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Meeting of the Branch Executive Committee

Minutes for 2005-04-28

Time:	14:00-15:00
Venue:	PRL Meeting Room (level 4, Electrical & Electronic Engineering)

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Present

Jennifer Che (JC), Genevieve Coath (GC), Nishaanthan Nadarajah (NN), Masud Bakaul (MB)

Apologies

None.

Previous Minutes

The minutes of the previous meeting were accepted without modification.

Completed Action Points

Item Number	Description	Responsible Person	Date Completed
3.4	Sort our web access.	GC
3.5	Put statement into PDF and provide folder of receipts.	AL
4.2	Enquire at Western Union regarding a credit or debit card usable for IEEE student memberships.	MB
4.3	Contact IEAust for person to give presentation or to facilitate IEAust guest speakers.	GC

Open Items

Item Number	Description	Responsible Person	Due Date
4.4	Contact Stan Skafidas regarding giving talk (and also for his brief biography); the talk should be approximately 40 minutes with 30 minutes' question time. A tentative date is between May 16th - 20th. NN to look at timetables of MTE and Masters students to choose suitable date. The talk should cover the aspects mentioned to NN by other executive committee members.	NN	2005-05-05
5.1	Updates for website (i.e. seminars, events, etc).	NN	Ongoing
5.2	Pass updates on to NN as they come up.	JC	Ongoing
5.3	Check sources of funding (i.e. Department (Lynne Salter, for Telstra visit), UMPA, Faculty (for Telstra visit)).	MB	2005-05-04
5.4	Remind MB about funding opportunity closing dates.	NN	Ongoing
5.5	Put up posters advertising Telstra site visit.	NN	2005-04-29
5.6	Email NN ideas of topics to be covered in Stan Skafidas' Professional Development Seminar.	JC, GC, MB	2005-05-02
5.7	Talk to JP about preparing material for Unix workshop.	GC	2005-05-04
5.8	Find dates for mock-interview seminar.	JC	2005-05-06
5.9	Ask JP about updating committee email list.	GC	2005-05-04
5.10	Put new members' email addresses into Excel worksheet.	MB	2005-05-17

Proceedings

Present and apologies

See above.
Chair's report
- Report from IEEE Victorian Section meeting
Financial report
- We have recently received money from IEEE HQ in our account.
Branch Activities
1. Discovery Tour
  - Email notification and poster advertising are well underway.
2. MATLAB Workshop
  - JC enquired at the Bailleu Library regarding room booking and is waiting for a response.
  - There are currently no machines with MATLAB installed on them there.
  - The workshop will be held on May 24th, therefore advertising should start on May 9th at the latest, giving people 1.5 weeks to register.
  - Course material needs to be revised by May 13th.
  - A practice run will be undertaken after that.
3. Professional Development Seminar II
  - NN is organising the speaker and content; it should be a presentation of approximately 40 minutes' duration with a maximum of 30 minutes for questions.
4. Review of our future events
  - Unix workshop may be held later than June if there are few people to help organise it and the material.
  - A mock-interview session may be held depending on student interest, with industry employers taking part in helping students prepare for real-world job interviews.
5. Review of all meeting minutes
  
  See table above.

Meeting closed at 14:50.