BOA First General Body

Meeting

Informational Meeting

September 13, 2012

What is BOA?

Bioengineering Organizational Alliance

Biomedical Engineering Society› Automatically a member

of the BMES UIC Chapter Engineering World Health Various other programs T-shirts – design contest;

look for the email!

Meet the Board

Faculty advisor Dr. Kotche

PresidentChaitra K.

TreasurerFabian D.

Vice President Nikhil B.

Secretary John K.

Directors of Various

Programs

Various Programs Directors of each program will give you

a brief intro of their program Learn how being involved can be fun,

benefit you, and benefit boa After the presentation, go find the

board member who spoke about an interesting program and sign up to get more info!

Special GBM

What College Does to most Students…

But don’t let this be YOU!!!

Homework and Classes can be RUTHLESS!

Let BOA Tutoring

help You get more shut eye

Stuff we Do!BOA Study Groups • Fooooooood• Friends?• FUUUUN

LRC Tutoring

Calling for BOA Tutors!• Schedule?• Meet me afterwards

Questions??!?!?!?!?!?!?

Contact papa2@uic.edu

Big/Little Program

Partners under/upperclassmen Help integrate new students to UIC Foster relationships between the

mentor pairs Share knowledge from academics to

life Fun activities!

Pre-Med Committee

Provide helpful information to pre-meds› Useful tips› General guide to be a more competitive

applicant Set up a shadowing program with

doctors

Membership is offered to the top fifth of juniors and top third of seniors in biomedical engineering who have completed at least six semester credit

hours of biomedical engineering courses

•Recognition

•Networking

•Service Opportunities

•Development Opportunities

1st General Meeting: TBDQuestions: Natalia at narana2@uic.edu

26.2-mile Bank of America Chicago Marathon•The Cellmates on the Run is a running group that brings people together to achieve a common goal: to raise awareness in the fight of an aggressively growing epidemic - DIABETES.

•Hope to raise approximately $500,000 for diabetes research

•5 runners were formerly dependent on insulin, but have had an islet cell transplant and now live diabetes free

Date: Sunday, October 7th

Time: 7am Place: In front of SCE

Volunteers receive: •Free T-shirt•Snacks/Drinks

Stem Cell Society

For members interested and/or curious about stem cells.Open discussions on stem cell research. What is going on with the field? Weird terms and acronyms. Ethical issues.Get to know what UIC is doing in the field. Focus on the BIOE department. Professor talks and seminars. Lab tours.

Stem Cell SocietyMore information:Website: boa.pages.uic.edu/SCS.htmlFacebook group: Simply type Stem Cell Society.

First SCS meeting! Tuesday September 18 (next week!) 5-6 PM SEO 219Detailed info about SCS and intro to Stem Cells.

Meet the Committe!∫ Félix Morales∫ Parth Soni∫ Neil Mohindra

Bioengineering Volunteering Program

(BVP)

Two Divisions•EBE•IBE

GOALS:•Influence high school students about the vast field of Bioengineering

•Influence the community by having members volunteer their time to help out various causes

Contact: Info BVP Director Karan Kerwell kkerwe2@uic.edu

Internal Bioengineering Exposure (IBE)

Ayden Zarkhah: aydenzarkhah@gmail.com

• Lab Tours on Preview Days

• Blood Drives

• Research Workshops• Spring 2013• Resume Building• How to apply to

research

External Bioengineering Exposure(EBE)

o High School Presentations Recruiting volunteers willing to go to

high schools and talk about bioengineering

In the past we have been to… Northside College Prep St. Ignatius College Prep

Contact: Info EBE Head Brian Havel bhavel2@uic.edu

Engineering World Health1st Meeting – Sept 20th

Engineering World Health (EWH)

ESU Tester Kit Building

- EWH has been granted access to the newly renovated BioE lab – SEL 4018

- Continue from last semester

What are we building? Electro-surgery unit testers. (These

typically cost $2,000, but EWH has created a tester that costs 18$ each)

Electro-surgery units are used to create incisions via the use of high frequency electric current. 

Did you know?

Typically 50 percent of medical equipment in

developing country health facilities is out of

service and as much as 70 percent of

donated medical equipment does not

work.

Engineering World Health (EWH)

Kit building sessions Info

Where: SEL 4018

When: Thursday Sept. 20th 4-6pm - 2 hours of kit building, drop in any time! - We will have updates on what is planned

for this semester at 5pm

What: 50 ESU testers kits – We are half way through from last

semester

Engineering World Health (EWH)

Event is open to all majors!

The kits require simple soldering

• No prior soldering experience is required

• We’ll teach you how to solder

Oh and we’ll have food too!

Contact info: vvarma4@uic.edu

Activities

Fun Fun Fun! Dodge ball! (Next Tuesday 9/18 4:00 pm) Hunger Games / Lord of the Rings ball! Bowling! Museum Trips! Free food (sometimes)! Engineering socials! Ideas??? Contact Josiah Han at 630-877-

1292

STAMPS

Be involved, get rewarded Get a stamp card when you become a

member 1 stamp for becoming a member! 1 stamp for attending GBMS and other

events Multiple stamps for being a part of programs Once you fill out a stamp card, enter it in a

raffle to win various prizes Frequent raffle drawings Most active member awards

BOA Raffle-Fundraiser Your membership and

participation leads to PRIZES!!!

Small prizes Big prizes Details to come!