April 25, 2007
Pipe Trades Training Center
780 Commercial Street
San Jose, CA 95112

Total Attendance: 19

General

President Barbara Roberts opened the meeting with introductions at 7:00 PM.

Committee Reports

Recap of E-Week Banquet (Elise)

• About 300 people attended. We were about $4000 short.
• We gave 4 scholarship awards.
• Michael Wright has a CD with photos. He will give this to Barbara. DJ Cline also has photos.
• IEEE members did not like having the table in a corner. IEEE would like to sponsor the banquet next year.
• Volunteers did a great job in organizing the banquet.
• We will work with next year’s banquet chair on table location and sponsorship.

Call for Nomination (Ron)

Ron is the Nominating Chair. He would like to get nominees by the end of May.

Fundraising (DJ Cline) STC suggested charging for job posting on the website. DJ Cline would like to get advice on fundraising ideas and corporate sponsorship. CompassPoint provides grant writing courses. We suggest having the grant writing workshop next year. There is a suggestion to have a 0.5 hour presentation in June for the workshop.

Engineers without Borders (Bill Nott)

• URL: http://www.ewb-usa.org
• There are over 7000 members worldwide. There are 550 projects mostly in the third world. Membership is growing at 50% a year. There is a student chapter at SJSU.
• Barbara suggests asking Engineers without Borders to join SVEC. We encourage Bill to apply in June.

MakerFaire

• To be held in San Mateo on May 19 Ð 20
• Elise is looking for volunteers.

Hall of Fame

• This is what we discussed in September.
• Felicita will find out the society that will be responsible for next year’s E-Week.
• KRS and Felicita suggest that the HOF committee should clearly specify the requirement for being at the E-Week banquet.
• Barbara will check with Steve Kang about this person’s availability.

January Council Meeting Minutes

• Motion: KRS to approve January meeting minutes
• Second: Manesh
• Approved unanimously

Society Announcements

• There is a new SWE program, Wow It’s Engineering, will be on May 19. The SWE scholarship banquet is coming up.
• Order of Engineer -- Chapter 130 is dissolving due to lack of membership.
• It will be the 100th anniversary for AIChe in 2008.
• IEMT Conference Oct 3 -- 5
• IEEE Nano App to Clean Energy and Water on July 17
• ASME seminar on April 28
• ASME symposium on Alternative Energy at Santa Clara University on May 12
• IP law seminar on May 29
• SME conference April 25, 2007
• IEEE EMC conference in June
• AFE facility management conference June 14 -- June 15

The meeting adjourns at 9:00 PM.

Next Council Meeting: June 27, 2007

Minutes submitted by Connie Fang
fang_connie@yahoo.com