2014-2015 TBP CAE Project ReportsEPSILON! 201412015!Chapter!Report! University!of!California,!Los!Angeles! Henry!Samueli!School!of!Engineering!and!Applied!Sciences!!!!!

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CALIFORNIA!EPSILON!201412015!Chapter!Report!

University!of!California,!Los!Angeles!Henry!Samueli!School!of!Engineering!and!Applied!Sciences!

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Table!of!Contents!Table!of!Contents!......................................................................................................................................................!1!1.! About!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!California!Epsilon!Chapter!.................................................................................................!1!

1.1! Officer!Board!...............................................................................................................................................!2!2.! Tau!Beta!Pi!2015!National!Convention!!.............................................................................................................!4!3.! District!Conferences!...........................................................................................................................................!5!

3.1! !Fall!District!Conference!..............................................................................................................................!5!3.2! !Spring!District!Conference!!........................................................................................................................!7!

4.! University!Events!...............................................................................................................................................!9!4.1! !Engineering!Welcome!Day!.......................................................................................................................!10!4.2! !Tau!Beta!Pi’s!5th!Annual!Rube!Goldberg!Competition!.............................................................................!12!4.3! !Engineers!Week!Kids!Day!.........................................................................................................................!16!4.4! !Engineers!Week!Pie!Sale!..........................................................................................................................!18!4.5! !Engineers!Week!Tabling!...........................................................................................................................!19!4.6! !Cardboard!Boat!Race!...............................................................................................................................!20!

5.! Education!and!Professional!Development!.......................................................................................................!22!5.1! !Internship!Insider!Night!...........................................................................................................................!23!5.2! !Alumni!Meet!and!Greet!...........................................................................................................................!26!5.3! !Bruin!Start!Up!Fair!....................................................................................................................................!28!5.4! Class!Planning!Workshop!..........................................................................................................................!30!5.5! Grad!School!Night!.....................................................................................................................................!32!5.6! Company!Information!Sessions!................................................................................................................!34!5.6.1!University!of!Michigan!Ann!Arbor!Information!Session!.........................................................................!34!5.6.2!Southern!California!Edison!Information!Session!....................................................................................!35!5.6.3!Navy!Information!Session!.......................................................................................................................!37!5.6.4!Covidien!Information!Session!.................................................................................................................!38!

5.7! Engineering!Futures!..................................................................................................................................!39!5.7.1!Fall!Engineering!Futures!.........................................................................................................................!39!5.7.2!Spring!Engineering!Futures!....................................................................................................................!41!

5.8! Academic!Outreach!...................................................................................................................................!42!

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5.8.1!Fall!Math!32A!Biweekly!Review!Session!1!..............................................................................................!42!5.8.2!Fall!Math!32A!Midterm!1!Review!Session!..............................................................................................!43!5.8.3!Fall!Math!32A!Midterm!2!Review!Session!..............................................................................................!45!5.8.4!Fall!Math!32A!Biweekly!Review!Session!2!..............................................................................................!47!5.8.5!Fall!Math!31B!Review!Session!1!.............................................................................................................!49!5.8.6!Fall!Math!31B!Review!Session!2!.............................................................................................................!50!5.8.7!Fall!Math!31B!Review!Session!3!.............................................................................................................!51!5.8.8!Fall!Math!31B!Review!Session!4!.............................................................................................................!52!5.8.9!Winter!Chemistry!20B!Review!Session!1!................................................................................................!53!5.8.10!Winter!Chemistry!20B!Review!Session!2!..............................................................................................!54!5.8.11!Winter!Chemistry!20B!Review!Session!3!..............................................................................................!55!5.8.12!Winter!Chemistry!20B!Review!Session!4!..............................................................................................!56!5.8.13!Winter!Physics!1A!Midterm!1!Review!Session!.....................................................................................!57!5.8.14!Winter!Physics!1A!Review!Session!2!....................................................................................................!58!5.8.15!Winter!Physics!1A!Midterm!2!Review!Session!.....................................................................................!59!5.8.16!Winter!Physics!1A!Review!Session!4!....................................................................................................!60!5.8.17!Spring!Chemistry!30A!Review!Session!1!...............................................................................................!61!5.8.18!Spring!Chemistry!30A!Review!Session!2!...............................................................................................!62!5.8.19!Spring!Chemistry!30A!Review!Session!3!...............................................................................................!63!5.8.20!Spring!Chemistry!30A!Review!Session!4!...............................................................................................!64!5.8.21!Spring!Physics!1B!Midterm!1!Review!Session!......................................................................................!65!5.8.22!Spring!Physics!1B!Review!Session!2!......................................................................................................!66!5.8.23!Spring!Physics!1B!Midterm!2!Review!Session!......................................................................................!67!5.8.24!Spring!Physics!1B!Final!Review!Session!................................................................................................!68!

5.9! Tutoring!....................................................................................................................................................!70!5.9.1!Tutoring!..................................................................................................................................................!70!5.9.2!Winter!Tutoring!Room!Social!.................................................................................................................!71!

6.! Community!Service!..........................................................................................................................................!72!6.1! Fall!Engineering!Minds!Cultivating!Creativity!(EMCC)!..............................................................................!73!6.2! Fall!Blood!Drive!.........................................................................................................................................!74!

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6.3! Wheelchair!Basketball!..............................................................................................................................!75!6.4! !Seismic!Outreach!Volunteer!Opportunity!................................................................................................!76!6.5! !Winter!Engineering!Minds!Cultivating!Creativity!(EMCC)!........................................................................!78!6.6! Spring!Engineering!Minds!Cultivating!Creativity!(EMCC)!..........................................................................!79!6.7! !Spring!Blood!Drive!...................................................................................................................................!80!6.8! !Exploring!Engineering!..............................................................................................................................!81!6.9! Eye!on!Engineering!!...................................................................................................................................!82!

7.! Chapter!and!Social!Events!................................................................................................................................!83!7.1! !Fall!Officer!Retreat!...................................................................................................................................!84!7.2! !Fall!BBQ!&!Catapults!Competition!...........................................................................................................!86!7.3! Fall!Signature!Party!...................................................................................................................................!88!7.4! TBP!IEEE!Potluck!.......................................................................................................................................!89!7.5! !Fall!2014!Game!Night!...............................................................................................................................!91!7.6! Fall!2014!Officer!Bowling!Social!................................................................................................................!93!7.7! Fall!House!Socials!......................................................................................................................................!95!7.7.1!Pi!House!Social!–!Pizza!Pi!with!Pi!House!.................................................................................................!95!7.7.2!Beta!House!Social!–!Five!Guys!................................................................................................................!96!7.7.3!Epsilon!House!Social!–!Diddy!Riese!........................................................................................................!97!7.7.4!Tau!House!Social!–!KBBQ!........................................................................................................................!99!7.7.5!Epsilon!House!Social!–!Fat!Sal’s!............................................................................................................!102!7.7.6!Beta!House!Social!–!TLT!........................................................................................................................!104!7.7.7!Pi!House!Social!–!Game!Night!..............................................................................................................!105!7.7.8!Tau!House!Social!–!Horrible!Bosses!2!...................................................................................................!106!

7.8! Winter!Officer!Retreat!............................................................................................................................!108!7.9! TBP!Officers1on1Ice!Skating!Social!Winter!2015!......................................................................................!110!7.10! Winter!2015!Game!Night!........................................................................................................................!112!7.11! Publicity!A1Board!....................................................................................................................................!114!7.12! KBBQ!Social!.............................................................................................................................................!115!7.13! Winter!2015!Karaoke!Night!....................................................................................................................!117!7.14! Winter!2015!Office!Clean!Up!..................................................................................................................!118!

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7.15! Winter!2015!Hunger!Games!...................................................................................................................!119!7.16! Pi!Day!Sale!(Fundraiser)!..........................................................................................................................!121!7.17! TBP!Freshman/Sophomore!Scholarship!.................................................................................................!123!7.18! Spring!Officer!Retreat!.............................................................................................................................!124!7.19! Spring!Karaoke!Night!..............................................................................................................................!126!7.20! Spring!Game!Night!..................................................................................................................................!127!7.21! Spring!House!Socials!...............................................................................................................................!128!7.21.1!Pi!House!Social!–!800!Degrees!Pizza!...................................................................................................!128!7.21.2!Epsilon!House!Social!–!Hiking!.............................................................................................................!129!7.21.3!Beta!House!Social!–!Diddy!Riese!........................................................................................................!131!7.21.4!Tau!House!Social!–!Avengers!Age!of!Ultron!.......................................................................................!132!7.21.5!Epsilon!House!Social!–!KBBQ!..............................................................................................................!133!7.21.6!Pi!House!Social!–!Game!Night!............................................................................................................!135!7.21.7!Beta!House!Social!–!Laser!Tag!............................................................................................................!135!7.21.8!Tau!House!Social!–!Ultimate!Frisbee!..................................................................................................!137!

8.! Initiation!Events!.............................................................................................................................................!139!8.1! !Fall!Candidate!Orientation!.....................................................................................................................!140!8.2! !Fall!Candidate!Sorting!............................................................................................................................!141!8.3! !Fall!Candidate!Meet!and!Greet!..............................................................................................................!143!8.4! Fall!Bent!Polish!........................................................................................................................................!144!8.5! !Fall!Candidate!Quiz!................................................................................................................................!146!8.6! Fall!Initiation!!..........................................................................................................................................!147!8.7! !Spring!Candidate!Orientations!!..............................................................................................................!149!8.8! !Spring!Candidate!Sorting!Scavenger!Hunt!.............................................................................................!150!8.9! !Spring!Meet!and!Greet!...........................................................................................................................!151!8.10! Spring!Bent!Polish!...................................................................................................................................!152!8.11! Spring!Candidate!Quiz!.............................................................................................................................!153!8.12! Spring!Initiation!.......................................................................................................................................!154!

9.! Meetings!and!Additional!Resources!..............................................................................................................!155!9.1! !Fall!Quarter!Officer!Meetings!................................................................................................................!156!

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9.2! Fall!Officer!Informational!Meeting!.........................................................................................................!157!9.3! !Fall!Officer!Transition!Meeting!..............................................................................................................!158!9.4! !Winter!Quarter!Officer!Meetings!!..........................................................................................................!159!9.5! !Spring!Quarter!Officer!Meetings!!...........................................................................................................!160!9.6! !Spring!Officer!Informational!Meeting!....................................................................................................!161!9.7! !Spring!Officer!Transition!Meeting!..........................................................................................................!162!9.8! Sample!Meeting!Minutes!........................................................................................................................!163!9.9! Sample!Dean’s!Letter!to!Parents!............................................................................................................!165!9.10! Sample!Candidate!Requirements!Packet!................................................................................................!166!9.11! Website!Updates!....................................................................................................................................!168!

10.! Closing!Remarks!............................................................................................................................................!173!!

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1. About!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!California!Epsilon!Chapter!!

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The!California!Epsilon!Chapter!was!founded!in!1952!at!the!University!of!California,!Los!Angeles.!The!CA!Epsilon!Chapter!serves!as!one!of!the!leading!engineering!societies!on!campus.!We!are!recognized!for!the!various!leading!roles!we!take!on!in!the!engineering!community.!For!example,!members!of!Tau!Beta!Pi!are!the!only!ones!allowed!to!serve!as!student!marshals!during!commencement.!We!also!serve!the!School!of!Engineering!by!providing!free!tutoring!and!mentoring!services!to!students!and!hosting!fun!school1wide!competitions.!!

A!large!part!of!our!involvement!in!the!engineering!community!is!the!free!drop1in!tutoring!program!that!is!offered!all!year!long.!During!Fall!and!Spring!quarters,!candidates!serve!as!the!tutors,!while!officers!are!the!tutors!during!Winter!quarter.!We!also!offer!review!sessions!for!lower!division!math!and!science!classes!that!are!required!for!engineers!and!host!them!in!the!dorms!to!help!the!engineering!underclassmen.!Recent!budget!cuts!have!drastically!cut!funding!to!other!student!services!on!campus,!which!has!significantly!increased!the!amount!of!attendance!to!our!free!program.!By!offering!this!program,!we!also!give!back!to!the!community!and!increase!our!presence!on!campus.!

!! Our!presence!is!further!advertised!through!the!projects!and!events!that!our!chapter!puts!on!year!after!year.!This!year,!we!had!a!total!of!two!projects,!the!Rube!Goldberg!Competition!and!the!Cardboard!Boat!Race,!both!of!which!brought!engineers!from!several!disciplines!and!more!together!to!compete!in!a!friendly!environment.!In!addition,!we!were!able!to!offer!a!variety!of!workshops!for!students,!covering!topics!like!Internships,!Course!Planning,!Graduate!School,!and!more.!!!! Despite!our!success!this!past!year,!we!continue!to!have!a!commitment!to!improve!our!presence!on!campus!and!our!events!as!well,!and!continue!to!focus!on!portraying!“distinguished!scholarship”!and!“exemplary!character”!in!all!that!we!do.!!!!!!!!

