6 What are the start and end dates of your school year ? August 2010- May 2011 7 When does your chapter hold elections? The meeting before last of the semester. 8 How many declared chemical engineering students are in your department? Please give individual totals for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Freshmen: 26 Sophomores: 25 Juniors: 43 Seniors: 43 9 How many members does your student chapter have? Please give individual numbers for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Freshmen: 13, Sophomores: 20, Juniors: 34, Seniors: 43 10 Please list chapter board positions and whether these were filled this year by a (s)enior or (u)nderclassmen (please include Juniors as underclassmen for this). (max 300 char) Fall: President (s) Vice President (s) Secretary (u) Treasurer (u) Spring: President (u) President Elect (u) Secretary (u) Treasurer (u) 11 Excluding officer/board Meetings are twice a month (or every
meetings, how many times a month does your chapter hold meetings and events? What is the average attendance? other week). Events vary but are at least once a month. Average meeting attendance: 42 Average event attendance: 15 12 Which meetings/events draw the largest student attendance and why? (max 300 char) The general meetings drew the largest student attendance. By incorporating free food, extra credit, games and prizes into the meetings we saw a more consistent and higher number of attendance. 13 What are your most effective methods of recruiting new members each year? (max 300 char) Speaking to the introductory chemical engineering classes about the free food, extra credit, games and prizes gets the most attention. Also pushing members to talk to their classmates who they know aren't members to get them to join. 14 What are your most effective methods of fundraising each year? (max 300 char) We have corporate sponsors that support us every year. We have written letters to them in the past and
or doing science demonstrations are always the most effective. 19 What are your most effective open house/outreach activities each year? (max 300 char) We have several schools come and visit the Chemical Engineering Department every year and we plan and perform demonstrations where they can see a fun side to engineering and learn a lot at the same time. 20 Do you participate in any activities/meetings with your section? If so, please list the year's activities, and the name of your primary contact in your local section (max 300 char). No; there is not a local chapter in our city. 21 What are your most effective means of communicating with your chapter members? Email and posters are helpful but our facebook page is by far the most effective. 22 What percentage of meetings does your chapter advisor attend? How many faculty members besides the chapter 95%. 1 faculty member will usually attend the meetings. We have "Advising parties" each semester with the
advisor typically attend your meeting/events? If you have any faculty/student events, please list these and indicate their success. faculty and the students where the students are able to get advised and eat free food without having to make an appointment to see their advisor in person. It works very well and is always a success. 23 Is there an overall knowledge of benefits your students receive with AIChE national membership? Please describe what has helped/would help increase this knowledge. (max 300 char) Yes there is an overall knowledge of the benefit from speaking about them in meetings. Being able to see what these benefits in a more personal way would be helpful. 24 What national benefit do your members find the most useful? Perry's Online Handbook. 25 Please describe how useful the content and timing of communications from the national office was this year. What would improve these communications? (max 300 char) Communication from the national office was just fine this year. Noticies of important dates and deadlines were well communicated to us. 26 Did you receive a chapter visit from a No we did not, although this would
national representative this year? If yes, how was it useful? If no, do you think this is something that would be useful and how? (max 300 char) be very beneficial to us. 27 Did your chapter send members to the 2010 Annual Student Conference in Salt Lake City, UT? If so, how many students? If not, what are some reasons? Yes, we sent 10 members. 28 Does your chapter plan to send members to the 2011 Annual Student Conference in Minneapolis, MN? Yes. 29 How many chapter members attended the 2011 Regional Student Conference? 6 30 If your chapter attended a regional or national AIChE Conference, what information and ideas were most beneficial/useful? The information that we found most useful this year was how to see how to host the Regional AIChE conference, in preparation for when we host it.
31 Did your chapter participate in the regional or national Chem-E-Car Competition? If no, why not? No, we did not have enough memeber interest. 32 If your chapter participates in the Chem-E-Car Competition, was your team able to complete the safety training and addtional paperwork without substantial difficulty? If there were problems, please describe. No, we did not have enough interest from our members and therefore did not have the man power to participate. 33 If your chapter has a Chem-E-Car team, what is the name and e-mail address of your Chem-E-Car advisor? N/A 34 Does your chapter advisor nominate a student for the Sophomore Academic Excellence Award / Freshman Recognition Award? If so, which award(s). Yes; both. 35 How many of your graduating seniors are going into Approximately 50% of our graduating seniors are going to
grad/professional school? grad/professional school. 36 Did the chapter or students participate in other AIChE award programs? Which? (e.g. Nat. Student Design Competition, Outstanding Student Chapter Award, Regional/Nat. Paper Competition, etc.) Two members received the Outstanding Freshman and Sophomore Awards. One member received the Othmer Scholarship. Our Jeopardy team was the runner up at Nationals. Our chapter received the Outstanding Student Chapter Award. 37 Is your chapter aware of the SACHE Certificate Program? If so, how did you advertise it? (max 500 char) Yes; some classes participated in it as part of the classwork. 38 What are two or three areas in which your chapter excels? (max 500 char) High attendance of general meetings, fun socials, and community service. 39 In what area could your chapter most stand to improve? What plans are there to make this area better next year? (max 500 char) Even though we have high participation in meetings, community service, and socials there is always room for improvement. We have and plan to continue a welcome to suggestions policy. Members are constantly asked and