Saturday, April 12th,The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at UCR, in association with the Boy Scouts of America, hosted its 3rd Merit Badge Day for Boy Scout Troops to earn Merit Badges in Electronics, Electricity, Computers, and Engineering. 
This is IEEEs third Merit Badge Day within a year.

Saturday, April 12th, SWE hosted annual Space Science and Engineering Day. SSED is normally held in the Fall but had been postponed to Spring for Wow! That's Engineering? This years SSED included Q&A session with Astronaut Alvin Drew and NASA Planetary Scientist Dr. Jennifer Heldmann.

When: Monday, January 28th at 5PM

Where: EBU II 102 [LC Room]

Who: All student organizations need to be represented at this meeting.

What: We will be designating time slots and starting advertisement for each organization's event.

Contact Katie Peterson if NOBODY from your organization can make it.

Bourn's College of Engineering Leadership Council would like to welcome Jun Wang, Professional Development Officer, as their new advisor. We look forward to collaborating with him and the college throughout the upcoming academic year.

Contact: Jun Wang - junwang@engr.ucr.edu
Professional Development Officer
Bourns College of Engineering, A-143
Phone: (951) 827 - 2708

Saturday, Nov 17th,The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at UCR, in association with the Boy Scouts of America, hosted its 2nd Merit Badge Day for Boy Scout Troops to earn Merit Badges in Electronics, Electricity, Computers, and Engineering. 

Saturday, Nov 10th,Wow! That's Engineering? SWE national event successfully hosted by UCR chapter. The event is designed to bring young girls together with female engineers to learn more about the field of engineering through interactive activities and discussions. Collaborators for the event included SWE national, and the Orange County Professional Section to plan for the West Coast event.

On Saturday, May 12th, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at UCR, in association with the Boy Scouts of America, hosted its first annual Merit Badge Fair for Boy Scout Troops to earn Merit Badges in Electronics, Electricity, Computers, and Engineering.  A total of 69 Boy Scouts from throughout Southern California came for the all-day event and earned over 125 Merit Badges.  The scouts also toured UCR Engineering facilities and labs.  This was the first time many of the scouts had visited a University and many expressed interest in pursuing engineering-related fields.

Congratulations to IEEE-UCR on a highly successful event!

COELC 2007-2008 officers:
- Chair: Katie Peterson (BMES)
- Vice Chair of Internal Affairs: Angello Pozo (IEEE)
- Vice Chair of External Affairs: Naubahar Agha (BMES)
- Secretary: Andrea Coba (SWE)
- Treasurer: Helena Chiang (SWE)
- Webmaster: Jesse Banuelos (IEEE)

ASUCR Senators:
- Deep Shah and Chong Ding

Congratulations to all new officers and senators!

Team members spent many hours arranging ~5000 cans into a replica of UCR icons such as the C, the arches, and the bell tower. The design took the prize for “best use of labels.” The structure can be viewed at the corner of Lime and Mission Inn at the Riverside Arts Museum until late May. Congratulations to all team members! Photos will be up soon.

Be a part of planning, shaping, and organizing the second annual Bourns Ball! This is an excellent opportunity to gain leadership experience, work on a team, and be involved in the execution of a large college-wide event. Email coelc[at]engr.ucr.edu if you are interested in volunteering.

UCR's Chapter of ASME participated in the HPV Competition two weekends ago and placed 10th out of 24 schools (click for exact scores and results) - a great improvement over last year's results. ASME would like to thank everyone who participated this year and encourages all students interested in participating next year to contact them or stop by one of their meetings during this quarter or Fall Quarter.

Email to the coelc[at]engr.ucr.edu is still bouncing, so until further notice please also send email to bcoelc[at]gmail.com. We will post here when the email address problem is fixed.

End of year reports will be due May 18th. All student organizations should begin preparing these ASAP! Check the resources page for instructions, forms, examples from past years, and other information.

During a few days of the last week, mail being sent to coelc[at]engr.ucr.edu was inexplicably bounced, but the problem should be fixed now. If your email gets bounced or you don't hear a reply from us within a few days, forward your email to bcoelc[at]gmail.com and we will attempt to resolve any issues which may come up.