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1.1 !Officer!Board!!

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! Edward!Barber! ! Edward!Barber!Secretary! Athena!Huang! Secretary! Athena!Huang!

! ! ! Nikhil!Patel!Treasurer! Hannah!Jin! Treasurer! Hannah!Jin!

! Justin!Ong! ! Yingjia!Lee!Tutoring! George!Wang! Tutoring! George!Wang!

! Alex!Nosrat! ! Alex!Nosrat!Community!Service! Connie!Chiou! Community!Service! Jing!Gong!

! Nikhil!Patel! ! Anderson!Huang!Education!Outreach! Alyssa!Blacker! Education!Outreach! Heather!Blockhus!

! Heather!Blockhus! ! Charles!Sheung!Corporate!Relations! Glen!Gunawan! Corporate!Relations! Adrian!Siew!

! Tuan!Trinh! ! Tuan!Trinh!Mentorship! Scott!Strutner! Mentorship! Renyong!Huang!

! Kelvin!Wu! ! Kelvin!Wu!

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Social! Phillip!Woytowitz! Social! Danny!Shaffer!

! ! ! Phillip!Woytowitz!Publicity! Tim!Sung! Publicity! James!Papadopoulos!

! James!Papadopoulos! ! Alexander!Sorokin!Member!Coordinator! Irene!Yeh! Member!Coordinator! Meera!Midha!

! Xucheng!Yan! ! Ren!Odion!Project!Chair! Danny!Shaffer! Project!Chair! Denon!Wong!

! Denon!Wong! ! Dichen!Yin!Rube!Goldberg!Lead! Victor!Yu! Rube!Goldberg!Lead! Victor!Yu!Webmaster! Ray!Cothern! Webmaster! Ray!Cothern!

! George!Chassiakos! ! George!Chassiakos!Historian! Kimberly!Chyu! Historian! Kimberly!Chyu!Academic!Outreach! Ryan!Sandzimier! Academic!Outreach! Helia!Ng!

! Angela!Lam! ! Robert!Parker!Club!Liaisons! Andy!Luu!(ASCE)! Club!Liaisons! Quanjie!Geng!(HKN)!

! Max!Armenta!(ASCE)! ! Haochuan!Ni!(AIAA)!

! Andrew!Chan!(IEEE)! ! Michael!Sweatt!(UPE)!

! Glen!Gunawan!(UBS)! ! Stephen!Leicht!(AIChE)!

! Luke!Chiang!(MentorSEAS)! ! Aalhad!Patankar!(iGEM)!

! John!Li!(The!Green!Initiative!Fund)! ! Katherine!Schweidel!(Formula!SAE)!

! Meera!Midha!(Engineering!Ambassadors)! ! Zachary!McFann!(ASCE)!

! Edward!Barber!(AIAA)! ! Andy!Luu!(ASCE)!

! ! ! Tien!Le!(IEEE)!Faculty!Advisor! Bill!Goodin! Faculty!Advisor! Bill!Goodin!! ! ! !! ! ! !! ! ! !! ! ! !! ! ! !! ! ! !!!

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2. Tau!Beta!Pi!2015!National!Convention!!

Project!Date:! 10/2/2014110/4/2014!Project!Area:! Spokane,!Washington!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 96!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!

!I. PROJECT!DESCRIPTION!

Both! the! President! and! one! of! the! Vice! Presidents! went! to! Spokane,! Washington! to! attend! the!national!convention.!They!both!learned!a!lot!about!how!TBP!operates!at!a!national!level!and!enjoyed!working!on!the!convention!site!selection!committee!to!bring!convention!to!San!Diego!in!2016.!!

II. RELATIONSHIP!TO!OBJECTIVES!OF!TAU!BETA!PI!

During! convention,! the!president! acted! as! the! voting! delegate! and!was! able! to!make! a! difference!through!voting!for!TBP!at!a!national!level.!Both!of!them!were!able!to!socialize!with!members!of!other!chapters!and!help!network!between!the!chapters.!!

III. COST!AND!PERSONAL!REQUIREMENTS!

Both! the! president! and! VP! needed! to! skip! the! first! 2! days! of! class! in! order! to! attend! the! entire!convention.!Nationals!reimbursed!airfare!and!lodging!for!the!president!and!part!of!the!costs!for!the!VP.!!

IV. SPECIAL!PROBLEMS!

No!special!problems!occurred!for!this!event.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

This!event!was!helpful!and! insightful! for!both!participants.!The!exposure!to!TBP!at!a!national! level!and!networking!with!other!chapters!was!especially!helpful.!!

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3. District!Conferences!

3.1 !Fall!District!Conference!Project!Date:! 10/25/2014!Project!Area:! Cal!Poly!Pomona!Campus!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 5!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 6!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Fall!District!Conference!is!a!gathering!of!officers!from!many!of!the!District!16!schools!with!our!district!directors.!This!meeting!allows!us!to!exchange!ideas,!and!to!discuss!topics!such!as!required!reports,!national!convention,!and!a!District!16!event.!!There!was!an!icebreaker!event!at!the!beginning!for!all!the! officers! to! introduce! themselves,! and! afterward! we! all! went! to! have! lunch! at! a! nearby! pizza!place.!

!II. RELATIONSHIP!TO!OBJECTIVES!OF!TAU!BETA!PI!

Talking! with! other! chapters! allowed! the! officers! to! see! ways! of! improving! their! chapters.! Many!officers!faced!similar!challenges!though!approached!them!in!different!ways,!yielding!varied!results.!!The!icebreaker!and!lunch!afterward!allowed!officers!from!the!different!chapters!to!socialize.!

!III. COST!AND!PERSONAL!REQUIREMENTS!

The!only!cost!was!the!time!spent!since!drivers!were!reimbursed!for!gas.!!


Some!officers!who!initially!planned!to!attend!were!unable!to!go!due!to!last!minute!conflicts.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Our! officers! learned! a! lot! during! conference,! especially! regarding! the! chapter! reporting! and! the!district’s!renewed!focus!on!improving!initiation!numbers.! !

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3.2 !Spring!District!Conference!!Project!Date:! 4/18/2015!Project!Area:! Loyola!Marymount!University!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 7!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 12!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Spring!district!conference!was!held!at!Loyola!Marymount!University!and!was!attended!by!many!of!the!District!16!schools.!It!again!involved!a!sharing!of!ideas!and!information!between!the!schools!and!included!a!breakout!group!discussion,!as!well!as!a!campus!tour!and!alumni!dinner!afterward.!!!


Conference! helped! officers! from! different! chapters! exchange! ideas.! Many! chapters! face! similar!problems!and!this!allowed!us!to!share!what!changes!have!worked!and!what!has!not.!!


The!only!cost!was!gas!to!travel!to!and!from!LMU,!and!was!reimbursed!by!Nationals.!!


No!special!problems.!!The!alumni!dinner!lasted!longer!than!expected!but!was!well!worth!the!time.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Conference!was!very!helpful!for! learning!what!has!worked!for!other!chapters!and!ways!to!improve!our!chapter.!!

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!4. University!Events!

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4.1 !Engineering!Welcome!Day!Project!Date:! 10/1/2014!Project!Area:! Ackerman!Grand!Ballroom!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 6!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! Many!(flyers)!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! ESUC,!MentorSEAS!


Engineering!Welcome! Day! is! an! event! for! incoming! engineering! students! to! find! out! information!about!the!variety!of!engineering!clubs!at!UCLA.!!Since!students!must!be!invited!to!join!Tau!Beta!Pi,!we!took!this!opportunity!to!advertise!our!tutoring!program!and!Internship!Insider!Night.!


As! one! of! Tau! Beta! Pi’s! main! objectives! is! to! give! back! to! the! community,! we! use! Engineering!Welcome!Day!to!inform!new!engineering!students!about!our!tutoring!program!and!the!mentorship!events!we!host!during!the!year.!!


The!cost!for!flyers!and!poster!board!material!came!out!to!just!under!$10.!!Participating!officers!spent!upwards!of!30!minutes!to!help!setup,!flyer,!and!cleanup.!!


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V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!generally!successful,!with!over!200!flyers!for!tutoring!being!passed!out.!! !

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!4.2 !Tau!Beta!Pi’s!5th!Annual!Rube!Goldberg!Competition!Project!Date:! 2/27/2015!Project!Area:! SAC!Gynasium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 22!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 8!!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 140!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 60!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 10!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Another!successful!year!of!Rube!Goldenberg!Competition!this!year!!TBP!attracted!a!total!of!22!teams!and! over! 172! student,! faculty! and! guests! participants.! The! event! lasted! for! 5! hours,! during!which!teams! of! 518! had! 3! hours! to! design,! build,! and! test! a! Rube! Goldberg!machine.! Then! there!was! a!group!picture!break!and!the!machines!were!set!up! for! judging.!The! final!hour!consisted!of! judging!and!presenting!awards.!All!the!teams!were!given!the!same!materials!(provided!by!TBP)!and!the!final!task!was!to!have!machines!“knock!down!the!Trojan”,!where!each!team!was!provided!with!a!printed!Trojan.! We! left! the! execution! of! this! up! to! the! participants’! creativity.! Midway! through! the!competition,! a! bonus! item! (a! bell)! was! introduced! to! the! teams.! They!were! rewarded! during! the!judging!phase!if!they!elect!to!use!the!bonus!item!in!a!creative!way.!


The!Rube!Goldberg!competition!primarily!serves!two!functions!for!our!chapter.!First,!it!is!a!key!event!in!the!list!of!our!yearly!projects!–!one!that!our!engineering!community!looks!forward!to!and!one!that!many!students!know!Tau!Beta!Pi!for.!Each!year!we!host!it!and!more!students!learn!about!the!event,!we! increase!recognition!of!Tau!Beta!Pi! in! the!general!engineering!community.!Second,! the! friendly!competition!is!an!important!way!for!students!to!experience!some!fun!hands1on!engineering.!We’ve!seen!the!results!of!our!event!in!students!starting!other!clubs!to!pursue!similar!creative!engineering!projects!and!more!students!interested!in!the!engineering.!!


The!event!was!funded!by!the!generous!donations!of!EAA!($450),!Lockheed!Martin!($1500),!RAND!Corporation!($1000)!and!team!registration!fees!($430).!The!event!was!entirely!staffed!by!volunteers!from!TBP!throughout!the!school!of!engineering.!Both!UCLA!professors!and!guests!from!RAND!Corporation!conducted!judging.!The!cost!breakdown!of!this!year’s!event!is!as!follows:!

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In!terms!of!date!selection,!this!year!our!largest!challenge!was!securing!the!right!time!slot!at!the!SAC!gym.!The!Sunday!afternoon!time!frame!prevented!some!faculty!judges!from!participating.!However,!we!showed!that!the!afternoon!time!frame!could!be!a!possible!alternative,!as!it!will!be!fine!not!to!provide!lunch/dinner!to!students!should!budget!become!tight.!!!In! terms! of! volunteering,! what! each! volunteer! was! in! charge! of! was! sent! out! pretty! late.! In! the!future,! should! the! volunteers! know! what! their! duties! were! during! the! training! session,! the!competition! day! would! run! a! lot! smoother.! Lastly,! the! judging! process! wasn’t! made! clear! to!volunteers,! students!or! judges.!For! future! references,!organizers!will!need! to!establish!clearly!how!much! time! each! team!has! to! set! up,! to! demonstrate! each! step,! and!what! consists! of! a! re1run.! In!addition,!it!is!more!beneficial!for!all!teams!to!be!judge!by!the!same!group!of!judges!to!demonstrate!verbally!how!their!respective!machines!work,!so!judges!know!have!an!overall!idea!for!grading.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!received!extremely!positive!feedback!from!the!participants.!Many!teams!have!indicated!a!desire!to!compete!again!during!next!year’s!rendition!of!the!event.!Although!overall!the!event!was!very!successful,!there!are!particular!aspects!of!the!competition!that!can!be!improved!upon!for!next!year.!!We!have!achieved!capacity!maximization!in!for!Tau!Beta!Pi!to!accommodate,!so!in!the!future!other!aspects!other!than!participation!rate!should!be!of!priority.!One!of!the!things!to!improve!upon!would!be!the!judging!phase.!This!year,!we!streamlined!the!process!by!having!four!groups!of!judges!judging!in!parallel.!However,!the!judging!procedure,!including!demonstration!of!each!step,!set!time!frame!for!set!up,!and!what!to!do!for!a!re1run!wasn’t!made!clear.!In!addition,!some!past!participants!feedback!indicated! the! creativity! and! quality! of! this! year’s!machines! did! not! show! significant! improvement!than! previous! years.! Therefore,! in! order! to! produce! higher! quality! machines,! workshops! or! pre!competition!day!brainstorm!sessions!could!be!a!possible!choice.!!We!were!extremely!pleased!with!the!number!of!participants,!the!judges,!and!the!machines!built!this!year.! Both! the! number! of! participants! and! judges! increased! this! year,! developing! a! solid! platform!upon!which! to! continue! the! competition! as! an! annual! event.!Materials!were! better! this! year! and!allowed!for!more!interesting!and!complex!machines.!However,!the!most!important!factor!that!made!

