Howdy All,
Hope your week is off to a good start.The Energy Club meeting was great and we have some great ideas to move forward.Action items in this email are in italics,otherwise information only.
If you put your name up on the board for thefilm series, clean energy field trip, social events or local field trips, someone from the leadership team will be contacting you this week to get the group launched.If you weren’t able to attend or couldn’t stay till the end of the meeting and are interested in one of these topics, please reply to the sender ().
Also, we had some interesting and exciting ideas put forward regarding potential topics.If you are interested in leading in these areas, please contact the person listed next to the area of interest:
NY Trip (Michael Kroon)
Local Energy Company speakers ()
Alumni Outreach Career Panel (Corinne)
COP 15 Discussion
ACESA (AKA Waxman-Markey, HR 2454) Bill Discussion
Webpage/Nickipedia/NSOE blogging
For everyone who couldn’t make the first meeting or had to leave early, below is a brief recap of what we discussed at the energy club meeting:
Introduction of the leadership team:
Director-Jason Levinn
Oversees all functions and assure smooth operation of the club; ability to call meetings; coordinate overall events and strategy
Another director will be chosen from the incoming first-years
Finance Director-Chris Benonis
Manages finances and budget of club
Documentations Director-Jada Tullos Anderson
Takes notes at meetings; maintains energy club email list, creates and organizes schedule of events; maintains event archive
Web Director-Daniel Kolomeets-Darovsky
Upkeep of Nickipedia page; if needed, helps documentation director with email list
Liaisons-Molly Ward and Beth Conlin
Connect energy interest groups around campus (Fuqua, Law, Pratt, Sanford, etc.)
Report of Survey
Majority of people want events on Wed & Thurs every 2-4 weeks, 1 energy field trip per semester, Smart Grid is a major interest as are Energy Policy and local field trips
Energy Career Club
A group is being started by Glenda in Career Services that will explore potential employers as well as fields of employment for EEs.Membership is limited to second years at this time, but contributions (i.e., contacts) are welcome and the deliverables will be valuable to everyone, not just those who participate this year.Meetings will begin after 9/25 and Glenda will send out details to EE second years later this month.
DUGI partnership
The Energy Club and DUGI are complimentary organizations that, while they generally do not work together directly, provide promotional support to each other.Anyone interested in DUGI can contact Amy Morsch (non-EE/ 2ndyr) or Daniel Kolomeets-Darovsky (EE/2ndyr).