Canstruction is still in full swing - we have around 8 people signed up to do it at the moment. The five main team members have already been designated but if you would like to help in the design/build process as an alternate/supporting member please email nkins001@student.ucr.edu . The team is currently working on the finalized design for the piece and has set up a forum for discussing the project: http://ucrcanstruction.freeforums.org/ . Also, UCR recently ran a story about our group - http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1548 .

ASUCR Elections will be taking place during Week 3 of Spring Quarter. We have an astounding number of candidates for the COE running this year so make sure to remind and encourage your members to vote at www.elections.ucr.edu between April 16 and April 20. The prospective COE senators are Jolan Abaquin, Naubahar Agha, Shruthi Bala, Joseph Clift, Chong Ding, Dalia Eldessouky, Robert Rivas, Eddie Rocha, and Deep Shah.

Student Organization Awards - Nominations forms for awards are available at the Student Life office and at http://studentlife.ucr.edu/Student+Organizations/Student+Organization+Awards.htm . Please visit the website for information regarding what awards are available.

IEEE at UCR is hosting an outreach event with the Boy Scouts of America to offer engineering-related Merit Badge workshops to local boy scout troops. The event will take place Saturday, May 12th, 2007 in the EBU II CS and EE labs with two sessions - one from 8am to noon and the second from 1pm to 5pm. All clubs are invited to look at the merit badges at http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/ to see if their club would like to participate by offering workshops. If your organization would like to host a workshop IEEE needs to know which badge(s) you'd like to offer and a contact person from your organization to coordinate with (you will need at least 4 volunteers for each workshop and session). If you would like to volunteer as a helper on that day, email ieeeucr[at]gmail.com. The absolute deadline to let IEEE know if you would like to participate in any way is Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007.

Represent your college, get involved in campus issues, gain valuable leadership skills, and even earn a small paycheck! ASUCR Senator Applications are due Friday, March 9th and can be found in the Club Room or acquired from ASUCR.

While COE makes up 10% of the student population, COE makes up 30% of the most heinous academic related student judicial affairs cases. Currently, there are no Engineering students serving on the committees that hear each case. Engineering students need to be heard by fellow engineering students who understand the difficulty of maintaining academic success in engineering.

The Office of Student Judicial Affairs is offering opportunities for engineering students with a 2.5 cumulative GPA or better. They need a minimum of 5 engineering students to fill available positions on the COE Academic Integrity Committee. Having COE students serve on the committee is critically important to ensure broad deliberations, fairness and consideration of the COE student perspective. This is an outstanding opportunity to gain additional communication and leadership experience as part of your career development.

If you are interested, more information and applications are available at the SJA website: http://conduct.ucr.edu/

You can also contact Laura Riley, Director of Student Judicial Affairs, to express your interest at 951-827-4208 or laura.riley[at]ucr.edu

The 2006 Leadership Training was a success! Over 35 COE Student Organization officers were in attendance to absorb a day full of information and resources. Please check the "Resources" page for copies of the handouts that were distributed during the event (to be posted as they are received).

A brand new student organizations brochure has been designed and printed! Click the below thumbnail to view the pdf file (download the Adobe Acrobat reader here if you cannot open the file).

Printed brochures are available in the club room (EBU II #102).

If you missed the last meeting, please take a moment to fill out an evaluation form so that we can collect suggestions for next year's Leadership Council and next year's Banquet and Ball!

Also please stay tuned for upcoming information on COE student organization Bear Facts joint tables.

We are currently compiling a list of student awards and achievements to recognize at the banquet. If you or someone you know (or a group of students you know) has been the recipient of a scholarship, a fellowship, a grant, an award, has had a paper published, won a contest, or anything else that deserves recognition, please let us know! coelc[at]engr.ucr.edu

• End of the year Reports are due May 19th at 5pm. Go here for info on the EOY Reports. See the last meeting's mintues for information regarding multimedia requirements and other report details. Email Martin at martin.gawecki[at]gmail.com with any questions regarding the EOY Reports.
• MESA Scholarship Competition will be held on Sat, June 6, 2006.
• Advanced registration for student organizations is under way. See the student life website for more details.

Summer 2005 Newsletter