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Bioengineering Organization Alliance (BOA)
First General Body Meeting of Fall 2011
Our new logo.
Bioengineering Organization Alliance
• Me• David Franz ([email protected])• Cell and Tissue Concentration• Graduating this semester
• You• Highest ACT scores of all engineering departments at UIC.• Smallest student-to-faculty ratio in the CoE.• Small student population, not large faculty population
• 85% of UIC students are commuters
About Me, About You
BOA
Social
Knowledge
Creativity
Academic Volunteer
Research
Networking
The BOA Vision
• Not Cannabis Cigarettes• Membership Forms
• Membership is good until end of Summer 2012• $10 fee covers: Food for meetings, social events, t-shirts, prizes, various program
necessities.
• GBM Sign-in Sheet– Include your desired T-shirt size!
• Committee Sign-Up Sheets• Intramurals Sign-Up Sheet• BOA Surveys• BOA Credits
What’s Being Passed Around
BOA Credits
• Prize is given to the one student who contributes the most towards the progress and impact of BOA each month.
• A personalized certificate.• Featured in a GBM
meeting.• Possible short confetti
celebration
BOA Member of the Month
Excelsior
Websiteboa.pages.uic.edu
Social Media and BOA on the Interwebs
@BOAatUICfacebook.com/boa.uic [email protected]
• About 10% of BIOEs have an updated UIC Careers account.• What are you missing out on?
– Baxter Info Session / Interviews (Position: Intern)• Oct. 10th (Info Session on campus) • Oct. 11th (Interviews on campus)• Can only attend Info Session if you are approved for an interview.• Deadline to submit application: September 27, 2011
– Zoll Medical Co-op for Spring 2012• Deadline to submit application: Sep 30, 2011
– Hospira Co-op for Spring 2012• Deadline to submit application: Oct 29, 2011
Jobs/Internships/Co-ops through UIC Careers
Secretary of BOA
Work with all members on the BOA Board
Make copies of the agenda for all board members
Organize tasks for the Board
Take notes during executive meetings
Keep track of membership lists, forms, and fees
Print/display flyers and advertise GBM—work with Reps
Open Source Laboratory Program (OSLP)
coming soon…
Will Schulenberg
• Undergraduate Research Assistant (URA)
• Laboratory courses (BioE 431, 456, 476)
Two ways to get lab experience…
• Chicken and egg
• You are not in charge
• Limited availability
URA
Hans VanderMad, a bioengineering undergrad at UIC who was denied a research position for the 6th time.
• BioE 431 at end of junior year
• Two semesters, at maximum
• Have to follow curriculum
Lab Courses
• Opening up the two teaching labs for use by BOA members
• Work on your own projects on your own time
• Exercise compilations
• Knowledgeable lab monitors
• Forums for organizing study groups and project teams
Enter, OSLP…
The Vision
With OSLP
Without OSLP
We need you!
Next committee meeting: Thursday, September 8th at 5pm in SEO 236
Contact: Will Schulenberg, [email protected]
Committee Meeting
Bioengineering Volunteering Program (BVP)
Sasidhar Madugula
BVP History
BMES/BOA Volunteering Program Initial Groundwork (2008 – 2011)– High School Committee (2008 – 2010) – EBE Division
origins– Volunteering Program (2009 – 2011) – COP Division origins
• BMES and BOA
Birth of BVP (2011 to ∞)!– EBE (High School Outreach)– IBE (High School Experience At UIC Bioe Labs)– COP (BOA members/Bioe students participation in community
outreach)
BVP Strategy of Success
BVP Progression– YES YOU CAN!
Commitment for BVP’s crucial groundwork is essential!– Plan– Initiate– Divide & Conquer• Based on self-interest of the different divisions;
Questions, Ideas, Comments or Suggestions
– Contact the Director – Sasidhar Madugula ([email protected])
BVP E-Board Crew
Director – Sasidhar Madugula ([email protected])EBE/IBE Director – Salman Farooqui ([email protected])COP Director – Karan Kerwell ([email protected])BVP Advisor – Sagar Nadimpalli ([email protected])
Engineering World Health (EWH)
Vishal Varma
Our Mission:Mobilize the biomedical engineering community to improve the quality of health care in
vulnerable communities of the developing world.
The Past:EWH Kit Building – Great success due to all your help and participation.
The Now:EWH Design Teams
The Goal of EWH Design Teams:• Design a cost effective, globally applicable medical device• Build prototype of the proposed device after design approval• Make accessible 'building-kits' for the device once EWH has approved the device for
global use.
Engineering World Health (EWH) Director: Vishal Varma
Who should take part in EWH? EVERYONE!
Regardless of year and major, you are a valuable asset to your team.Graduates and Undergraduates both provide valuable input.The word engineer is derived from a Latin root meaning "to create".As Bioengineers, I highly encourage you to participate.
Where does your effort go?Your work on these projects will make a difference in millions of lives around
the world.End result: Your device will be shipped to developing countries improving
healthcare for thousands.
Engineering World Health (EWH) Director: Vishal Varma
Design Teams research, design,
and create prototypes.
Get prototype manufactured into
kits.
Have high school students assemble
kits.
Engineering World Health (EWH) Director: Vishal Varma
How EWH works
This Fall and Spring Next Summer Next Spring and Fall
Prototype
Manufacture
Assemble Kits
EWH Collaboration• Collaboration with OSLP for lab space and project
expansion• Collaboration with BVP to get kits to high schools
Alpha Eta Mu Beta (AEMB)
President: Mounika Kata Vice President: Nikhil Bommakanti
• Email us: [email protected], [email protected]• Stay in touch with us via Facebook, Twitter, or Google Plus• Feel free to approach us with any questions and/or concerns
Contact Information
What is AEMB?
