Transcript Engineers Without Borders

Engineers Without
Borders
1st meeting, Fall 2010
9/9/2010
Overview
• (5 min) EWB spiel
• Know who we are, what we do, why you want to get involved, how
you can get involved
• Introduce officer team
• (10 min) Grady Hillhouse, VP of Projects
• Costa Rica Project (video and report)
• (5 min) Doug Simmons, Project Acuña Leader
• (7.22 min) Kevin O’Leary- VP of Development
• What is organizational development
• Soap Box Derby
• (15 min) Short Training session: GET A JOB!!
• (10 min) Updates, Questions
• (5 min) Sign ups
What is Engineers Without Borders?
• Student driven service organization- promotes sustainable
engineering projects in developing communities.
• We are active internationally (Mexico, Costa Rica), and locally in the
Bryan/College Station area
• We offer great training, resources, responsibility, leadership
opportunities, international travel opportunities (lots of good stuff).
EWB IS:
– Well Established
– Capable
– Growing
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Improving
Motivated
Strong leadership
Good for your health
…The best organization on campus…
EWB-TAMU 2010/2011 Officer Team
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Doug Simmons, Project Acuña
Kate Lowe, Scotty’s House Playground Project
Jo Maldonado and Kim Sperry- Children’s Museum of Bryan
Costa Rica Leads- take an application!
Soap Box Coordinators- take an application!
• Development Officers
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Bill Gordon, Fundraising Director
Reid Garcia, Training Director
Cristina Vadell, Webmaster
Amanda Roberts, Internal Communication
Ricky Palacios, Publicity Director
Tanzia Karim, Treasurer
• Executive Officers
• Kevin O’Leary, Vice President of Development
• Grady Hillhouse, Vice President of Projects
• Grady Meloy, President
Costa Rica Project
Huge Progress!
• Project almost totally finished!
• After tiling and painting, we will be able to remotely
assist the community in getting the computers
hooked up and networked.
Photos from Diana Grigoryan
Costa Rica- Looking Ahead
• There is still a lot to do!
• Wrapping up loose ends
• 526 Post Implementation Report
• Helping community with education for building and
computers
• Preparing for possible future project
Photos by Adam Heckmann
Costa Rica- Project Leads
• The Costa Rica project needs new co-leads!
• Lots of responsibility
• Manage the team in wrapping up the computer center project
• Guide and direct analysis and research for future project
possibilities
• Lots of reward
• Experience in project management and leadership
• Fulfillment of helping a communities needs
• If you’re interested, sign up after the meeting!
Photos by Marissa Baldwin
Acuña Project
• Project Scope
• Design and construct a portable
facility to store supplies for a
community help center in
Acuña, Mexico
• Background
• Assessment trip: January 2010
• Alternatives analysis and
Preliminary Design: Spring 2010
Spring 2010- Acuña Project
• Next Steps
• Structural Analysis
• Constructability Assessment and
Prototyping
• Health and Safety Program / Safety
Training
• Implementation Planning
• Community Input and Education
• Goals
• October 17th – Submit PreImplementation Report
• January 2011 – Implementation
• Meetings: Mondays, 7 – 9, CE 217
Local Projects
• Scotty’s House Project
• Collaboration with architecture class and the Society of Petroleum
Engineers build a playground for Child Advocacy Center!
• We finalize design, fabricate, implement!
• Children’s Museum of Bryan
• We have our own ‘Engineers Without Borders’ Room!
• Design cool stuff, build it, install it!
• Other Local Projects coming up this year:
• Container clinic, Duck Jam, Still Creek Ranch
• Training/involvement activities: Replant, Big Event, Habitat for
Humanity build day
What is Development?
• THE FOCUS:
• Allow EWB-TAMU to do more, and to do everything better
• Improve and build on the reasons that EWB is the best organization
on campus
• Give our members the best experience possible
• Build our members skills
• Innovate
• Serve Others
• Enhance the Projects Team
• We are trying to improve, but we will only succeed if we:
• Have clearly defined goals and expectations
• Understand where we have been, and have learned from (and
documented) our experiential knowledge (by far one of our most
valuable assets)
• We will be making a plan of how we will go about making EWB-TAMU
the best it can be
Who is the Development
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Treasurer: Tanzia
Internal Communication: Amanda
Webmaster: Cristina
Training: Reid
Fundraising: Bill
Publicity: Ricky
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DREAM
Soap Box Derby: The AGGIE 500
• Last semester was a huge success!
• This semester- 2ND annual Derby!
• We need people to join the Soap
Box team for planning, organizing
and coordination!
Amanda’s Updates!
1. EWB Mentor Program - What is it?
• Opportunity for upperclassmen to mentor younger students
• Way to transfer knowledge/tips on college life, engineering classes, EWB, etc
• Chance to make new friends!
Sign-up sheet available
Contact Amanda Roberts for more information
2. First social will be next Friday, September 17th. More details to come…
3. We need t-shirt ideas! Please send them to
[email protected] by next Friday.
Winner will receive a prize!
4. Next meeting is on September 23rd! (big meetings every two weeks)
• Speaker: Jim Olsen (he’s really really cool)
• More in depth into ‘What EWB is’, what projects are at 1st training meeting
• More food!
Short Training Session:
GET A JOB!!
• SEPTEMBER 14TH IS ENGR CAREER FAIR!
• Things to do before then:
• Resume- have career center help you (Koldus)
• 1 page, prove your skills, be honest
• Mock Interview – sign up at Koldus!
• Great practice; they will critique you
• Research- hireaggies.com, company websites, career center website
articles, google, etc
• Present yourself- dress business casual, firm hand shake, eye contact
More Information
• SEPTEMBER 14TH-15th IS ENGR CAREER FAIR!
• Next Tuesday and Wednesday, 10am-5pm
• Sec.tamu.edu/corporate/
• Careercenter.tamu.edu,
• Koldus room 209!!
• Ask us questions!
• Suggested Companies: Spectra, Bechtel, CDM, Apache,
Anadarko, Raytheon, Medtronics (see the flyer!)
SIGN UPS! (at the front)
Leadership Opportunities:
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Costa Rica project lead
Soap Box Derby Event Coordinators
Team Sign ups:
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Soap Box Derby Team
Costa Rica project team
Acuña project team
Scotty’s House Playground Project team
Children’s Museum of Bryan Project Team
Fundraising team
Development Opportunities:
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Student Impact study, why EWB is good for your health
Community Impact study, focus on sociology and sustainability
Future Planning Task Force, international and local project search
QUESTIONS?
We didn’t cover everything in detail, so ask us or see one of the officers for more information!
Project Structure = meeting schedule + positional responsibilities
VP Review
Project Lead
Review
Group Manager
Review
• Project leads present to VP-Projects
• Discuss proposed project schedule, challenges,
progress, upcoming work, feedback
• Group managers present to Project Lead
• Propose task assignments, collaborate with
other group managers
• Group members present to whole project team
• Debrief on new developments, design
challenges
Ewb is the greatest!
• If you don’t want to wait in line, all the
info will be on our website!
• ewb.tamu.edu
• if you don’t know what project yet, no big
• The signup sheets are just so we can email
you info. You aren’t signing your soul away
• Why are you still here? It’s past your
bedtime!