ASME St Louis Section Executive Board Meeting

March 13th, 2008

Attendees

Follow-up List (all items listed by owner - due date - action item)

Discussion

  1. 1. Treasurer’s Report – Approved. Donations from members received from ASME for total of $906.
  2. Secretary’s Report - Report approved for 2/12 meeting.
  3. Program Report
    1. 3/11 Nanotech. Event successful with 17 attendees. Interesting content and good presentation by speaker.
    2. 3/25 Cadbury-Schweppes tour. Everything set up with contact at facility. Duane will be sending out brief newsletter tomorrow with details. John Keplinger is event captain.
    3. 4/16 Tour of SLU Research Bldg. Need to add “limit of 25 people” to add 1-page announcement. Also need to add either compass onto existing map or get Mapquest/GoogleMaps to newsletter. Everything else good to go into announcement.
    4. May – Group tickets for Grizzlies game. Angela Berring is event captain.
  4. Student Section Visits
    1. UMR - Tom Mull has set up event for 4/9. Don’t have adequate volunteer – if you are interested, email Tom!
    2. WU - Event on March 4th had good turnout from student section (~15 students). Blizzard prevented some of the parent section volunteers from showing, but saw interest from previously inactive members to participate.
    3. SIUE - Jim Campbell (no update)
    4. SIUC - Alan Pilch (no update)
    5. SLU - Sridhar Condoor (no update)
    6. Combined event - Not going to have it this year.
  5. Nominating Committee - All nominees have accepted their roles for next year.
  6. Received $906 in donations as described above. Still don’t know where section Allocation check is – possibly lost in the mail? Ravi has sent email to central ASME person responsible for cutting merit-based funding check.
  7. Leadership Training Conference
    1. Sam described new points scale for determining score for merit funding
    2. Ravi attended discussion on Young Engineer’s forum to be held in November 2008. Plan is to webcast this discussion to all section. Some kind of financial incentive to be provided by national. Ravi will send out details when the group distributes email with further information (4-22).
    3. Reimbursement. Sam will submit expense report when completed to national ASME for LTC expenses. Section will reimburse any expenses Sam incurred that are beyond national ASME limit. Ravi will issue payment to himself for his expenses (total of $796.10).
    4. Over 90% of events the main topic was how to engage section membership better. Seems like a common theme across all sections.
  8. Newsletter - Need to add list of new officers to newsletter. Will be combined with Line Item #9 to create combined March-. Mary will follow-up with Duane to get any other info needed so we can send out newsletter tomorrow (3-14).
  9. Special Announcement of March 25th Tour – Will be combining with 1-page announcement of April 16th event. Duane to send out Friday 3/14
  10. Round Table - None.
    1. We need to make date/time of board meeting more visible on website. John K will request Alan to start putting this on the website (3-14).

    Next Executive Board Meeting is Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at Laclede Street Bar and Grill