ASME Meeting Minutes
Monday, November 3, 2008
Hopeman 224
Attending: Joni, Dave Simpson, Marc, Trevor, Eric, Colleen
Pumpkin Launch Wrap-Up
- Winners:
- 1st
Place – Baja (still needs reward money)
- 2nd
Place – Swimmers (still need reward money)
- 3rd
Place – Livonia (paid)
- Changes
for next year
- Sales
- Only
2 gallons of cider
- Not
so much popcorn (return extra bag and grease)
- Look
into a flex machine
- Rules
- Keep
same dimensions
- Minimum
of 30 ft in the air
- No
hangtime
- 1st
2 shots – purely distance
- 2nd
2 shots – accuracy (use stakes instead of the hula hoops and measure
distance from the stake)
- Prelim
again – guaranteed spot in competition only if come to prelims
- Set
up time limits for shooting so that the competition goes faster
- Scoring
– set up a master score keeper and table (simplify scoring)
- Shops
- ASME
now owns wood saw and drill? (in office?)
- Talk
to Scott and Professor Li about other lab/shop options and storage space
for next year (possibly expanding Baja into fluids lab and utilizing the
Hopeman shop)
- Co-sponsor
with departments with good shops – Physics, BME
- Start
in January recruiting corporate or other sponsorship
- Use
walkie talkies to coordinate (borrow from Baja)
- Thank
you letters – Marc and Joni
- Judges
- UR
Parking
- High
Schools
- UR
Security
- Stacey
Fisher
- Food
Permit people
- Anyone
else we can think of
- Shirts
– Pumpkin Launch shirts still for sale for $10 in the ME office through
Renee
Internship Descriptions
- Email
descriptions of recent internships to Carla so that she can update the
website (most recent now posted are from 1994!)
Winter Social events
- Trevor
and Eric organize
- Ice
skating, sledding
Roast
- Pick a
date (around April Fool’s Day)
- March
27
- April
3
- April
10 is bad because day before Rambler’s concert, and April 17 is during
the Baja competition
- Possibly
videotape (for Eric!)
- Location
– maybe at the Brooks Landing hotel (across the river), but then cannot
use declining for tickets