at the next meeting.

We raised between $120-$130 and matched with another $100 for adopt-a-family. A special thanks to Amy Johnson for purchasing the gifts.

Engineering futures will be Saturday, Jan. 26 at 9:00am until 12:00pm. The topic will be group meetings.

The TED banquet will be Tuesday, Feb. 19. We need to finalize the meal next meeting. The price of student tickets will be $9 with up to $6 on their meal card. The skit rules have remained the same as last year. We plan to have three speakers this year: Harre-introduction, Luecke-introduction, and Kruger-history of TED.

If you are interested in tutoring/mentoring, please see Laura Sanders in the Learning Center.

If you would like your resume posted to the website, please email John at john.lofgren@valpo.edu.

We will be sponsoring FE Review sessions again this year. They will be videotaped so students taking the exam next fall will have access to them. Dan and Tim have agreed to oversee this project.

The funding for the service project has fallen through. However, we still received the ASME grant for $1500 last semester. We plan to organize the morning part of the project, but we will have to forego on the speaker.

The next meeting will be Monday, Jan. 28 during chapel break.

Just a reminder, if a member (not on co-op) misses three consecutive meetings, he/she will be subject to a formal warning and a meeting with the advisory board.

All new members need to fill out index cards. See Brent for cards and details.

All other members need to keep filling out their cards.

We are doing adopt-a-family again this year. Ms. Gudino is collecting the money for us. Please give all donations to her. We are asking members to give $2 each.

The meeting time for next semester is Monday during chapel break.

Brent shipped off all of the polo shirts to the alumni.

Eric submitted the names of people willing to mentor to Ms. Sanders. They are still looking for people. If interested, please see Ms. Sanders/Brent/Eric.

John has updated the website with new members. If you would like your resume posted there, email it to john.lofgren@valpo.edu.

The tentative date for engineering futures is Jan. 19. We are considering offering either People Skills II or basic team skills.

We received the ASME grant for the joint project. We are still working on setting up a speaker.

Our next meeting will not be until next semester.

Good luck on finals! Have a good break!

Please remember to keep filling out your index cards for all work done for TBP.

As a chapter we need to vote on two amendments to the National Constitution. The first one would make English the official language of TBP. The second would put a chapter on probation if it didn't hold initiation once a fiscal year. We will vote on these amendments after the initiation of our new members.

Don't forget, engineering formal is coming up. Tickets are on sale at chapel break.

The Learning Center is still looking for mentors. If interested, please contact Laura Sanders in the Learning Center.

The website has been updated. If you would like your resume posted to the site, please email John (john.lofgren@valpo.edu) your resume. It can be in Word, PDF, or HTML form.

We have found out that one of the shirt colors is different than shown when we showed the shirts. We will refund the money of anyone not happy with the new color. Eric will send an email to anyone whose shirt was to be shipped to see if they still want the shirt. The yellow shirts are on back order. We are going to wait to pick up the shirts until they are all available.

For the joint project with OMP, a request letter was sent to Mae Jemison asking her to speak. A grant proposal was also sent to ASME requesting funding.

Don't forget initiation is the Thursday we return from break at 7:30. There will be practice at 7:00 Monday, Nov. 26 for those who volunteered to help.

We have decided to participate in the Adopt-a-Family program this year. We plan to get the other societies involved. We are planning on a family of five. TBP will match all money donated by members with a minimum of $50 and a maximum of $100.

Next meeting will be Dec. 3 during chapel break.

Brent attended the national conference over fall break.  Our chapter received two awards: Projects award and the Secretary's Accomodation Award.  It was our second year in a row for receiving the project award.  If we receive the award again next year, our chapter will be eligible to receive scholarship money.

A special thanks goes out to Eric, Julie, and Dr. Steffen for all of their work with shirt sales.  They should arrive the second week of November.  Eric plans to start a file with the information gathered this year to help aid members of TBP that organize this activity next year.

The learning center has asked TBP members to serve as mentors for freshman engineering students who request them. If you are interested or have any questions, see the learning center.

A request letter was sent to Mae Jemison about speaking on campus in connection with the joint project.  She should respond in the next two weeks.  A grant proposal was also sent to ASME to help fund the project.

There are student scholarships available to anyone returning to undergrad work next year.  See Brent for details.

