The document summarizes announcements from a general Engineering Council meeting. It lists societies currently on suspension and the consequences. It then outlines announcements from various officer positions regarding upcoming events like EXPO, awards, social events, and the Knights of St. Patrick. Funding presentations are given for various conference attendance requests and society events. A new robotics society and synthetic biology research team request instatement. Finally, there is a constitutional amendment vote regarding changes to the EXPO director position.

1. general meeting September1st, 2010

2. Societies on Suspension IGVRT NOBCChE SGT SWIP* SME Synton *Currently eligible to come off of suspension Suspension means loss of all EC benefits, including funding and awards. Stay off of suspension by coming to general meetings!

3. Officer Announcements Vice President EXPO Awards Publicity Social Knights .

4. Vice President Zach Tratar (vp@ec.uiuc.edu) E-Night Feedback so far: Less Rain, More Pizza More feedback? Update Executive Member Contact List

7. Committee Member of the Month

8. Society Member of the Month

9. Society of the Month

10. Check Awards Website for Deadlines and Applications

11. http://awards.ec.uiuc.edu

13. Social Courtney O’Connor (social@ec.uiuc.edu) Tailgate: - September 11th - Free Food! - Games Look out for flyers with the time and location Charity Golf Scramble Tournament: - Sunday October 10th - Top 3 teams donate to charity of their choice - Prizes - Free Food There will be sign-up sheets online at http://social.ec.uiuc.edu

14. Knights of St. Patrick 2010 Marlo Goldstein KSP 2010-2011 Chair

15. KSPOverview History of the Knights Significance at UIUC Nomination Process Important Dates Knights Tradition

16. Significance at UIUC Started in 1950 at Illinois 8– 15 juniors and seniors chosen who demonstrate: Leadership Academic Excellence Exceptional Contribution and Devotion to the College of Engineering One of the Highest Honors in the College

17. Nomination Process Each of the Following Receive Two Nominations: EC Societies in Good Standing Each Department Head Deans & Assistant Deans Nomination Pool

18. Important Dates 10/6/2010: Nomination packets distributed at General Meeting 10/22/2010: Society presidents must email name(s) of nominee(s) to mgoldst3@illinois.edu 10/25/2010: Nomination pool open – must email additional names to KSP chair

19. Important Dates 11/16/2010: Applications due by 5pm, 103c Engineering Hall 1/22/2011: Interviews with committee February 2011: Class of 2011 Knights announced 3/12/2011: Knights of St. Patrick Ball

20. Traditions at UIUC Knighting Ceremony – Ball after EOH Pranks Take place from when Knights are announced to night before EOH Service Project

21. Questions? Marlo Goldstein mgoldst3@illinois.edu

22. Funding Presentations Conference Fund Program Fund

23. Conference Fund Bridge to China Tau Beta Pi ASEE NSBE Material Advantage ASME

24. Paomaping Village Bridge Construction Presented by Chuan Li of Illinois Bridge to China Team

25. About 300 farmers and 48 schoolchildren need to cross this river

26. Participants Total of 60 volunteers 33 from China (2 professionals) 20 from Hong Kong (4 professionals) 1 from Taiwan 6 from US (1 UIUC Staff)

28. Thank you, EC, for help making this trip possible.

29. Tau Beta Pi District 8 Conference Tau Beta Pi – Illinois Alpha Chapter

30. About When: April 9-10, 2010 Where: University of Illinois - Chicago Why: To strengthen IL-A and encourage communication among chapters.

32. Projects

33. Initiation process

34. Member involvement

35. Training for executive board transition

36. Semester overview

37. Important dates

39. Pictures

40. American Society for Engineering EducationNational Conference Report Thomas Frankie - PresidentBrian Schertz - Vice PresidentElizabeth LeMay - Secretary

41. ASEE 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Thank you for providing EC funding for the ASEE 2010 Annual Conference. The ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition is committed to fostering the exchange of ideas, enhancing teaching methods and curriculum, and providing prime networking opportunities for engineering and technology educations.

42. ASEE 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition In attendance: six student chapter officers & members (5 GRAD, 1 UG) Members attended informational presentations and group discussions Elizabeth LeMay gave presentation on starting a local ASEE chapter

43. ASEE 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition The ASEE Student Chapter appreciates the EC funding for the ASEE 2010 Annual Conference The ASEE Student Chapter will continue to engage Illinois students in engineering education discussion/topics

44. NSBE UIUC

45. 2010 National Conference Toronto

46. We won Most Well Networked and Programs of the Year and also had a team compete in an academic tech bowl

47. Our chapter help put on an informal Science fair for some of the kids in Toronto.

48. Science, Engineering, and Technology Congressional Visit Days

49. Overview April 28-29, 2010 in Washington D.C. Brought awareness to the funding of science and technology Attended seminars regarding current funding Promoted the America COMPETES Act Met Rep. Bill Foster and aides of Rep. Tim Johnson and Sen. Dick Durbin

50. More Pictures…

51. Thank You EC!!!

52. By: American Society of Professional Engineers April 8-10, 2010 St. Louis University Student Professional Development Conference

53. St.Louis University 3 days of events (social and professional) Purpose 2 entrants in the Old Guard Oral Competition Communication on hosting upcoming conference Network with national speakers and other chapters The Conference

54. Competition Results First place in oral competition Third place in “student section competition” Information for upcoming conference Plans to enter future design competition What Happened

56. Program Fund BMES HKN

57. BMES & ANSPaintballing Biomedical Engineering Society

58. The What April 10th 2010 1:30 PM Paintballing with ANS 22 in attendance 12 BMES 10 ANS

59. PURPOSE Develop a working relationship with ANS RESULT Hoping to plan another event with ANS this year Also were are going to try to lose less footwear this year… Mud+Untied Shoes=wearing socks the rest of the day

60. Photo

61. HKN Initiate Barbecue Alpha Chapter April 1st, 2010

62. What was it? One of the many initiate events run each semester. Groups of initiates work with members to organize events. Initiates planned and ran a lunch stand. Took place in between Eng Hall and Everitt.

63. What Happened? Initiates learned organization and teamwork skills. Helped provide exposure for HKN and let people know what we do. Cheap lunch for everyone!

64. THANKS EC!!!!!!

65. New Society Instatement

67. Mission Illinois Robotics Organization serves to bring together students of different disciplines at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to partake in the education and research of the multi-disciplinary field of Robotics. IRO's main purpose is to be an organization without a particular departmental home; a middle ground for all engineers and non-engineers who are interested in Robotics.

68. On Campus Projects Workshops Seminars/Lectures http://www.emeraldinsight.com/content_images/fig/0490340104005.png

69. Representing Competitive robotics teams representing University of Illinois http://www.boston.com/cars/newsandreviews/overdrive/2010/01/12/Landshark-bomb-sniffing-robot.jpg

70. Community STEM education FIRST Robotics FIRST Lego League 4H Robotics Robotics/Technology Awareness

71. Undergraduate Synthetic Biology Research Undergraduate Synthetic Biology Research Team International Genetically Engineered Machines

75. Constitution UpdateVote

76. EXPO Constitutional Changes Andrew Zwicky (president@ec.uiuc.edu) Constitutional Amendment 2010.09.01.1 Introduces Co-Corporate Director Distributes workload among two directors Does not change funding structure Each Co-Corporate Director will serve for two EXPOs There will be an additional election at the October General Meeting following Fall EXPO to replace the departing Director