06Feb2020 Minutes

Call To Order

An Engineering meeting of the OC Engineering club, was held on Febuary 6th, 2020. The meeting convened at 3pm, called to order by Dylan Jensen, in the library basement, room 001. President Raymond Simpson presiding, Dylan Jensen, vice president, and Yuval Martin(Officer).

Members in attendance

Raymond Simpson
Yuval Martin
Dylan Jensen
Joel Martin
Naomi-Lynn Miller
Kevin Richardson
Jess Macinko
Justin Pipkins
Cameron Zimmerman
Eric Ma
Isaac Ferraro

Old business

Advertising/Recruitment

Raymond asked Naydene, Director of Tutoring at OC, about advertising the RobotX program and the Engineering Club in the tutoring center. Results discussed in New Business

Business Cards

Are still on the list to be acquired

Club Logo

Isaac Volunteered to try and design a logo using vector graphics.

Current EE Club Project: Holonomic Drive Robot

Team Members discussed design implementation and ideas both in meeting and outside of meeting

Dean Communication

Dean still has not contacted any Engineering Club representative.
Likely won't need to speak to him about funding, just to keep him in the loop.

Acquisition of New Meeting Room

SGOC is responsible for assigning rooms to clubs, will need to discuss at next Club Congress, dated for Tuesday, 11th of February
Need room to be able to handle planned members, and also to securely store large amounts of valuable materials necessary for the RobotX project.

New business

Introduction of New Members to RobotX Project

RobotX project scope, overview, wiki. and benefits was presented to new members Justin, Cameron, Isaac, Eric, and Jess.

Recruitment Efforts in Tutoring Center

Naydene, Director of Tutoring, approved us for putting flyers and posters in the tutoring center, but no usage of the whiteboards in the room as originally planned
- UPDATE: Naydene apparently does not care

Positions in Club

Brief discussion of the future need for a Treasurer and a Property Manager

Communication with local highschool robotics teams

Dialogues with the local robotics teams are being made to bring in a fresh stream of recruits for future RobotX participants

Communication with ASME and IEEE at WSU

Jess mentioned that with the IEEE reaching out to highschool robotics teams, there would be a good opportunity to also create a dialogue with them
Have a smooth transition from highschool robotics team to OC Engineering Club to WSU Engineering Clubs

Next Meeting

Next meeting planned in 2 weeks, February 20th.

Approval of minutes

Motion was made by Raymond Simpson, and seconded to approve the minutes of the 06FEB2020 meeting. Motion carried.

Adjournment

The meeting was officially adjourned at 1600. Respectfully Submitted by Raymond Simpson, Joel Martin, Dylan Jensen, and Yuval Martin