Mark your calendars now! Initiation is Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7:30.

Dont forget pictures for the yearbook are Friday at 6:15.

Our next meeting is Monday, Nov 12 during chapel break.

Please remember to continue filling out the index cards with any activities that you have done for TBP. That includes any time spent selling shirts!

Engineering Futures has been cancelled due to the facilitators being unavailable during November.

There will be an Engineering Formal Dec. 1 organized by DSAC.

Thanks to Amy and Maren for putting the resume books together!

This week a letter should be sent to Mae Jemison asking her to speak at our joint program with OMP. ASME has agreed to fill out a petition asking nationals for money.

There is a meeting tonight (with pizza) to meet and vote on new members for this fall. The meeting will be upstairs in Gellersen at 6:00. We need everyone to attend.

Our next meeting after that will be Oct. 29 during chapel break.

Everyone needs to remember to keep filling out their index cards with any time they have spent on Tau Beta Pi stuff.

Resume Book Update:
-signs will be posted Tuesday in Gellersen
-an email will be sent out soon

Engineering Futures:
-Nov. 3 probably from 9-1 (still a tentative date)
-Lisa Henry has agreed to help Julie (who will be out of town that day) with anything that needs done that day

T-shirts (Polo Shirts):
-discussed possible logos (probably going to use new Valpo V with Engineering underneath it
-need to fill out application through Kretzmann
-still calling local vendors about pricing

Joint Project with OMP:
-met with a majority of the societies
-IEEE Calumet Section has set aside $500
-haven't heard back about any other donations or petitions to nationals
-will follow up this week

Fellowships and Scholarship Opportunities are available. See Brent for information.

The Election meeting for new initiates will be Monday Oct. 15 at 6:00. Please write Jody back if you will be unable to attend. We need to have 3/4 attendance.

There is a volunteering opportunity Thursday morning. See Ms. Engerer if interested or Brent for more details.

Next meeting: Oct. 15 during chapel break

Everyone needs to remember to fill out their index cards.

Maren and Amy are looking for an email list to all senior engineering majors. Otherwise they will email the message to the entire COE. They will be posting signs soon. Tentative due date is the week before homecoming.

Engineering futures is being planned for either Nov. 3 or Nov. 10. We are considering doing another session in the spring.

John Lofgren has agreed to be the webmaster.

We are planning to sell shirts again this year. Julie and Eric are looking into prices.

The national ratifications that we voted on last spring passed.

We accepted a list of possible candidates for fall initiation.

We have agreed to co-sponsor a volunteering activity with the Office of Multicultural Programs. The program will take place in the spring. We will need volunteers to help out, and we also need to help raise funds. We are asking the engineering societies to possibly help.

Our next meeting is October 1.

Introduction of Officers
President: Brent Anderson
Vice-President: Julie Steinbrenner
Cor. Sec.: Maren van Otterloo
Rec. Sec.: Jody Turrell
Treasurer: Tim Weidner
Cataloger: Lisa Henry

Career Fair Information provided by Sandy McGuigan, Dir. of the Career Center
Career Fair is Friday, September 14.
Volunteers are needed to run the career fair, go to the Career Center to sign up.
Volunteers Meeting on Sunday, September 9 at 6pm in the CC Refectory.

Meeting Time
It was decided to hold future meetings on Mondays during chapel break on weeks opposite ASCE. The next meeting will be September 17.

Index Cards
At the next meeting remember to record hours helping out at the Career Fair and/or the picnic, as well as attendance at the picnic.

Engineering Picnic
Friday, September 14 at 5pm behind Gellersen.
Come help setup (4pm) and/or clean up afterwards.
Tau Beta Pi will donate $50 to help cover the costs of the picnic.

Projects
Resume Book - Amy Johnson, Maren Van Otterloo
Webmaster - postponed until next meeting
Tutoring Chair - Eric Fey
Engineering Futures Committee - Julie Steinbrenner (chair), Lisa Henry

Service Projects
Discussed two possible service projects. One through the Verizon Grant and the second through the Office of Multicultural Programs.

SAE Go-Cart Outing
SAE has invited the other engineering societies to an outing on Saturday, September 15 leaving Gellersen at 6pm.

Next Meeting
Monday, September 17 at Chapel Break

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