• Alpha Eta Mu Beta – National Biomedical Engineering Honor Society
• Recognizes top ranked juniors and seniors for outstanding academic achievement
• Provides networking opportunities and further opportunities to continue civic engagement
• Invitations extended to students excelling in academics, civic engagement, and leadership
• Members will be recognized as follows:• Events: Banquets, Initiation ceremonies, etc.• On transcript and at graduation• On BOA website
• Members will be able to attend annual conferences
Recognition
• Are you eligible?• Juniors who have obtained a grade point
average in the top one-fifth of the junior class and seniors who have achieved a grade point average in the top one- third of the senior class are eligible for active membership• Candidates must have completed at least six credit
hours of BioE courses• To maintain membership, complete at least 10 events
Eligibility Requirements and Membership Maintenance
Activities Program
Hamza Senalan
Social events for bioengineers to network, relax, and simply have fun during the grind of each semester.
On-Campus activities (Weekly)
Off-Campus activities (Monthly)
Activities
Body Worlds Millennium Park Ice Skating Six Flags
UIC is a commuter school.
Activities and social events act as the glue
that holds BOA together; the lowest
common denominator of all BOA members.
Paintballing
Game Nights
You have an outlet to meet and interact with fellow bioengineers of all levels. You will be among peers that have done what you are currently doing that will be able to offer help and guidance!
Activities
Homework HelpBooks
Inside Scoop on:-Which classes to take
-Which professors to take-Research opportunities
-MS/BS guidance
BOA Yoda
-Bioengineering Bazaar- BOA news, events, and opportunities- Exciting science, medical, and engineering news- Interesting trivia, facts, puzzles, or quotes to
-Collaborate with Bioengineering Student Journalto showcase a student publication each month
GET YOUR WORK ON THE MAP!!!- Handed out to all BOA members at General Body Meetings- Copies available in the BioE office for anyone passing by to pick up- Digital copies displayed on BOA's website (boa.pages.uic.edu).We are also setting up a type of RSS News Feed on the website where committee members
can instantly stream any interesting links they come across with a few clicks of their mouse.
Activities: Newsletter Committee
Tutoring Coordinator
Nairyna Constantino
• Provides students with extra resources• Gives students the opportunity to have a
one-one tutoring session with other BIOE students
• Tutors will have already taken these courses which provides with a better insight on how to succeed in the class
• Can begin to meet other Bioe students• Most important: getting help so that you can
enjoy your Bioengineering classes at UIC• Tutoring Calendar and Survey on Website
Binder-Binder system
Director of Funds
Kathleen Broughton
• 2011 – 2012 Budget
• Roll-over and Department• Potential Fundraising Opportunities
• Funding Supports:
• AEMB• BVP• EWH• OSLP• Activities• Tutoring• General Body Meetings and Others• Awards, Prizes, and Apparel
Director of Funds Duties
Who are we?
• We are YOUR liaison with BOA• If you have any concerns, comments, questions, or
suggestions … let us know!• These can be about BOA , BioE, or just life in
general • We will try our best to take your input and use it to
create a BOA that works for you• We will also be the main people contacting you
about various general BOA info including about GBM times
• Email either of us or [email protected]• Facebook : Add BOA at UIC and Like Bioengineering
Organizational Alliance • Twitter: Follow @BOAatUIC• Google plus : Add BOA UIC to your circles• Phone: 847-886-9575 call / text • We will use all these accounts to try to be available to and
reach as many of you as possible!• Depending on how many people are interested, we will start
a texting notification system to remind people of events
Stay in touch with us!
• In addition to using our various online accounts for communication, we will also be using them as discussion forums, posting things like:• Question of the day• Fun facts• Tips• Links
• Contribute!! You can get credit for it • Don’t hesitate to post your own stuff!• Will have a prize for most active online member in the end
Online Forums
Suggestion Box
• You can always contact one of us anytime about anything • We will keep your suggestions /questions private if you so
desire• However, if you still feel • awkward..• Anonymously drop off• comments in our suggestion box!• We will bring it to meetings• Or it will be in the BioE Office• Feel fry to add a comment, concern, or suggestion,
whenever!
• Do you live in the suburbs?• Do you commute via car?• Carpool with other BOA members to save gas!• Who knows? You could even make lasting friends • Sign up to either drive or ride on our Carpooling Flyer• If you signed up to ride, contact willing driver who
lives by you • And you are good to go! • Be eco friendly and make the commute more fun!
Carpooling
• One on one mentor/mentee program for undergraduates• Freshmen/Sophomores – Sign up to be Mentees• Juniors/Seniors – Sign up to be Mentors• We will contact you asking you to fill out a info form• i.e: gender, concentration, interests, location, etc..
• We will match pairs based on the answers• We will encourage/facilitate frequent contact between pairs• There will be a monthly meeting for pairs to mingle• Sign up to receive more info and be informed of when meetings
are !
Undergraduate Big Brother Big Sister Program
• Open Art program!• Submit any type of art to [email protected] all semester long• i.e: sketches, paintings, 3D things, poetry, videos,
digital shorts, etc• Displayed on: hallways, website, display screens, etc.• Deadline is the Friday before the last week of classes• Top 3 pieces of art will receive Amazon gift cards!
BioE Art Program
• First mini contest:• Design a logo for the BVP program
• Second mini contest:• Design a logo for the OSLP Program
• Deadline: The week before finals!
BioE Art Program Contest
Graduate Representative
Arman Butt
Big/Little “Sibling” Program
To assist undergraduates in the planning of future academic and career decisions
Lab tours
Need graduate volunteersNeed undergraduates who need [email protected]
– Graduates should tell me their expertise– Undergraduates should tell me their needs