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this!event!hugely!successful!was!the!dedication!of!our!planning!committee,!which!consisted!of!about!8!members!and!officers,!as!well!as!members!and!officers!who!helped!set!up!and!execute!the!event!on!the!day!of!the!competition.!!

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4.3 !Engineers!Week!Kids!Day!Project!Date:! 4/8/2015!Project!Area:! Los!Angeles,!California!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 10!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! ESUC!


As! part! of! the! larger! E1week,! children! from! local! schools! were! invited! to! UCLA! where! various!engineering!clubs!performed!scientific!demonstrations!with!them.!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!contribution!was!a!penny!boat!module!in!which!each!child!was!given!a!piece!of!foil!to!build!a!boat!with.!The!boats!were!then! placed! in! a! bucket! of!water.! Pennies!would! then! be! dropped!until! onto! the! boats! until! they!sank.!This!process!was!repeated!with!groups!of!10!children!on!rotation!for!three!hours!until!the!end!of!the!event.!!!!!


By!performing!a!fun!engineering!exercise!with!young!children,!the!event!served!to!encourage!them!in!pursuing!engineering!and!science!and!improve!the!future!of!these!disciplines.!Also!by!participating!in! a! large! multi1club! event,! Tau! Beta! Pi! maintains! relationships! with! other! engineering! groups! in!order!to!support!future!joint!efforts.!!!


The! foil! and! paper! towel! used!were! previously! purchased! by! the! chapter.! The! event! required! the!presence!of!two!officers!for!the!duration!of!the!three!hours.!!


There!were!no!significant!problems.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!children!enjoyed!the!module!and!saw!that!engineering!can!be!fun.!!! !

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4.4 !Engineers!Week!Pie!Sale!Project!Date:! 4/10/2015!Project!Area:! Court!of!Sciences!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 12!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 3!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


For!E1week,!we!did!something!similar! to! the!TBP!Pi!Day!sale.!We!bought!pies!and!sold!previous!Pi!Day!T1shirts.!!!!


In!order!to!promote!awareness!about!Tau!Beta!Pi!as!a!whole,!we!sold!pies!to!help!advertise!Tau!Beta!Pi!as!a!whole!to!the!engineering!to!the!community.!Additionally,!the!pies!and!T1shirts!sold!generate!profit!for!other!Tau!Beta!Pi!projects.!!!


T1shirts!were!previously!bought!for!Pi!Day,!and!we!simply!sold!unsold!T1shirts.!Pies!were!bought!from!Ralph’s! and! cost! around! $60! which! was! made! back! from! the! pies! sold.! Administrational!requirements!included!getting!a!table,!getting!utensils,!and!having!volunteers!to!man!the!booth.!!


The!project! ran!smoothly!without!problems.!One!slight! issue!was!not!selling!out!of!pies.!The! issue!was!probably!having!competition!with!other!clubs!as!compared!to!previously!selling!out!for!Pi!Day.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

We!sold!a!few!T1shirts!and!also!were!able!to!finish!selling!most!of!the!pies!we!bought.!!!! !

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4.5 !Engineers!Week!Tabling!Project!Date:! 4/11/2015!Project!Area:! UCLA!Court!of!Sciences!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 11!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! ESUC!


ESUC’s!E1Week!Club!showcase!is!an!event!for!student!engineering!organizations,!including!Tau!Beta!Pi,!to!display!our!activities!from!the!year.!Since!students!must!be!invited!!!to!join!Tau!Beta!Pi,!we!took!this!opportunity! to!advertise!our! tutoring!program!and! future! ! !events.!Several!officers! took!shifts!throughout!the!day!to!staff!our!booth!and!answer!any!questions!passers1by!had.!!!


As! one! of! Tau! Beta! Pi’s! objectives! is! to! give! back! to! the! community,!we! took! this! opportunity! to!inform!engineering!students!about!TBP,!our!tutoring!program,!and!the!events!we!plan!to!host!in!the!upcoming!year.!!


There!were!no!costs!besides!the!time!spent!by!all!participating!officers.!!


There!were!no!special!problems!with!this!event.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

We!successfully!informed!many!interested!students!about!the!process!of!joining!Tau!Beta!Pi!and!advertised!our!tutoring!program!and!upcoming!Cardboard!Boat!Race.!

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4.6 !Cardboard!Boat!Race!Project!Date:! 5/30/2015!Project!Area:! Student!Activities!Center!Pool!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 15!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 3!No.!of!Total!Competing!Participants:! 38!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 36!hours!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 4!hours!


This! year’s! Cardboard! Boat! Race!was! the! 5th! annual! rendition! of! the! event.! Participants! are! given!approximately!2!½!hours! to!design!and!construct!boats!of!cardboard!and!one!roll!of!duct! tape.!All!materials!were! provided! and! cardboard!was! evenly! distributed! to! each! of! the! teams.! Participants!then!moved!to!the!pool!area!where!they!raced!in!multiple!runs!in!individual!lanes.!The!objective!was!to!paddle!across!the!25!yard!pool,!turn!around!and!paddle!back!across.!Winners!were!awarded!cash!prizes!of!$100,!$30,!and!$20!for!the!top!three!places,!respectively.!!


Cardboard!Boat!Race!gives!members,!electees,!and!the!engineering!community!hands!on!experience!and!team!experience!in!a!fun,!yet!competitive!environment.!It!allows!our!chapter!of!Tau!Beta!Pi!to!strengthen! its! bonds! with! its! members,! electees,! alumni,! and! other! engineering! clubs! and!organizations.!TBP’s!advisor,!Bill!Goodin!is!a!strong!supporter!of!the!event!for!the!ties!it!strengthens!between!alumni!and!members.!!


The! planning! committee! of! three! consisted! of! two! officers! and! one! member.! An! approximate!average!of!two!hours!per!week!for!six!weeks!were!spent!by!the!committee!to!plan,!advertise,!aquire!materials,!and!organize!the!event.!No!costs!went!into!acquiring!cardboard!as!all!of!it!was!scavenged!and!recycled.!Costs!included!$150!in!cash!prizes!(funded!by!TBP),!$58.57!in!materials!(15!rolls!of!duct!tape),!and!approximately!$105!in!facilities!(pool!rental!and!lifeguard!costs!for!3!hours)!although!the!exact! bill! for! aquatics! rentals! has! not! been! recieved.!Material! and! facilities! costs! totaling! $174.54!were! funded!by! a! generous! sponsorship! from! the! Engineering!Alumni!Association! (EAA).! All! other!materials!and!tools!such!as!paddles,!box!cutters!and!a!first!aid!kit!were!on!hand.!!


Attendance!was! lower!than!anticipated;!9!teams!attended!compared!to!the!15120!we!had!planned!for.! Futhermore,! the! event!was! scheduled! on! a!weekend!where! numerous! other! engineering! and!schoolwide! events! took! place.! The! number! of! teams! had! no!detriment! on! the! atmosphere! of! the!event!and!was!acceptable!considering!14!teams!attended!the!event!in!the!previous!year.!Feedback!from!participants!was!overwhelmingly!positive!and! this!year,!we!were!able! to!coordinate!with! the!Boelter!Society!event,!where!alumni!were!able!to!come!out!and!watch!the!races!happen.!Feedback!from!alumni!and!faculty!who!attended!was!also!very!positive.!Suggestitions!from!previous!years!like!the!addition!of!measuring!tapes!and!writing!utensils!were!heeded!and!improved!the!build!quality!of!

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the!boats.!However,!considerations!have!been!taken!into!account!for!possible!ways!to!improve!the!project!for!future!years.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,! Cardboard! Boat! Race! was! a! success.! Participants! generally! had! positive! comments! and!enjoyed! themselves! thoroughly.! Various! types! of! boats! were! seen! ranging! from! simple! boxes! to!larger!canoes!to!a!trimaran.!First!place!went!to!a!team!from!AIChE,!second!went!to! IEEE!and!third!place!went!to!an!Epsilon!house!team!from!TBP.!The!three!placing!boats!were!contructed!excellently!with!the!materials!given!and!were!able!to!run!in!the!water!multiple!times.!!

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5.1 !Internship!Insider!Night!Project!Date:! 10/14/2014!Project!Area:! UCLA!Campus!(CS!50,!various!classrooms)!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 13!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 12!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 161!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 15!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! AIChE,!MentorSEAS,!AIAA!


With! the! help! of! the! aforementioned! organizations,! our! chapter! held! an! event! with! useful!information! regarding! internships.! The! event! was! broken! into! three! major! sections.! The! initial!portion! of! the! evening! started!with! a! pizza! social,! followed! by! filing! into! the! lecture! hall!where! a!scrolling!presentation!of!research! internship!programs! in!the!US!and!abroad!was!displayed.!With!a!brief!introduction!to!the!event!it!was!handed!over!to!a!career!fair!rep!to!acclimate!the!student!body!on!what! the! basic! of! the! internship! database! and! industry! opportunity! lists! were.! Then! the!main!phase!began,!where!the!panel!of!4!students,!a!career!center!representative,!and!an!ex1recruiter.!The!four! students! represented! the! following! majors:! Aerospace! Engineering,! Computer! Science,!Mechanical! Engineering,! and! Electrical! Engineering.! The! purpose! of! this! portion! was! to! allow!students!in!the!general!audience!to!ask!these!4!students!for!tips!they!could!share!from!their!personal!experiences! in! obtaining! internships,! while! the! two! non1students! provided! addition! context! from!interviewers’!and!companies’!perspectives.!In!order!to!keep!the!conversation!between!the!panelists!moving,! the! moderator! had! a! list! of! pre1screened! questions! obtained! from! the! attendees’! RSVP.!Students! were! also! encouraged! to! ask! follow! up! questions! during! this! part! of! the! event.! The!conclusion!of!the!question!and!answer!period!allowed!for!a!brief!intermission!where!students!would!broke!off!by!major!into!separate!rooms,!and!was!led!by!a!discussion!leader.!This!allowed!for!major1specific!questions!regarding!internships!that!could!not!have!otherwise!been!answered!by!the!earlier!panel.!!


This! internship! night! took! place! through! our! chapter’s! mentorship! program! and! was! advertised!heavily!during! the!annual!Engineering!Welcome!Day,!and! the!Enormous!Activities!Fair,!which! took!place!during!the!first!week!of!the!school!year.!Secondly,!the!other!groups!MentorSEAS!in!particular!were! effective! in! publicizing! the! event! digitally.! The! goal! of! this! event,! as!well! as! the!mentorship!program!in!general,!is!to!assist!the!underclassmen!of!the!engineering!school.!In!particular,!this!event!allowed! students! to! gain! useful! insight! into! the! internship! recruitment! process! from! the! student!perspective,! to! understand! more! of! what! the! companies! were! looking! for! and! thinking! about!applicants.!!


We!provided!pizza!and!drinks!to!attendees!free!of!charge.!The!funding!was!provided!by!the!Dean!of!the!School!of!Engineering!and!Applied!Science.!Officers!took!the!time!out!of!their!schedule!to!plan!

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the!event!and!to!help!with!the!setup!and!breakdown!of!the!event.!There!were!several!group!leaders!and!panelists!who!came!to!share!their!insight!and!answer!questions.!

!IV. SPECIAL!PROBLEMS!

Due! to! limited! space! and! time,! the! panel! of! students! could! not! include! every! engineering!major!offered!at!UCLA.!However,!because!of!the!general!nature!of!the!questions,!this!was!not!a!huge!issue.!The!break1out!to!classrooms!by!major!seemed!to!lose!students,!either!by!missing!the!exiting!group,!or!merely!loss!of!interest!in!the!final!part!of!the!event.!

!V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

This!was!our!fourth!time!holding!the!Internship!Insider!Night!event,!and!it!was!quite!a!success!!We!had!over!160!attendees,!again!but!feel!that!the!panel!was!improved!with!more!of!an!insider!feel,!and!less!“blind! leading!the!blind”.!We!received!great!feedback!from!the!students!who!took!the!time!to!come!out!to!the!event,!and!we!look!forward!to!holding!similar!events!in!the!future.!

