Members Present: Harry Bell, Larry Burton, Ken Jenkins, Kevin Kelly, Jack Mitchell, David Salvia, Fred Thompson, and Mark Wharton

Mark opened the meeting at 5:00pm.

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Topic 1.  General Membership Meeting -- finalizing the agenda
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The committee finalized the agenda for the May 3 General Membership Meeting.

• Introduction - Mark Wharton
• EE Department News - Ken Jenkins
• Undergraduate Recruiting - Harry Bell
• SPSEE Graduate Fellowship - Mark Wharton
• Guest Speaker:  Ken Reeves, Expert Senior Forecaster, AccuWeather
  "How AccuWeather Affects Your Life"
  (The talk will begin at 2 pm.  Other agenda items will be moved if necessary)
• break
• EPICS - Liz Kisenwether
• Open Issues - Mark Wharton

Dave Salvia will invite graduating Seniors to the meeting as well.

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Topic 2.  Undergraduate Recruiting
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Harry informed the committee that they had good a good yield this year.  42% of the students called in SP01 came to PSU in FA01.

Some issues/comments regarding the recruiting:
    - non-uniform number of students to call (some alums are getting huge lists;  others get just a handful)
    - 8-12 students is a good number to have to call
    - Sunday afternoon seems to be a good time to reach the students

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Topic 3.  EE vs. Cmpen
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Fred Thompson suggested that Ken mention something about the department's efforts to address the EE vs. computer engineering issue.  Ken will add that to his EE Department News section at the General Meeting.

Next meeting:
General Meeting -- May 3, 2002
Planning Committee Meeting -- TBA