11:00am
Attendance: Will, Dana, Bean, Peter, Melissa, Joanna, Penny, Rocio, Prof. Graves
Location: 205 Gilman Hall

Issues:

ChemE Keg

• GA funding applied for - possible date of Oct. 9

New Lounge

• Looks good
• Quite large - could be back up location for pizza party
• Is re-keyed to the "3" key

Orientation

• Panel - set up by Peter: representative from each class plus Will
• In 775B

NSF panel

• No room or date set
• No faculty member recruited yet
• Goal for end of September - after advisor presentations

GSI payment

• Will be discussed at faculty retreat on Friday - policies for future
• University has not responded yet - a rep was out of town
• The UAW contact person changed as well

Colloquium

• In the past, GSAC has invited speakers
• David Schaffer is coordinator for this fall - possibly Maboudian for the spring
• May be limited in funding from the department to bring in a speaker
• The Berkeley Lecture is this fall, which will not cheap
• Will be topic at retreat also

Prelims

• Design part has been dropped.
• Transport, Thermo, and Kinetics/reactions
• Design type questions can be asked in any exam
• Handbook is being updated

Qual

• Will be discussed at faculty retreat on Friday
• Limit number of power point slides
• Possibly reports get graded/approved before oral is scheduled
• May change requirements for when you take the exam
• Comments welcome on how QE is currently run (Talk to Graves before Friday)

Required Courses

• Proposal to reduce the number of required ChemE courses (possibly 3 or 2)
• Proposal to make electives more flexible
• Maybe make courses shorter (modular) - like chemistry

Meeting

• First Tuesday of the month at 11am