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5.2 !Alumni!Meet!and!Greet!Project!Date:! 11/13/2014!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 20!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 30!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 12!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


Alumni!were!invited!to!interact!with!members!and!candidates!that!are!current!students,!in!order!to!provide!the!students!with!insight!into!what!life! is! like!after!college.!These!TBP!alumni!rotated!from!table! to! table,! allowing! the! students! to! ask! questions! and! interact! with! alumni! from! different!backgrounds.! Graduation! years! of! alumni! spanned! 40! years,! giving! a! broader! perspective! on! the!differences!in!life!after!college.!!


This!event!provides!students!with!an!opportunity!to!network!with!others!who!have!been!in!a!similar!situation! and! thrived! after! college.! The! event! also! serves! as! a! learning! experience! and! gives! the!students!an!opportunity!for!professional!development.!!


The! only! two! costs!were! the! cost! of! food,! supplied! by! the! club! for! all! attendees,! and! the! cost! of!parking!for!the!alumni.!!


Organizing! the! parking! for! the! alumni! presented! a! few! problems! because! of! unexpected!circumstances!with!the!parking!kiosk!misunderstanding!the!nature!of!the!event.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,! the!event!was!a! successful! in! creating!an!opportunity! for! students!and!alumni! to!network!with!each!other!about! school!and! life!after! school.! Students!were!able! to!ask!questions!about! life!after! school,! the! path! to! get! the! jobs! the! alumni! currently! have,! and!what! the! best! part! of! both!are/were.!The!casual!setting!over!dinner!made!the!conversations!easier!for!both!parties!and!allowed!for!effective!conversation.!

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5.3 !Bruin!Start!Up!Fair!Project!Date:! 11/5/2014!Project!Area:! Ackerman!Grand!Ballroom!No.!of!Participating!Members:! N/A!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! N/A!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! N/A!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 80!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!Sigma!Eta!Pi,!Bruin!Entrepreneurs,!ESUC!


With! the!help! of! the! above!organizations,! our! chapter! held! a!main! role! in! the!planning!of!UCLA’s!biggest!and!only!startup!fair.!The!event!was!planned!for!more!than!2!months!before!the!date!of!the!event.!The!event!consisted!of!students!(both!engineering!and!non1engineering)!coming!to!the!event,!where! various! employers! set! up! booths! to! talk! about! their! company! and! the! employment!opportunities! they! can!provide.! TBP!played! the! role!of!marketing! in! this!project,!with!a!budget!of!over! $3,000.! This! included! the! graphics,! t1shirt! design,! social! media! marketing,! and! on1campus!marketing.! The! event! was! open! to! all! majors,! and! included! engineering! students! and! non1engineering!students.!!


This!event!provided!all! students! (engineering!and!non1engineering)! the!opportunity! to! learn!about!startup! opportunities! in! well1known! and! successful! startups! such! as! Flipagram! and! Snapchat.! Co1hosting!the!information!session!helped!publicize!Tau!Beta!Pi!to!students!and!provide!an!opportunity!for!us!to!work!closely!with!three!major!groups!in!the!engineering!school,!ESUC,!Bruin!Entrepreneurs,!and!Sigma!Eta!Pi,!and!contribute!to!a!positive!relationship!for!future!collaboration.!We!also!helped!connect!UCLA!engineering!school!more!closely!with!a!prestigious!engineering!program,!hopefully!the!beginning! of! a! better! relationship! between! UCLA! and! startups! in! the! future.! This! will! also! help!encourage!startup!and!entrepreneurial!pursuits!for!both!engineering!and!non1engineering!students!at!UCLA.!!


No!costs.!The!event!was!paid!for!through!the!sponsorship!costs!to!the!companies!and!other!clubs,!with! no! cost! other! than! time! coming! from!TBP.! This! consisted! of! helping! design! the! graphics! and!social!media/on1campus!marketing!efforts!through!our!list1serve!and!various!other!groups!TBP!has!a!relationship!with.!!


No! special! programs,! but! TBP! member! attendance! was! low.! Moreover,! due! to! the! many! groups!involved,!TBP!could!not!set!up!a!sign! in!sheet!quickly!enough!to!register!TBP!members/candidates!into!the!event.!!!

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The!event!was!a!great!success,!with!greater!than!300!students!attending.!We!also!could!not!have!our!candidates!come! in!and!attend,!as! it!was!difficult! to!arrange!a!sign1in!booth! just! for!TBP!members!when! the! event! included! efforts! from!many! different! organizations! targeting! both! engineers! and!non1engineers.!However,!despite!these!circumstances,!target!attendance!was!good,!as!the!room!was!nearly!filled!up,!with!more!than!25!companies!in!attendance.!The!representatives!were!very!happy!at!the!turnout!and!the!variety!of!different!majors!and!studies!in!attendance.!!!

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5.4 Class!Planning!Workshop!Project!Date:! 2/5/2015!Project!Area:! MS!5200!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 14!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 32!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 13!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!1/2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! HSSEAS!OASA!


TBP! members! comprising! upperclassmen! reviewed! all! Technical! Breadth! Areas! (TBA)! and! Field!Electives!of!all!engineering!majors.!As!the!selection!of!TBAs!was!similar!for!all!engineering!majors,!a!panel!discussion!and!Q&A!session!were! conducted.! Individual!major! field!electives!were!discussed!during!the!breakout!session,!with!the!different!majors!gathered!at!various!booths!around!the!lecture!theater.! ! The! issues! addressed! include:! prerequisites! needed! for! certain! electives,! recommended!TBA/!elective!courses,!and!courses!suited!for!specific!industries.!!!!


The!event!fulfilled!the!mentorship!component!of!TBP,!as!it!harnessed!the!experience!of!juniors!and!seniors! and! gave! a! platform! for! them! to! advise! freshmen! and! sophomores! on! class! options.! TBP!Officers!ultimately!benefit!UCLA’s!engineering!community!by!providing!a!valuable! counseling! from!the!perspective!of!a!student!who!had!recently!gone!through!a!similar!experience!of!class!selection.!!!!


Pizza!was!provided.!The!event!involved!many!TBP!officers!and!was!thus!manpower1heavy.!!!


The!publicity!for!the!event!did!not!draw!as!many!engineers!as!expected,!especially!the!sophomores!who!were!on!the!cusp!of!choosing!their!TBAs!and!major!electives.!All!participants!remained! in!the!lecture! theater! to! talk! to! TBP!upperclassmen!during! the!breakout! session,! because!of! the! ease!of!remaining! in!the!same!venue!after!the!TBA!panel!and!the!high!frequency!for!undeclared!freshmen!engineers!participating! in!the!breakout!sessions!for!different!majors.!The!lecture!theater!was!noisy!during!the!breakout!session!as!a!result!


Participants! were! satisfied! with! the! delivery! and! format! of! the! event.! A! few! reflected! that! the!duration!of! the!TBA! session!was! slightly! too! long.!Many!would!prefer!a!more!personal! interaction!with!TBP!upperclassmen.!!!!!!

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!TBP!member!Angela!Lam!gives!a!short!description!of!the!Electrical!Engineering!Technical!Breadth!and!recommends!3!enriching!EE!courses!to!participants!!

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Participants!listen!in!to!TBA!advice!after!pizza!refreshments.!!

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5.5 Grad!School!Night!Project!Date:! 5/14/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 27!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 30!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 35!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 14!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


As!part!of!TBP’s!mentorship!event!series,!the!Graduate!School!Night!invited!UCLA!PhD!and!Masters!students,! as!well! as! seniors! embarking! on! graduate! school! from! all! engineering! disciplines! to! talk!about!graduate! school! to!engineering! students.! The!event! kicked!off!with!a!panel!discussion,!with!questions!compiled!and!made!concise!from!participant!responses!to!a!survey!conducted!before!the!event.!Each!question!was!representatively!answered!by!grad,!masters,!and!senior!students,!so!as!to!achieve! a! balance! in! viewpoints.! A! breakout! session! soon! followed,! with!major1specific! questions!answered!by!mentors!who!were!of!the!major.!!


The!event!fulfilled!the!mentorship!component!of!TBP,!as!it!harnessed!the!experience!of!seniors!and!graduate! students! by! giving! them! a! platform! to! advise! undergraduate! students! about! graduate!school.!The!event!successfully!communicated!to!students!the!grad!school!experience,!the!reasons!to!go!to!grad!school,!as!well!as!tips!and!tricks!to!do!well!in!the!application!process!and!stand!out!from!the!crowd.!These!advice,!both!personal!and!generic,!are!immensely!valuable!to!undergraduates,!as!grad!school! is!an! important!choice!which!would!affect! their!career!prospects!and!their! future.!The!students!were!also!able!to!network!with!graduate!school!students.!These!fulfill!the!objectives!of!TBP!as!an!organization!committed!to!giving!back!to!the!engineering!community.!!


Pizza!was!provided.!The!event!involved!many!TBP!officers!and!was!thus!manpower1heavy.!!!

IV. !SPECIAL!PROBLEMS!

None.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!participants!were!extremely!satisfied!with!the!event!as!all!engineering!disciplines!were!represented.!Furthermore,!the!panelists!and!mentors!were!delighted!to!see!the!large!turnout,!which!meant!that!they!could!impact!others!by!advising!them!about!grad!school.!!!

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5.6 !Company!Information!Sessions!

5.6.1 University!of!Michigan!Ann!Arbor!Information!Session!Project!Date:! 10/15/2014!Project!Area:! Civil!Conference!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 20!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!BMES,!UCLA!SWE,!University!of!Michigan!Ann!Arbor!


With!the!help!of!the!above!organizations,!our!chapter!held!an!event!sponsored!by!the!University!of!Michigan!Ann!Arbor!targeting!undergraduates!in!engineering!interested!in!the!engineering!graduate!program!at!Michigan!Ann!Arbor.!The!event!was!also! to!discuss!summer!research!opportunities! for!non1senior! attendees.! The! event! consisted! of! a! representative! from! University! of! Michigan! Ann!Arbor! coming! in! and! hosting! a! 21hour! long! presentation! and! networking! event! for! all! interested!students.!TBP!played!the!role!of!online!marketing!in!this!project.!The!event!was!open!to!all!majors,!and!included!engineering!students!and!non1engineering!students.!!


This!event!provided!all! students! (engineering!and!non1engineering)! the!opportunity! to! learn!about!both!research!opportunities!as!well!as!graduate!school!opportunities!with!the!University!of!Michigan!Ann!Arbor.!Co1hosting!the!information!session!helped!publicize!Tau!Beta!Pi!to!students!and!provide!an!opportunity!for!us!to!work!closely!with!two!major!engineering!groups!in!the!engineering!school,!SWE!and!BMES,! and! contribute! to! a!positive! relationship! for! future! collaboration.!We!also!helped!connect!UCLA!engineering!school!more!closely!with!a!prestigious!engineering!program,!hopefully!the!beginning!of!a!better!relationship!between!UCLA!and!University!of!Michigan!at!Ann!Arbor.!!


No!costs.!The!only!costs!were!taken!up!by!the!representative!from!the!University!of!Michigan!Ann!Arbor.!Most! of! the! event! planning!was! split! up! between! SWE! and!BMES,! leaving!marketing! to! be!done!by!TBP.!This!consisted!of!social!media!and!email!blasts!through!our!list1serve!and!various!other!groups!TBP!has!a!relationship!with.!!


No! special! programs,! but! TBP! member! attendance! was! low.! Moreover,! due! to! some! scheduling!difficulty,! the! TBP! representative! helping! plan! the! event! could! not! set! up! a! sign! in! sheet! quickly!enough!to!register!all!attendees!at!the!event.!!

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V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!a!great!success,!considering!that!the!event!only!allowed!for!~1!week!of!marketing.!It!was!also!difficult! to! fill!up!due!to!the!scheduling!as!other!significant!events!happened!at! the!same!time!and!day.!We!also!could!not!have!our!candidates!come!in!and!attend,!as!it!was!before!initiation.!However,!despite!these!circumstances,!target!attendance!was!good,!as!the!room!was!nearly!filled!up!(all!seats!full).!The!representative!was!very!happy!at!the!turnout!and!the!variety!of!different!majors!and! studies! in! attendance.! The! only! mishap! was! the! low! rate! of! attendance! of! TBP!members! or!candidates.!

5.6.2 Southern!California!Edison!Information!Session!Project!Date:! 10/15/2014!Project!Area:! UCLA!Campus!(Boelter!Hall!5800)!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 20!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 3!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


TBP! collaborated!with!Ms.! Rachel! de! St! Jean,! a! UCLA! Alumni,! to! host! an! information! session! and!workshop! for! Southern! California! Edison.! Rachel! presented! facts! about! her! companies! and!employment!opportunities!across!various!disciplines!to!a!group!of!over!twenty!students!majoring!in!electrical,!mechanical,! or! chemical! engineering.! She! also! led! a! workshop! for! resume! building! and!professional! development,! including! an! interactive! section! where! students! were! prompted! to!answer!tricky! interview!questions.!TBP!played!the!role!of!planning,!marketing,!and!logistics!for!this!event.!!!


