Committees
Engineering Tribunal Committee Chairs are selected by the President, as stated in the Engineering Tribunal Constitution.
The common responsibility of every Committee Chair is to organize and coordinate committee meetings, while specific Committee Chair duties are listed below their respective heading.
Big Brother / Big Sister
To promote interaction between freshmen and upperclassmen.
Duties of Committee Chair:
- Organizes events such as Paintballing, Post-Physics Exam Party, Co-op Information Night, UCET Movie, Night, Basketball game viewing.
- Holds tutoring sessions where freshmen can learn from upperclassmen.
Committee Members
- Give general assistance at events (setting up, helping during event, clean up).
- Help brainstorm ideas.
Collegiate Affairs
To represent engineers on college committees, notably curriculum, computing, academic standards, and professional standards.
Duties of Committee Chair:
- Ensure that all student seats are filled on all committees.
- Ensure that UCET is notified of all meetings by college administration.
- Coordinate the positions of all student members of committees so that students present a unified voice.
Duties of Committee Members
- Sit on committees.
- Speak as a representative of UCET in conjuction with adopted UCET positions.
- Attend meetings and, where necessary, write proposals to present to the respective committees.
Engineering Career Fair
To coordinate the Career Fair (held each Fall quarter) and ensure that it is beneficial to students and companies.
Duties of Committee Chair:
- Maintain list of company contacts.
- Inform companies of the event.
- Make sure that as many companies are called as possible to ensure a large company participation.
Duties of Committee Members
- Help with the Career Fair brochure.
- Solicit companies to attend the Career Fair.
- Help set up for the event, run the event, and clean up after the event.
E-Week
Engineers week is a national engineering tradition, held in conjunction with the nationally recognized Engineers Week. The E-Week committee is responsible for organizing the E-Week festivities.
Duties of Committee Chair:
- Determine theme of E-Week (should be confirmed by November).
- Recruit Corporate sponsors for sponsorship of E-Week.
- Plan the budget.
- Schedule a banquet hall.
- Approve the T-Shirt design.
Duties of Committee Members
- Stuff envelopes for sponsorship mailings.
- Schedule busing for Saturday banquet.
- Organize student group sponsored events.
- Design T-Shirt and banquet program.
- Sell banquet tickets and T-Shirts.
Evaluations
To improve and aid in the evaluation process in the College of Engineering.
Duties of Committee Chair:
- Promote to students participation in the online evaluations.
- Alert students to look for evaluations emails (near end of quarter).
- Prepare summary charts for each quarter's course evaluation results.
Duties of Committee Members
- Come up with new ideas to improve evaluation process.
Student Organizations Communications Committee
Gain exposure for UCET, provide signs to publicize UCET events, and maintain webpage (updating with current events, organization information and contacts, and publicity worthy information).
Duties of Committee Chair:
- Organize and delegate tasks pertaining to advertisement of general meetings, fundraising, and any event which UCET sponsors.
- Maintain a contact list for organizations within the College of Engineering.
Duties of Committee Members
- Design and creation of signs (if any are to be posted).
- Web page work.
- Word of mouth about events/meetings (announce in classes, etc.).
Recognition
To award Professor of the Quarter, Professor of the Year (Spring quarter only), Freshman of the Year (Spring quarter only), and Senior of the Year (Spring quarter only).
Duties of Committee Chair:
- Organize the Student Scholarship Committee.
- Put out Scholarship and Professor of the Quarter as early in the quarter as possible.
- Have the Scholarship Applications due about the 6th week so you have time to have your committee meeting and can give the awards by quarter's end.
- Make Professor of the Quarter forms due in time so that you can vote on them and host a pizza party for the winning professor's class by quarter's end.
Duties of Committee Members
- Sit on Scholarship Committee.
- Help announce due dates for awards and where to find the forms.
Special Events & Fund Raising
To plan social events and sell College of Engineering merchandise to generate revenue.
Duties of Committee Chair:
Special events
- Decide on an event, a date, cost, and transportation.
- Inform the students.
- (Optional) Coordinate with another committee (ex: Big Brother/ Big Sister).
Fundraising
- Pick a design for merchandise.
- Make interested parties aware of merchandise (ex: Mail out fundraising letters to parents).
- Coordinate merchandise orders.
Duties of Committee Members
- Help call organizations for information and decide on details, etc.
- Participate in the event!
- Help in the coordination of sending out letters, calling companies for prices (for both merchandise and events).
Bylaws and Constitution Review
To ensure that all executives know what the constitution and bylaws state about issues and to ensure needed revisions to the documents are made in a timely manner.
Duties of Committee Chair:
- Ensuring any modifications to be made are not in conflict with Student Government regulations.
- Ensuring requirements for voting and approval of updated Bylaws and/or Constitution are met.
- Inform students of new Bylaws and/or Constitution
- Provide student access to new Bylaws and/or Constitution (whether electronic or hardcopy)
Duties of Committee Members
- Provide input for the revisions to be made.
Technology
To maintain the website and computers for Engineering Tribunal.
Committee Chair:
- Maintains the Engineering Tribunal web site.
- Ensures functionality of computers and printers in the Engineering Tribunal office.
- Ensures security of data (on server and local computers).
Committee Members
- Helps with the updating of the web site.
- Administers user accounts.