UNIVERSITY ENGINEERS’ CLUB 2015
MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday 12th May, 2:00pm, MILC Boardroom
TYPE OF MEETING: COMMITTEE MEETING
PRESENT: DANIEL BELL, MATT CLARK-MASSERA, KATE CULLEN,
ANDREJ DAMMER, BEN DIX-MATTHEWS, TOM EASTER, LUKE ELLERY,
ERIC GRANDINGER, BEN JOHNSTON, JEIK KIM, JODIE KOH, BERNARD
KRETZMANN, KAIDEN MCCARTHY, JASON PONSONBY, PAOLO ROSSI,
LUCAS TESTAR AND ALLAN WILLIAMS
APOLOGIES: BEC BENTLEY, LUKE DEVENISH, JAMES DRUMMOND,
KELLY HAWES, EMILY LAW, ALEX O’NEILL, LAURA PECORARI, KRISTINA
TKATCHENKO, ALEX TURNER, CAITLIN WOODS AND CHRISTINA VO
I.
M E E T I N G ST AR T : 2 : 0 5 P M
II.
I T E M S FO R D I SC U S SI O N
a) Previous Meeting Minutes
b) Actions Arising
c) Careers Report
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Ed reps need to send out invites to VWE – will receive from jeik soon
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Jeik – needs to allocate specific companies to reps
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Jeik give essential info to Dan bell for ed-committee meeting
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Luke- put sponsorship package on the committee page – hopefully people have some ideas of
what to change about it
d) Education Report
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Do student workshops on educational aspects. eg. Matlab, mathematica, solidworks -Allan do a
question on the UEC committee/club page
e) Social Report
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Trinity wants to give us free tickets to BNOC
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Maybe we can swap for free drinks instead?
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Kate to call and update us on it
f) Bogan Bingo
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Bogan Bingo – got them to rduce their price
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In order for it to go ahead we need $500 SPG grant
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Need to make it a fundraiser event and need to do it with another club
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Maybe Squash Club? PI? Kate contact Fraser Hall
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Do we want to change the event date? Relay wants that Friday
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Lucas - Look into Tav availability for Thursdays in Second semester
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If Bogan Bingo doesn’t happen we need substitute event – maybe “engineer your own event”
g) Committee Bonding
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This Friday
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BYO unless otherwise told – Lucas/Kate to keep us updated
h) Relay For Life
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i)
Cheaper price for camping spot
FIFO Mental Health Presentation
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Pushed back to next semester
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If anyone has any friend that do FIFO and would like to say something
j) Final Year Shirts
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Kaiden has sent an email – fabric bloke has to get back to him
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His email keeps returning the email (domain is not working) – Caitlin check this out
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We want to get a banner re-skinned – UniPrint price is $195 – Kaiden is going to look for better
prices
k) Fresher Study Night
l)
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Need as many people there as possible
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Tuesday night of last week
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Going to pair up with science union
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Committee thinks we should do it MILC
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Laura - Post up event info on committee page
Scholars and Schooners
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Allan - Tell Varsity to cater for 50 expect 30
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Change of date to the 27th May
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Now called “beers and engineers”
m) ECOMS Ball
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We are trying to get VIP Tables
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$180 a VIP ticket
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People only want a VIP table
n) Hoodie Designs
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Same design – but with a zipper
o) Money
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We have got some money - $4000
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Ben can pay back money’s
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We have paid back everyone and we still have money!
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Kate – send event budgets to ben
p) Law Debate Idea
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Blackstone are having a dinner debate
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Topic - “Where would the world be without lawyers”
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No go for this
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We want to do a banter-ish type event with banter
q) Committee Restructure
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Exec is currently looking into changing the committee structure
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Ed is going to have a restructure – there is a club for every discipke
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Ed reps to come from discipline clubs to our meetings
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Careers reps to help VP Careers
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2 Ed reps, postgrad and undergrad
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Want to change the constitution to so that people can’t promote themselves for elections
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We want an orientation director as a committee elected position
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Before committee bonding on Friday – informal semester review – feedback on your position,
constitution, how the semester has gone
r) Next Meeting
III.
IV.
M E E T I N G E ND : 3 : 0 0 P M
AC T I O N SU M M AR Y
Jeik
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Send VWE invites out to Ed-committee
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Give essential info to Dan bell for ed-committee meeting
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Put sponsorship package on the committee page for committee input about changes
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Post a question on the UEC committee/club page regarding potential tutorials for matlab,
mathematica, etc.
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Tell Varsity to cater for 50 but to expect 30 – also let them know about the date change to the 27th
May
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Call and update us on potential free tickets to BNOC
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Contact Fraser Hall about doing Bogan Bingo with PI
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Keep us updated on BYO status of Committee Bonding
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Send event budgets to ben
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Check why Kaiden’s UEC email address is not working properly
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Post Fresher Study Night Event info on committee page
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Look into Tav availability for Thursdays in Second semester (first few weeks)
Luke
Allan
Kate
Caitlin
Laura
Lucas
V.
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