This!event!provided!a!wide!range!of!engineering!students!from!multiple!disciplines!the!opportunity!to! both! learn! about! employment! opportunities! at! Southern! California! Edison! and! develop!professionally!through!the!workshop!led!by!the!recruiter.!It!a!part!of!our!chapter’s!continuing!effort!focus!on!corporate!relations! in!our!events!and!activities!and! increase!networking!opportunities! for!our!members.!The!event!was!also!hosted!to!uphold!one!of!the!benefits!our!chapter!had!guaranteed!to!Southern!California!Edison!for!being!a!part!of!our!sponsorship!program.!By!holding!this!event,!TBP!CA!Epsilon!had!hopefully!solidified!the!sponsor1chapter!relation!with!SoCal!Edison,!and!it!will!provide!grounds!for!our!chapter!to!further!expand!our!sponsorship!program!to!other!companies.!!!!!


$57.00!was!spent!on!providing!Domino!Pizzas!for!all!attendees.!Because!TBP!is!the!soul!organizer!of!this!event,!we!were!in!charged!of!room!reservation,!logistics!preparations,!publicity,!and!post1event!follow!up!with!the!company!representative!and!event!attendees.!!

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Attendance!exceeded!the!initial!number!of!10115!people!requested!by!the!company!representative,!with!a!total!of!23!people!attending!the!event.!Due!to!limited!budget,!the!food!provided!at!the!event!was!barely!substantial!in!feeding!all!present.!But!the!event!still!ran!smoothly!overall.!!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!a!great! success,! considering! that! the!event!only!allowed! for!~1!week!of!marketing.!Despite! conflicting! with! other! major! events! (both! from! our! own! chapter! and! other! engineering!student! organizations),! attendance! was! high! with! the! room! nearly! filled! up! (all! seats! full).! The!representative!and!students!alike!were!very!happy!with!the!overall!quality!of!the!presentation,!with!engaging!and!interesting!interactions!between!both!sides.!Students!also!had!the!chance!to!network!with!the!recruiter!on!a!one1on1one!basis!following!the!end!of!the!main!part!of!the!event.!Overall,!a!very!successful!event.!!!

VI. EXHIBITS!! !

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5.6.3 Navy!Information!Session!Project!Date:! 2/11/2015!Project!Area:! Engineering!IV,!UCLA!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 1!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 3!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! AIChE!


The!US!Navy! is! recruiting! engineers! for! their! undergraduate!Nuclear! Propulsion!Officer! Candidate!Program.! !This!program!is!one!of!the!top!nuclear!programs! in!the!country!and! is!geared!towards!a!wide!range!of!engineering!disciplines,!thus!applies!to!most!of!the!members!in!Tau!Beta!Pi.!!


As! part! of! Tau! Beta! Pi’s! objective! of! increasing! post1graduation! opportunities,! we! wanted! to!introduce!more!companies!to!our!members.!We!also!took!this!opportunity!to!expand!our!network!and! connections! with! industry! representatives! as! we! look! forward! to! strengthen! our! relationship!with!industry!recruiters.!!


All! costs! were! handled! by! the! US! Navy.! The! event! required! another! officer! to! greet! the!representatives!as!both!corporate!relations!officer!had!a!class!conflict!during!the!event.!!


No!special!problem.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The! event! did! not! receive! a! positive! response! and! did! not! havea! good! turn! out.! Only! one! TBP!member!and!several!AIChE!offers!attended!the!info!session.!

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5.6.4 Covidien!Information!Session!Project!Date:! 2/19/2014!Project!Area:! Corporate!Relations!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 39!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! BMES,!ISPE!


The! Irvine! office! of! Covidien! is! a! part! of! a! global! healthcare! company!with! a! focus! on! biomedical!devices.! In! this! event,! company! representatives! and! recruiters! gave! a! presentation! with! a! brief!overview!of! company’s!history,!mission,! and!engineering! services.!Details! about! the!nine!available!summer! internship! positions! were! also! given.! Afterwards,! the! founder! of! Network! Kinection,!Mr.!Erick!Briggs,!also!gave!a!presentation!about!job!hunting!strategies!in!today’s!job!market.!!!


Aligning! with! the! chapter’s! goal! to! expand! our! corporate! relations! sector,! this! event! serves! to!provide! our!members!with!more! recruiting! opportunities! and! to! strengthen! our! relationship!with!Covidien.! This! collaboration!with!BMES! and! ISPE! also! generated! a! cooperative! relationship! among!the!three!organizations.!!!


The!Subway!sandwiches!served!at!the!event!cost!each!participating!club!$45.33.!Setup!and!cleanup!required!30!minutes!of!the!participating!officers!before!and!after!the!event.!Planning!and!discussion!took!a!total!of!approximately!1!hour.!!!!


The!food!arrived!later!than!anticipated,!so!food!wasn’t!served!until!after!the!end!of!the!event!around!9PM.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!had!a!good!turnout!with!39!participants.!The!audience!was!well!engaged!and!interested!during!the!presentation.!At!the!end,!every!student!had!a!chance!to!speak!to!a!recruiter!and!submit!a!resume.!The!event!ran!smoothly!according!to!schedule,!and!there!was!no!conflict!noted!among!the!three!organizations’!collaboration.!!

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5.7 !Engineering!Futures!

5.7.1 Fall!Engineering!Futures!Project!Date:! 11/15/2014!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 4!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 58!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Every! quarter,! candidates!must! participate! in! an! Engineering! Futures!module! in! order! to! initiate.!!This! module,! taught! by! Scott! Eckersall! –! a! District! 16! Director! –! instructed! students! on! Team!Chartering,! which! covered! team! dynamics! and!what! factors! help! teams!work! well! together.! ! The!candidates!were!divided!between!two!2.51hour!sessions.!!


Tau! Beta! Pi!member! are! not! only! qualified!within! their! engineering! disciplines,! but! are! also!well1rounded! individuals!equipped!with! the! soft! skills!necessary! for!a! successful! career.! !By! completing!this!module,! these! candidates! are! better! prepared! to!work! in! a! team! environment.! ! Additionally,!Engineering!Futures!illustrates!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!commitment!to!provide!resources!to!grow!its!members.!!


Subway!sandwiches!were!provided!for!all!participants!at!an!approximate!cost!of!$150.!!A!few!hours!were!spent!to!contact!those!involved!and!to!organize!the!event.!!


Although!a!different!module!had!been!planned,!Scott!advised!us!that!2.5!hours!would!not!be!enough!time! for! the!number!of!candidates! involved.! ! In! the! future,!at! least!3!hours!should!be!allotted!per!session.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Engineering!Futures!will!continue!to!be!part!of!the!requirements!for!candidates.!!This!event!was!well1received!by!and!provides!a!useful!training!course!for!a!majority!of!candidates.!

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5.7.2 Spring!Engineering!Futures!Project!Date:! 5/9/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!Hall!4760!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 4!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 34!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Every! quarter,! candidates!must! participate! in! an! Engineering! Futures!module! in! order! to! initiate.!!This!module,!taught!by!Scott!Fable!–!a!District!Director!from!outside!our!district!–!instructed!students!on!People!Skills!!The!candidates!were!divided!between!two!2.51hour!sessions.!!


Tau! Beta! Pi!member! are! not! only! qualified!within! their! engineering! disciplines,! but! are! also!well1rounded! individuals!equipped!with! the! soft! skills!necessary! for!a! successful! career.! !By!completing!this!module,! these! candidates! are! better! prepared! to!work! in! a! team! environment.! ! Additionally,!Engineering!Futures!illustrates!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!commitment!to!provide!resources!to!grow!its!members.!!


Lunch!was!provided!for!all!participants!at!our!chapter’s!expense.!!A!few!hours!were!spent!to!contact!those!involved!and!to!organize!the!event.!!


Due! to! a! room!booking!mishap,!we!were! unable! to! have! the! event! in! the! usual! location! (Boelter!Penthouse).! ! Instead,! it!was!held! in!Boelter!Hall!4760,!which! is!a!smaller!room.! !Luckily,! the!spring!initiation! class! size! is! smaller! than! in! fall,! and! the! new! room! still! provided! ample! space! for! the!sessions.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Engineering!Futures!will!continue!to!be!part!of!the!requirements!for!candidates.!!This!event!was!well1received!by!and!provides!a!useful!training!course!for!a!majority!of!candidates.!

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5.8 !Academic!Outreach!

5.8.1 Fall!Math!32A!Biweekly!Review!Session!1!Project!Date:! 11/5/2014!Project!Area:! Covel!Commons!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 20!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 6!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!Residential!Life!


The! purpose! of! this! event!was! to! help! students! review! arc! length! and! curvature! topics! from! two!weeks! after! the! first! midterm.! The! event! took! place! in! the! dorming! area! with! help! from! UCLA!Residential! Life.! Volunteers! presented! relevant! material! and! did! guided! examples,! and! halfway!through,!the!room!was!split!in!half!and!volunteers!helped!students!on!questions!they!had.!!


This!event!allowed!us!to!collaborate!with!UCLA!Residential!Life!as!well!as!with!professors!to!ensure!stronger!connections!to!further!the!education!of!the!students!both!in!the!engineering!school!as!well!as!at!UCLA! in!general.!Additionally,! it!served!as!a!means!of!publicizing!Tau!Beta!Pi,!particularly!the!tutoring!program.!!!


There!was!no!cost!for!this!event.!!!


One!of!the!biggest!problems!we!had!for!this!event!was!getting!the!room!open!for!us.!The!door!was!locked! and! we! had! to! ask! Covel! dispatch! to! contact! Covel! housekeeping! to! open! the! door.! This!method! involved! convincing! Covel! dispatch! to! cooperate!with! us,!which! is! sometimes! easier! than!other!times.!!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

In!general,!the!event!went!well.!About!20!students!came,!which!allowed!us!to!use!the!tables!in!the!room,!and!it!was!also!easy!to!split!the!room!into!two!sections!after!the!initial!presentations.!By!doing!so,!we!were!able!to!better!serve!the!students’!needs.!

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5.8.2 Fall!Math!32A!Midterm!1!Review!Session!Project!Date:! 10/19/2014!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 174!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 10!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!Residential!Life!


The! purpose! of! this! event! was! to! help! students! review! vector! and! vector1valued! functions! topics!from!the!first!two!weeks!of!class!before!their!first!midterm.!The!event!took!place!in!the!dorming!area!with! help! from! UCLA! Residential! Life.! Volunteers! presented! relevant! material! and! did! guided!examples!as!well!as!helped!as!one1on1one!tutors!in!the!back!of!the!room.!!






One!of!the!biggest!problems!we!had!for!this!event!was!being!able!to!project!and!write!large!enough!for!everyone!in!the!room!to!hear.!This!is!the!opposite!problem!from!what!we!had!last!year:!then,!we!had!a!smaller!room!and!not!enough!room!for!everyone!to!fit.!The! other! major! issue! that! we! encountered! was! figuring! out! how! to! best! accommodate! all! the!students.! As! they!were! all! from! different! classes,! the! professors! had! gone! at! different! speeds,! so!some!students!had!certain!topics!covered!that!other!students’!hadn’t.!We!were!unable!to!take!this!into! account! as!we!were! simply! going!off! the!professors’! syllabi,!which!did!not! specify! topics! that!would! be! covered! on! the!midterms.! Furthermore,! one! of! the! professors! (Professor! Chayes)! gives!very!proof1heavy!homework,!so!in!the!interest!of!the!other!students,!we!decided!not!to!go!over!too!many!proofs.!Also,!one!of!the!professors!does!not!have!a!midterm!until!fourth!week,!so!they!were!not!as!well1served.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

In! general,! the! event! went! well.! There! was! a! large! turnout,! but! we! ran! into! difficulties! trying! to!project!and!write!large!enough!for!everyone!to!see.!Furthermore,!we!ran!into!students!asking!lots!of!follow1up! questions! that! slowed! down! the! pace! of! the! review! session! significantly,! causing! other!

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students!to!be!bored!and!chatter!among!themselves.!This!was!better!monitored!in!the!second!half!of!the!review!session.!Students!seemed!very!happy!with!the!one1on1one!tutors!in!the!back!as!they!were!able!to!get!a!lot!of!individual!questions!answered.!!!

VI. EXHIBITS!! !

!One!of!the!volunteers!presenting!an!equations!of!planes!example!

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5.8.3 Fall!Math!32A!Midterm!2!Review!Session!Project!Date:! 11/16/2014!Project!Area:! Northwest!Campus!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 40!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 9!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!Residential!Life!


The! purpose! of! this! event! was! to! help! students! review! material! before! their! second! midterm,!including!arc!length,!curvature,!motion!in!3D!space,!limits!and!continuity!with!multiple!variables.!The!event! took! place! in! the! dorming! area!with! help! from!UCLA!Residential! Life.! Volunteers! presented!relevant!material!and!did!guided!examples,!and!those!not!currently!presenting!helped!students!one1on1one!with!individual!questions.!!






One!of!the!biggest!problems!we!had!for!this!event!was!getting!the!room!open!for!us.!Although!we!had!booked!!Northwest!Campus!Auditorium!ahead!of!time,!the!room!was!not!open!at!6:30PM!as!it!should!have!been.!This!caused!us!to!need!to!run!around!the!dorming!area!to!try!and!get!the!room!open.! Eventually,! Sproul! housekeeping! came! to! open! up! the! door,! but! this! did! not! happen! until!around!6:55,!five!minutes!before!the!session!was!supposed!to!officially!start.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

In!general,! the!event!went!well.!One!of!the!biggest!things!we!noticed!was!the!sharp!decline! in!the!number!of!attendees.!This! is!most! likely!due!to! the! fact! that!one!of! the!professors!does!not! teach!from!the!book!as! the!other!professors!did.!As!a! result,! it!was!very!difficult! to!accommodate! these!students!as!the!material!they!would!need!to!know!did!not!help!the!students!from!the!other!classes.!We!decided!the!best!approach!would!be!to!cover!material!that!should!be!relevant!to!everyone!–!arc!length!parametrization,!curvature!and!finding!the!equation!of!an!osculating!circle,!etc.!!!!

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!Volunteers!helping!out!a!student!after!the!review!session!

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5.8.4 Fall!Math!32A!Biweekly!Review!Session!2!Project!Date:! 12/3/2014!Project!Area:! Covel!Commons!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 20!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 6!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!Residential!Life!


The!purpose!of! this!event!was! to!help! students! review!differentiability,!directional!derivatives!and!tangent!planes,!and!linearization!topics!from!two!weeks!after!the!second!midterm.!The!event!took!place! in! the! dorming! area! with! help! from! UCLA! Residential! Life.! Volunteers! presented! relevant!material!and!did!guided!examples,!and!halfway!through,! the!room!was!split! in!half!and!volunteers!helped!students!on!questions!they!had.!!






The!event!went!very! smoothly.!Many!students!asked! for!additional!questions,! though,!and!we!did!not!have!many!prepared!for!them.!Ideally,!we!should!have!a!bank!of!questions!prepared!for!each!of!the! topics! that! the!volunteers!understand!well! just! in!case!we!need!more!material.!Also,!we!were!unable!to!use!a!sign1in!sheet!due!to!technical!difficulties.!Although!this!did!not!affect!the!event!as!a!whole,!we!were!unable!to!receive!the!desired!data.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

In!general,!the!event!went!well.!About!20!students!came,!which!allowed!us!to!use!the!tables!in!the!room,!and!it!was!also!easy!to!split!the!room!into!two!sections!after!the!initial!presentations.!By!doing!so,!we!were!able!to!better!serve!the!students’!needs.!!!!!!!!

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!A!volunteer!presenting!a!problem!to!the!students!

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5.8.5 Fall!Math!31B!Review!Session!1!Project!Date:! 10/21/2014!Project!Area:! Covel!210!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 111!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 3!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!Residential!Life!


We!held!a! review!session! for!Math!31B.!This! review!session!was!conducted! in!preparation! for! the!class’s!first!midterm.!The!review!session!was!2!hours!long.!The!first!half!was!a!lecture!presentation!with!some!guided!example!problems.!The!second!half!consisted!of!more!example!problems.!During!the!second!hour,!students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!meet!one1on1one!with!our!tutors.!The!review!session!ran!from!7pm19pm.!!!


This! review!session!benefited! the! lower!division!students! in!Math!31B.!This! followed!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!objective! to! support! our! peers! and! enhance! the! engineering! community! at! UCLA.! This! event! also!exposed!lower!division!students!to!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!name!and!tutoring!program.!!


Responsibilities! were! amongst! the! 3! volunteers! and! the! Academic! Outreach! chair.! The! Academic!Outreach! chair!was! responsible! for! administrative! tasks.! In! addition,! the!Academic!Outreach! chair!helped! the! volunteers! run! the! review! session.! Volunteers!were! responsible! for! understanding! the!material,! preparing!material! including! practice! problems,! and! presenting! the!material! and! leading!the!review!session.!!


This!review!session!was!down1sized!because!we!could!not!reserve!a!large!enough!room.!We!tried!to!book!De!Neve!Auditorium!but! at! the! last!minute!we! could! not! get! the! room.!Because!of! this,!we!limited!the!review!session!to!only!2!of!the!4!lectures!for!Math!31B.!This!was!a!problem!because!we!had!way!more!students!show!up!than!anticipated.!We!ended!up!being!able!to!fit!almost!everyone,!but!had!to!send!a!few!students!away.!For!students!that!came!after!the!room!filled!up,!we!took!their!email!addresses!down!and!sent!them!the!material!after!the!review!session!so!they!could!review!on!their!own!time.!!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!We!got!good!feedback!from!students.!We!were!able!to!hold!the!review!session!for!a!large!number!of!students!and!had!room!for!most!of!them.!!!

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We!held!a!review!session!for!Math!31B.!This!review!session!was!conducted!as!a!general!review!for!the!material!covered!after!the!first!midterm.!The!review!session!was!1!hour!long.!The!first!half!was!a!lecture! presentation! with! some! guided! example! problems.! The! second! half! consisted! of! more!example!problems.!During!the!second!hour,!students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!meet!one1on1one!with!our!tutors.!The!review!session!ran!from!8pm19pm.!!!






Since! the! students!didn’t!have!a!midterm! in! the!near! future,!not!as!many! students!attended.!One!main!problem!we!had!was!that!the!room!was!not!open!when!we!arrived.!We!went!to!the!Covel!front!desk!to!get!the!room!opened,!but!they!did!not!have!us!on!the!schedule.!Luckily,!they!eventually!let!us!in.!After!contacting!Paul,!he!told!us!that!we!no!longer!had!the!room!on!Tuesday!nights!and!that!he!forgot!to!tell!us!of!the!change.!!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!We!got!good!feedback!from!students.!Since!there!were!a!such!a!small!number!of!students,!we!were!able!to!work!more!personally!with!the!students.!A!good!number!of!students!came!to!the!TBP!tutoring!room!the!next!week!because!they!heard!about!it!at!our!review!session.!!

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5.8.7 Fall!Math!31B!Review!Session!3!Project!Date:! 11/19/2014!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 34!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 3!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!Residential!Life!


We!held!a! review!session! for!Math!31B.!This! review!session!was!conducted! in!preparation! for! the!class’s! second! midterm.! The! review! session! was! 2! hours! long.! The! first! half! was! a! lecture!presentation! with! some! guided! example! problems.! The! second! half! consisted! of! more! example!problems.!During!the!second!hour,!students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!meet!one1on1one!with!our!tutors.!The!review!session!ran!from!7pm19pm.!!!






The!main!problem!we!had!was!that!the!room!was!not!open!when!we!got!there.!After!talking!with!the!front!desk,!they!were!able!to!open!it!for!us!before!the!start!of!the!review!session.!Another!problem!was! that! we! had! prepared! a! good! portion! of! material! that! was! not! on! the! students’! midterms.!Because!of! this,!we!didn’t!have!enough!material! to!cover! the!entire! two!hours,! so!we!had! to! take!practice!problems!from!the!students!and!come!up!with!solutions!on!the!fly.!Another!problem!we!had!was! that! since! the! room! was! a! lot! bigger,! it! was! harder! for! the! students! to! hear! the! lecturer,!especially!for!volunteers!with!quiet!voices.!!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!We!got!good!feedback!from!students.!We!were!able!to!hold!the!review!session!for!a!large!number!of!students!and!had!room!for!all!of!them.!!

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We!held!a!review!session!for!Math!31B.!This!review!session!was!conducted!as!a!general!review!for!the!material! covered!after! the!second!midterm.!The! review!session!was!1!hour! long.!The! first!half!was!a!lecture!presentation!with!some!guided!example!problems.!The!second!half!consisted!of!more!example!problems.!During!the!second!hour,!students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!meet!one1on1one!with!our!tutors.!The!review!session!ran!from!8pm19pm.!!!

VI. RELATIONSHIP!TO!OBJECTIVES!OF!TAU!BETA!PI!


VII. COST!AND!PERSONAL!REQUIREMENTS!


VIII. SPECIAL!PROBLEMS!

Since! the! students!didn’t!have!a!midterm! in! the!near! future,!not!as!many! students!attended.!One!main!problem!we!had!was!that!the!room!was!not!open!when!we!arrived.!We!went!to!the!Covel!front!desk!to!get!the!room!opened,!but!they!did!not!have!us!on!the!schedule.!Luckily,!they!eventually!let!us! in.! ! Since! this! was! the! last! review! session,! our! volunteers! were! very! good! at! presenting! the!material!because!they!had!experience!from!the!previous!sessions.!!!

IX. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!We!got!good!feedback!from!students.!Since!there!were!such!a!small!number!of!students,!we!were!able!to!work!more!personally!with!the!students.!A!good!number!of!students!came!to!the!TBP!tutoring!room!the!next!week!because!they!heard!about!it!at!our!review!session.!

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5.8.9 Winter!Chemistry!20B!Review!Session!1!Project!Date:! 1/28/2015!Project!Area:! Northwest!Campus!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 80!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 6!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


The!purpose!of!this!event!was!to!prepare!students!for!their!Chem!20B!midterm!the!next!day.!First,!conceptual! information! was! covered! briefly,! then,! for! the! bulk! of! the! two! hour! review! session,!example!problems!were!presented!and!explained.!Students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!ask!specific!questions!throughout.!!!


This!session!helped!lower!division!students,!mostly!freshman,!in!Chem!20B,!a!class!required!for!most!engineering!students.!This!contributed!to!our!goal!of!enhancing!the!engineering!community!at!UCLA,!as!well!as!increasing!publicity!for!Tau!Beta!Pi!among!physical!science!and!engineering!students.!!


Responsibilities!of!participating!members!included!making!brief!presentations!of!general!concepts!as!well!as!preparing!and!solving!original!example!problems.!In!addition,!members!were!required!to!be!well!versed!in!the!course!material!so!they!could!confidently!answer!any!questions!they!were!asked.!Duties!were!split!evenly!among!the!members.!!!!


One!problem!was!that!the!room!was!initially!locked!and!the!Office!of!Residential!Life!was!closed,!so!we!had!to!wait!almost!fifteen!minutes!for!somebody!to!open!the!door.!Also,!the!sign1in!process!took!a! long!time,!but!students!seemed!willing!to!wait!when!they!heard!that!notes!would!be!emailed!to!everyone!who!signed!in.!We!did!not!have!time!to!go!over!all!the!practice!problems!we!had!planned,!but!this!was!anticipated,!so!we!covered!the!most!important!material!first.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULT!

Overall,! the! session!was! very! successful,! and!although! some! students! left! early,! those!who! stayed!seemed!very!appreciative.!All!students!were!accommodated!in!the!room,!and!were!able!to!see!and!hear!the!presentation.!!Students!seemed!appreciative!at!the!end!of!the!review!session.!!!!

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5.8.10 Winter!Chemistry!20B!Review!Session!2!Project!Date:! 2/10/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 25!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


This!event!prepared!students!for!the!Chem!20B!midterm!the!next!day.!Following!the!same!pattern!as!similar! review! sessions,! the! first! thirty!minutes!or! so!was! spent! reviewing! conceptual! information,!while! the! remainder! of! the! two! hour! review! session! was! spent! going! over! example! problems!prepared!by!the!participating!members.!!!


Since!many!of!the!students!in!Chem!20B!are!engineering!students,!and!most!engineering!students!at!UCLA!have!to!take!Chem!20B,!this!session!enhanced!the!engineering!community!at!UCLA.!Sessions!were!held!for!Chem!20B!during!winter!quarter!as!this!is!the!quarter!most!freshman!take!the!class.!!


Participating!members!were!required!to!prepare!sample!problems!and!be!prepared!to!explain!them!thoroughly.! In! addition,! they! were! required! to! have! a! relatively! complete! understanding! of! the!relevant!material,!so!any!questions!could!be!answered!completely.!!!


