As a group, we’re trying to do some pretty amazing things, and build a very complex system. We have a lot of intermeshing parts and several seperate groups of people working in parallel. While our “attack many challenges at once” approach to the system design allows for rapid progress to be made on many fronts, it presents the challenge of trying to stay up to date on progress and changes between different groups and different parts of the system. In order to facilitate good communication and understanding, I’m scheduling a general ISE meeting where we can get together to solve problems, provide our insight to other groups, and keep updated on overall system progress and performance. I understand we’re all very busy!!! The goal of this meeting is not to waste time, or take longer than we need to. I anticipate the meeting being an hour or less most weeks.
General Meeting Topics:
- ISE RSO considerations – most weeks we won’t need to discuss anything, but on occasion we will have to tackle an issue related to keeping our status as a WSU Registered Student Organization (RSO).
- ISE Website – It’s a good opportunity to make or suggest changes to our website – this will be the key to getting more public support (aka. donations of money or equipment) and public/university goodwill/interest.
- Group Progress – While everybody in each group doesn’t need to show up to each meeting, at least one person from each group should show up. A quick ~5min or less talk on the week’s progress will allow everyone to keep track of what’s happening. This is a good opportunity to ask fellow groups and engineers for help or ideas on challenges/problems your group is facing.
Because several ME 416 groups already seem to be meeting Saturdays, I’ve set up a survey to determine the time most people are available on Saturday. Please let me know with the form below when you’re free or if you’d prefer another day to meet: