PSEC at Razzis
Started at 6:00 pm
Attendees
Luis Leon ASMI
Sam Gheesling ASME
Andrew Gall SME
Paul Grant ASCE
John Schaufellberger WSPE
Kaz IISE
Alexander Benson SME
M Torres Arbildo SHPE
Approval of June Meeting Minutes
None published
Around the Room
AIAA: Patrick, Report ?
ASMI: Luis, 17 Sep Michael Nivinski, friction Stir welding and spin forming 2050 alloy
SAMPE: Tiffany,CAMX second week Sep, mtg 22 Oct at Ivars
WSPE: John, planning a tour of Climate Pledge Arena
ASME: Sam, Board mtg 10 Sep
ASCE: Paul, Year start turnover, getting organized
ASHRAE: Kathi, update needed
SME: Andrew and Alexander, NW roundtable 7 Nov, tour of Fluke 8 Nov
SAE: George, No update
INCOSE: Paul van Tulder, no update
IEEE: Dave, No update
IISE: Kaz, UW new department chair, will resume Engineering Fair
SWE: Tiffany, FY25 planning complete
SEAW: Mike, no update
SHPE: Torres, Genesis BBQ new member event, scheduling mentoring at SU and Edmonds
reps@pseconline.org is our distribution list
Treasurers Report
Dave
§ We lost money on both the Banquet ($4463) and Engineering Fair ($870)
§ This is not sustainable, Andrew to write up budget from the two events and send to the team to consume for next meeting. Likely need to charge more for banquet and engineering fair.
§ Engineering fair can benefit from better planning as well, obtain more paying sponsors Action Andrew
* Planning for 2024/25
* Sam/Andrew requested 2025 (Boeing) Sponsorship, follow up this summer
§ Tiffany requested funds from Crane, Alexander (SME) from Kenworth
Engineering 2025 Banquet
* April 26th 2025, Museum of Flight penciled in
* Already Asked for Boeing $’s/Crane $’s
Alex is asking from Kenworth,
can we ping some of the construction/structural firms (Paul)?
* Lost $6k Last Year
* Andrew to send out budget to propose higher cost tables for next year, investigate ways to conserve $’s
* Nominations are due on February 21st
* 2024 Raised Price $100 single, $120 Late, $900 table, $1200 table late (late is after April 21st)
* Banquet photos available, Dave loaded to the drop box
Engineering Fair
* Need someone to shadow for 2025
*. Note from Rom at ASCE:
Popsicle Bridge competition scheduled for 1 Mar 2025
Co-chairs are Tulsi Chudgar and Sarah Gillespie. They welcome questions
Mentor nights
Seattle U: Andrew
* Andrew made contact with Kiyana Higa. She promised to email with dates and sign up links
Green River: Luis
* Luis made contact with Alex Martinez. He recommended November and requested that PSEC provide a list of best dates
North Seattle College: Andrew, need new contact, old moved to UW Seattle AA
Seattle Central: last Thursday in January 2025
Shoreline: Andrew, need new contact
Edmonds – Next year, Tiffany sent out follow-up email
Tacoma Community College: Luis/Kaz, they are going to join at Highline missed it Andean Farella (sp)
WSU – Everett: Tiffany, Tiffanie’s contacts (Orego, Camille”
UW Bothell EV Club is asking for help, see separate email.
Highline is asking for help see separate email.
UW Main Campus upcoming opportunities for career events:
Andrew:
FYI on UW engineering career events that we maybe able to support with mock interviews and resume reviews.
From Kaz
10/1 – BIG 10 Women in Computing Exchange (VIRTUAL)
10/3 – Allen School Industry Affiliates Recruiting Fair
10/8 – ENGINEERING HIRING EXPO [This is the main one!]
10/9 – Fall Job & Internship Fair
10/10 – Foster 2024 Supply Chain Career Fair (This is new. Might need to check with Foster to see if ISE students can attend.)
10/16 – Civil & Environmental Engineering Career Fair
10/23 – Fall Job & Internship Fair (VIRTUAL)
10/29 – Construction Management Career Expo
Additionally, the Career Center has prep workshops upcoming in September. 9/17, 12:30 –1:30 Resumes and 9/19, 12:30-1:30 Career Fair Strategies. They will message students about these events next week.
ISOW
* Intro who you are, what are your best practices and biggest challenges?
* Recruiting
* Best Practices advisory boards at Universities
* IISE is on advisory boards
* Converting from Student into professional organizations
* ASCE Young engineering group, Mr. Kasper to talk young engineers
* How do we bolster the on campus support
* Why should a young member join a professional organization?
* Sharing calendars, what are the needs of each society
* Low Cost High Reward Events
* More joint events
Officers
We need volunteers on our board
This year’s PSEC Officers slate is:
Past President: Kathy Shoemake
President: Andrew Gall
Treasurer: David Butcher
Secretary: George Bondor
Still looking for
President Elect
Need a webmaster
Need Engineering Fair chair
K-12 Activities Chair
Meeting ended at 7:00 pm
Next meeting 7 Oct 2024 at Razzis