The! main! problem! with! this! review! session! was! the! low! attendance.! Because! this! session! was!designed! towards! a! midterm! that! only! about! one! third! of! the! Chem! 20B! students! had,! a! lower!turnout!was!expected,!but!this!turnout!was!disproportionately! low!compared!to!the!first!Chem20B!review!session.!Another!problem!was!that!some!students!arrived!late,!and!thus!were!unable!to!sign!in.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,! the! review! session! was! a! success,! and! the! students! who! attended! seemed! engaged,!especially!when!working! through!difficult!example!problems.! !Although!the! room!was!much! larger!than!needed!for!a!small!group,!the!students!all!sat!in!the!first!few!rows,!and!were!not!afraid!to!ask!questions.!!

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5.8.11 Winter!Chemistry!20B!Review!Session!3!Project!Date:! 2/23/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 84!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 10!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


This!review!session!focused!on!material!to!be!covered!on!the!Chem!20B!midterm!that!week.!Since!the!material!was!very!computation!based,! the!entire! review!session!was!spent!going!over!practice!problems,!rather!than!some!combination!of!that!and!conceptual!discussion.!With!such!a!large!group,!the!session!was!held!in!the!style!of!a!lecture,!but!with!brief!pauses!to!answer!questions!throughout.!!!


Since!many!of!the!students!in!Chem!20B!are!engineering!students,!and!most!engineering!students!at!UCLA! are! required! to! take!Chem!20B,! this! session! enhanced! the! engineering! community! at!UCLA.!Sessions!were!held!for!Chem!20B!during!winter!quarter!as!this!is!the!quarter!most!freshman!take!the!class.!!


Participating!members!were!required!to!prepare!sample!problems!and!be!prepared!to!explain!them!thouroughly.! In! addition,! they! were! required! to! have! a! relatively! complete! understanding! of! the!relevant!material,!so!any!questions!could!be!answered!completely.!!!


The!only!problem!with! this! review! session!was!having!enough!example!problems! to! fill! the!entire!two! hours.! Students! did! not! ask! many! questions,! dispite! the! difficult! nature! of! the! problems!presented,!so!the!members!participating!had!to!choose!which!parts!of!the!problems!to!describe! in!more! detail! based! on! which! parts! they! predicted! students! would! have! the! most! problems! with,!which!is!not!ideal.!!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The! review! session! was! a! great! success.! Participating! members! demonstrated! a! comprehensive!knowledge!of! the!material!covered!and!were!able! to!work! through!problems!difficult!and!relevant!enough! to!keep!most! tutees!engaged! throughout.!Attendees!were!very!appreciative!of! the! review!and!asked!where! they! could!get!more!help! from!TBP!members.! These!attendees!were! told!of! the!tutoring!program!and!how!to!find!which!times!were!appropriate!for!which!classes.!!

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5.8.12 Winter!Chemistry!20B!Review!Session!4!Project!Date:! 3/10/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Birch!1!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 65!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 10!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


This!was!a!review!session!covering!material!from!the!course!Chem!20B:!Energistics!and!Change.!The!bulk!of!the!session!focused!on!material!covered!in!the!last!three!chapters!of!the!course,!as!those!are!more! likely! to! appear! on! the! final! exam.!Other! topics,! specifically! thermodynamics,!were! covered!after!conceptual!information!and!practice!problems!for!the!final!three!chapters!had!been!covered.!!


Since!many!of!the!students!in!Chem!20B!are!engineering!students,!and!most!engineering!students!at!UCLA!d!to!take!Chem!20B,!this!session!enhanced!the!engineering!community!at!UCLA.!Sessions!were!held!for!Chem!20B!during!winter!quarter!as!this!is!the!quarter!most!freshman!take!the!class.!!


Participating!members!were!required!to!prepare!sample!problems!and!a!brief!review!of!concepts!for!their!assigned!chapter!and!be!prepared!to!explain!them!thouroughly.!In!addition,!they!were!required!to! have! a! relatively! complete! understanding! of! the! relevant! material,! so! any! questions! could! be!answered! completely.! Other! than! this! all! that!was! required!was! approximately! 2.5! hours! of! their!Tuesday!evening.!!!


The!main!problem!for!this!review!session!was!a!lack!of!space.!Thinking!attendance!would!be!lower!because! of! how! early! the! review! session! was! before! the! final,! we! only! reserved! a! study! lounge,!rather!than!an!auditorium.!The!space!had!approximately!30!chairs,!compared!to!65!attendees,!which!left! many! standing! or! sitting! on! the! floor.! This! will! be! remedied! in! the! future! by! reserving! an!auditorium!for!10th!week!review!sessions.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The! review! session! as! a! whole! was! a! success.! All! participating!members! were! well! versed! in! the!topics!to!be!covered,!and!were!able!to!sufficiently!answer!all!specific!questions!raised!by!attendees.!Students! seemed! to! be! appreciative! of! and! engaged! in! the! review! session.! As! expected,! students!were!most!engaged!when!difficult!problems!were!being!worked!through.!

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5.8.13 Winter!Physics!1A!Midterm!1!Review!Session!Project!Date:! 1/25/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 127!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


We!held! a! three1hour! review! session! for!Physics! 1A! students! for! the! class’s! first!midterm.!We!did!practice!problems!from!past!midterms!during!the!first!two!and!a!half!hours.!The!last!half!an!hour!was!used! to! answer! specific! questions! that! students! had,! as! in! an! office! hour.! The! review! session! ran!from!6:3019:30!p.m.!!!


The!review!session!benefited!lower!division!students!in!Physics!1A,!following!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!objective!to! support! our! peers! and! enhance! the! engineering! community! at! UCLA.! This! event! also! exposed!underclassmen!to!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!name!and!tutoring!program.!!!


Responsibilities! were! split! amongst! the! participating! members.! Each! member! wrote! 213! practice!problems!with!solutions!that!relates!to!a!midterm!topic.!The!lead!was!responsible!for!meeting!with!professors!and!sending!RSVP!forms!inquiring!students!of!special!focus!areas.!The!lead!then!picked!5!problems!based!on!student!feedback!to!be!covered!during!the!review!session.!!!!


Since! this!was! the! first! review!session!of! the!quarter,!we!had! trouble! finding! the!white!board!and!wasted! several!minutes! preparing! for! the! review! session.! As! such,!many! students! began! to! leave!before!it!even!started.!To!fix!this,!it!is!recommended!to!get!to!the!meeting!place!30!minutes!before!the! start! of! the! session! for! preparation.! Moreover,! the! problem! statements! were! sent! out! to!students!who!responded!to!the!RSVP,!and!only!30!copies!were!printed.!This!left!many!students!with!no!problems!to!look!at,!since!there!is!poor!reception!in!the!auditorium.!It!is!recommended!to!print!enough!copies!for!all!students!who!RSVP,!plus!a!little!extra!for!those!who!come!without!responding!to!the!RSVP!e1mail.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!A!lot!of!students!said!it!was!helpful!and!would!come!again.!We!were!able!to!hold!a!review!session!for!a!large!number!of!students!for!three!of!four!Physics!1A!professors.!A!good!number!of!students!came!to!the!TBP!tutoring!room!the!next!after!hearing!about!it!at!our!review!session.!

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5.8.14 Winter!Physics!1A!Review!Session!2!Project!Date:! 2/11/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Birch!1!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 5!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


We!held!an!one1hour! review!session! for!Physics!1A!students! from!819!p.m.!This!was! treated!as!an!office!hour!for!students!to!ask!any!questions!they!have!on!the!topics!that!have!been!covered!during!the! first! 4! weeks! or! for! any! homework! help.! However,! we! did! prepare! some! practice! problems!because!of!student!requests!in!the!RSVP!form.!!!!




Responsibilities! were! split! amongst! the! participating! members.! Each! member! wrote! a! problem!relating! to! the! current! topic! that! is! being! covered.! The! lead! was! responsible! for! meeting! with!professors!and!sending!RSVP!forms!inquiring!students!of!special!focus!areas.!!!


Since!this!was!our!first!time!using!De!Neve!Birch!1!Lounge!for!a!review!session,!students!had!trouble!finding! the! location.! As! such,! not! a! lot! of! students! who! RSVPed! ended! up! showing! up.! It! is!recommended!to!give!directions!to!the!room!next!time.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!A!lot!of!students!said!it!was!helpful!and!would!come!again.!We!were!able!to!hold!a!review!session!for!a!large!number!of!students!for!three!of!four!Physics!1A! professors.! A! good! number! of! students! came! to! the! TBP! tutoring! room! the! next! after! hearing!about!it!at!our!review!session.!

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5.8.15 Winter!Physics!1A!Midterm!2!Review!Session!Project!Date:! 2/22/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 98!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


We!held!a!three1hour!review!session!for!Physics!1A!students!for!the!class’s!second!midterm.!We!did!practice!problems!from!past!midterms!during!the!first!two!and!a!half!hours.!The!last!half!an!hour!was!used! to! answer! specific! questions! that! students! had,! as! in! an! office! hour.! The! review! session! ran!from!6:3019:30!p.m.!!!




Responsibilities! were! split! amongst! the! participating! members.! Each! member! wrote! 213! practice!problems!with!solutions!that!relates!to!a!midterm!topic.!The!lead!was!responsible!for!meeting!with!professors!and!sending!RSVP!forms!inquiring!students!of!special!focus!areas.!The!lead!then!picked!5!problems!based!on!student!feedback!to!be!covered!during!the!review!session.!!!!


The!problem!statements!were!sent!out!to!students!who!responded!to!the!RSVP,!and!only!30!copies!were!printed.!This! left!many!students!with!no!problems!to! look!at,!since!there! is!poor!reception!in!the! auditorium.! It! is! recommended! to! print! enough! copies! for! all! students!who!RSVP,! plus! a! little!extra!for!those!who!come!without!responding!to!the!RSVP!e1mail.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!A!lot!of!students!said!it!was!helpful!and!would!come!again.!We!were!able!to!hold!a!review!session!for!a!large!number!of!students!for!three!of!four!Physics!1A! professors.! A! good! number! of! students! came! to! the! TBP! tutoring! room! the! next! after! hearing!about!it!at!our!review!session.!

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5.8.16 Winter!Physics!1A!Review!Session!4!Project!Date:! 3/11/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Birch!1!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 40!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


We!held!an!one1hour! review!session! for!Physics!1A!students! from!819!p.m.!This!was! treated!as!an!office!hour! for!students! to!ask!any!questions! to!have!about! the!course!or! topics! to!be!covered!on!their!final.!We!prepared!two!practice!problems!to!be!gone!over!during!the!session.!!!!




Responsibilities! were! split! amongst! the! participating! members.! Each! member! wrote! a! problem!relating! to! the! current! topic! that! is! being! covered.! The! lead! was! responsible! for! meeting! with!professors!and!sending!RSVP!forms!inquiring!students!of!special!focus!areas.!!!


We!did!not!finish!one!of!the!problems!that!we!had!prepared!because!it!was!too!long!and!we!spent!several!minutes!looking!for!dry1erase!markers.!It!is!recommended!to!have!shorter!problems!for!the!one1hour! review! sessions,! or! have! the! final! review! session! run! for! more! than! one! hour.! Several!students! who! were! not! attending! the! review! session! were! also! there! to! study,! causing! several!students!to!sit!on!the!floor!or!without!tables!to!write!on.!It!seems!like!the!lounge!is!open!to!all!dorm!students,!even! if!we!reserve! it.!As!such,! it! is! recommended!to!find!another! location! if! this!were!to!happen!again.!!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!A!lot!of!students!said!it!was!helpful!and!would!come!again.!We!were!able!to!hold!a!review!session!for!a!large!number!of!students!for!three!of!four!Physics!1A!professors.!!

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5.8.17 Spring!Chemistry!30A!Review!Session!1!Project!Date:! 4/16/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Birch!1!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 25!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


The!purpose!of!this!event!was!to!prepare!students!for!their!Chem!30A!midterm!the!next!week.!First,!conceptual! information! was! covered! briefly,! then,! for! the! bulk! of! the! two! hour! review! session,!example!problems!were!presented!and!explained.!Students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!ask!specific!questions!throughout.!!!


This!session!helped!lower!division!students,!mostly!freshman,!in!Chem!30A,!a!class!required!for!many!engineering!students.!This!contributed!to!our!goal!of!enhancing!the!engineering!community!at!UCLA,!as!well!as!increasing!publicity!for!Tau!Beta!Pi!among!physical!science!and!engineering!students.!!




The!main!problem!with!this!review!session!was!that!it!was!so!far!in!advance!of!the!students’!midterm!that!not!as!many!attended!as!would!have!been!ideal,!due!to!a!lack!of!a!sense!of!urgency.!The!review!session!was!not!scheduled!for!the!following!week!as!the!professor!was!planning!a!review!session!for!that!week.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULT!

Overall,! the! session!was! very! successful,! and!although! some! students! left! early,! those!who! stayed!seemed!very!appreciative.!All!students!were!accommodated!in!the!room,!and!were!able!to!see!and!hear!the!presentation.!!Students!seemed!appreciative!at!the!end!of!the!review!session.!!!!!

