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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
Internal Bioengineering Exposure (IBE)
Ayden Zarkhah: [email protected]
• 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 [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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!