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The! purpose! of! this! event! was! to! help! student! understand! an! important! section! of! Chem! 30A,!namely! that!dealing!with! substitution!and!elimination! reactions.! First,! conceptual! information!was!covered!briefly,!then,!for!the!bulk!of!the!two!hour!review!session,!example!problems!were!presented!and!explained.!Students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!ask!specific!questions!throughout.!!!






The!main!problem!with!this!review!session!was!that!it!was!so!far!in!advance!of!the!students’!midterm!that!not!as!many!attended!as!would!have!been!ideal,!due!to!a!lack!of!a!sense!of!urgency.!The!review!session!was!not!scheduled!for!the!following!week!as!the!professor!was!planning!a!review!session!for!that!week.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULT!

Overall,!the!session!was!very!successful,!and!although!some!students!left!early,!those!who!stayed!seemed!very!appreciative.!All!students!were!accommodated!in!the!room,!and!were!able!to!see!and!hear!the!presentation.!!Students!seemed!appreciative!at!the!end!of!the!review!session.!!

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5.8.19 Spring!Chemistry!30A!Review!Session!3!Project!Date:! 5/19/2015!Project!Area:! Hedrick!115!Classroom!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 32!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 4!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


The!purpose!of!this!event!was!to!prepare!students!for!their!Chem!30A!midterm!later!that!week.!For!the! entirety! of! the! review! session,! example! problems! were! presented! and! worked! through! by!helping!members.!Students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!ask!specific!questions!throughout.!!!






The!only!problems!encountered!in!this!review!session!were!related!to!the!room.!The!staff!at!Hedrick!Hall!was!unaware!that!we!had!the!room!reserved,!which!led!to!some!delays!in!getting!access!(luckily!we!arrived!early!enough!that!this!was!not!an! issue).!The!bigger!problem!was!space.!The!room!had!capacity! for! roughly! 20! students,! so! we! had! students! sitting! in! the! halls! just! outside! the! door.!Because!of!this! limitation,!not!every!student!was!able!to!make!their!way!to!the!sign! in!computers,!and!thus!not!every!student!who!attended!was!emailed!the!notes.!This!will!be!remedied!by!not!using!this!room!in!the!future.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULT!

Overall,!the!session!was!very!successful;!students!who!attended!were!appreciative!and!seemed!to!leave!with!a!better!understanding!of!the!material,!and!seemed!well!prepared!for!their!midterm.!Althrough!not!all!studnets!were!accommodated!in!the!room,!all!were!able!to!see!and!hear!the!presentation.!!Students!asked!questions,!which!were!answered!thoroughly.!!

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The!purpose!of!this!event!was!to!prepare!students!for!their!Chem!30A!final!at!the!end!of!the!week.!For! the!entirety!of! the! review! session,! example!problems!were!presented!and!worked! through!by!helping!members.!Students!also!had!the!opportunity!to!ask!specific!questions!throughout.!!!






This!review!session!went!smoothly,!with!the!biggest!problem!being!that!some!generic!students!using!the! room!at! the! time!of! the! review!session!had! to!be!displaced.!Also,!attendance!was!not!what! it!could! have! been! because! of! competition!with! the! professor’s! review! session,!which!was! held! the!following!day.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULT!

Overall,!the!session!was!very!successful;!students!who!attended!were!appreciative!and!seemed!to!leave!with!a!better!understanding!of!the!material,!and!seemed!well!prepared!for!their!final.!All!students!were!accommodated!in!the!room,!and!were!able!to!see!and!hear!the!presentation.!!Students!asked!questions!and!were!involved!in!the!process!of!working!through!example!problems.!!

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5.8.21 Spring!Physics!1B!Midterm!1!Review!Session!Project!Date:! 4/17/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 38!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 7.5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


We!held! a! three1hour! review! session! for! Physics! 1B! students! for! the! class’s! first!midterm.!We!did!practice!problems!and!reviewed!relevant!content!during!the!first!two!and!a!half!hours.!The!last!half1hour! was! used! to! answer! specific! questions! that! students! had,! as! in! an! office! hour.! The! review!session!ran!from!619!p.m.!!!


The!review!session!benefited!lower!division!students!in!Physics!1B,!following!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!objective!to! support! our! peers! and! enhance! the! engineering! community! at! UCLA.! This! event! also! exposed!underclassmen!to!Tau!Beta!Pi’s!name,!other!events,!and!the!tutoring!program.!!!


Responsibilities! were! split! amongst! the! participating! members! and! electees.! Four! of! the! five!participants!were! assigned! a! topic! relevant! to! the!midterm!and!wrote! 213! practice! problems!with!solutions,!along!with!a!brief!lecture!of!crucial!information!and!general!tricks!to!solve!problems!with.!The! lead! (the! Academic! Outreach! chair)! then! complied! all! the! problems! into! one! document! and!printed!more!than!enough!copies!for!everyone!who!RSVPed!to!the!session.!The!lead!was!responsible!for!meeting!with!professors!and!sending!RSVP! forms! inquiring!students!of!special! focus!areas.!The!lead! then!picked!5!problems!based!on! student! feedback! to!be! covered!during! the! review! session.!The!lead!was!also!responsible!for!creating!a!sign1in!form!for!the!students!and!sending!out!follow1up!e1mails!with!content!that!was!covered!during!the!session.!!


One! of! the! topics! that! one! person!was! responsible! for!was! not! covered! in! any! of! the! professor’s!midterms!(hydraulics).!It!is!recommended!to!get!a!clear!idea!of!what!and!what!is!not!on!the!midterm!before!assignment!of!topics!so!that!no!one’s!time!would!be!wasted.!Publicity!for!this!event!and!turn1out!to!those!who!had!RSVPed!could!have!been!better.!There!were!only!65!people!who!had!RSVPed!amongst!the!three!professors,!whereas!there!were!over!150!RSVPs!last!quarter!for!Physics!1A.! It! is!recommended!that!the!Academic!Outreach!chair!reach!out!to!the!students/classes!in!person!instead!of! via! e1mail! to! professors.! There! was! also! overprinting! of! the! problem! statements,! so! it! is!recommended!to!print!the!exact!number!that!RSVPed.!!!!!

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V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!A!lot!of!students!said!it!was!helpful!and!would!come!again.!A!good!number!of!students!came!to!the!TBP!tutoring!room!the!next!after!hearing!about!it!at!our!review!session.!!!

5.8.22 Spring!Physics!1B!Review!Session!2!Project!Date:! 5/7/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Birch!1!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 10!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 4!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


We!held!an!one1hour! review!session! for!Physics!1B!students! from!819!p.m.!This!was! treated!as!an!office!hour!for!students!to!ask!any!questions!they!have!on!the!topics!that!have!been!covered!during!the! first! 4! weeks! or! for! any! homework! help.! However,! we! did! prepare! some! practice! problems!because!of!student!requests!in!the!RSVP!form.!!!!




Responsibilities! were! split! amongst! the! participating! members.! Each! member! wrote! a! problem!and/or! lecture! relating! to! the! current! topic! that! is! being! covered.! The! lead! was! responsible! for!meeting!with!professors!and!sending!RSVP!forms!inquiring!students!of!special!focus!areas.!The!lead!was!also!responsible!for!creating!a!sign1in!form!for!the!students!and!sending!out!follow1up!e1mails!with!content!that!was!covered!during!the!session.!


There!were!other!people!at!the!De!Neve!Birch!Lounge!who!were!not!affiliated!with!Tau!Beta!Pi!or!the!review! session,! even! though! the! room!was! reserved.! It! is! recommended! to!be! firm!and! tell! these!people! to! leave! so! that! there! would! be! no! disturbances! during! the! session.! There! was! also! not!enough!seats!for!actual!attendees!because!of!the!large!number!of!unrelated!students!there.!!!

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V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!A!lot!of!students!said!it!was!helpful!and!would!come!again.!!A!good!number!of!students!came!to!the!TBP!tutoring!room!the!next!after!hearing!about!it!at!our!review!session.!

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5.8.23 Spring!Physics!1B!Midterm!2!Review!Session!Project!Date:! 5/13/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 27!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 7!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


We!held!a!two1hour!review!session!for!Physics!1B!students!for!the!class’s!second!midterm.!We!did!practice!problems!and!presented!some!lecture!materials!during!the!first!hour!and!a!half.!The!last!half!an!hour!was!used! to!answer!specific!questions! that! students!had,!as! in!an!office!hour.!The! review!session!ran!from!618!p.m.!!!




Responsibilities! were! split! amongst! the! participating! members! and! electees.! Four! of! the! five!participants!were! assigned! a! topic! relevant! to! the!midterm!and!wrote! 213! practice! problems!with!solutions,!along!with!a!brief!lecture!of!crucial!information!and!general!tricks!to!solve!problems!with.!The! lead! (the! Academic! Outreach! chair)! then! complied! all! the! problems! into! one! document! and!printed!more!than!enough!copies!for!everyone!who!RSVPed!to!the!session.!The!lead!was!responsible!for!meeting!with!professors!and!sending!RSVP! forms! inquiring!students!of!special! focus!areas.!The!lead! then!picked!5!problems!based!on! student! feedback! to!be! covered!during! the! review! session.!The!lead!was!also!responsible!for!creating!a!sign1in!form!for!the!students!and!sending!out!follow1up!e1mails!with!content!that!was!covered!during!the!session.!!


A! feedback! form!was!printed!out!given!out! to!each!of! the!attendees.!However,!only! seven!people!actually! returned! the! form.! It! is! recommended! to! work! on! how! to! increase! attendees’! feedback!

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returns.!Publicity!could!have!also!been!better,!since!there!was!a!significant!decrease!in!the!number!of!attendees!from!the!last!midterm!review!session.!In!addition,!only!two!of!the!three!hours!booked!was! used.! One! electee! could! not! show! up! to! the! session! because! her! class! ended! at! 8,! and! the!session!ended!before!then.!The!time!could!have!been!better!utilized,!and!it! is!recommended!to!do!more!practice!problems!and!lecture!materials!during!the!session.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!A!lot!of!students!said!it!was!helpful!and!would!come!again.!A!good!number!of!students!came!to!the!TBP!tutoring!room!the!next!after!hearing!about!it!at!our!review!session.!

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5.8.24 Spring!Physics!1B!Final!Review!Session!Project!Date:! 6/4/2015!Project!Area:! De!Neve!Auditorium!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 24!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 6!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! Office!of!Residential!Life!


We!held!a! two1hour! review!session! to!prepare! students! for! their!Physics!1B! final.!We!did!practice!problems!and!lectured!on!topics!after!the!second!midterm.!The!last!half!an!hour!was!used!to!answer!specific!questions!that!students!had,!as!in!an!office!hour.!The!review!session!ran!from!618!p.m.!!!!




Responsibilities! were! split! amongst! the! participating! members! and! electees.! Four! of! the! five!participants!were! assigned! a! topic! relevant! to! the!midterm!and!wrote! 213! practice! problems!with!solutions,!along!with!a!brief!lecture!of!crucial!information!and!general!tricks!to!solve!problems!with.!The! lead! (the! Academic! Outreach! chair)! then! complied! all! the! problems! into! one! document! and!printed!more!than!enough!copies!for!everyone!who!RSVPed!to!the!session.!The!lead!was!responsible!for!meeting!with!professors!and!sending!RSVP! forms! inquiring!students!of!special! focus!areas.!The!lead! then!picked!5!problems!based!on! student! feedback! to!be! covered!during! the! review! session.!The!lead!was!also!responsible!for!creating!a!sign1in!form!for!the!students!and!sending!out!follow1up!e1mails!with!content!that!was!covered!during!the!session.!

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A!feedback!form!sent!to!all!attendees!after!the!session!in!the!follow1up!e1mail.!However,!only!four!people!actually!responded!to!the!form.! It!seems! like!response!was!better!when!the!feedback!form!was!given!out! in!person.!However,! it! is! still! recommended! to!work!on!how! to! increase!attendees’!feedback!returns.!Publicity!could!have!also!been!better,!since!there!was!a!decrease!in!the!number!of!attendees! from!the! last! review!session.! In!addition,!only! two!of! the!three!hours!booked!was!used.!The!time!could!have!been!better!utilized,!and!it!is!recommended!to!do!a!quick!run1through/review!of!all!important!topics!and!ideas!to!be!covered!in!the!Physics!1B!final!after!finishing!the!new!content.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!review!session!was!very!successful.!A!lot!of!students!said!it!was!helpful!and!would!come!again.!!A!good!number!of!students!came!to!the!TBP!tutoring!room!the!next!after!hearing!about!it!at!our!review!session.!

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5.9 !Tutoring!!

5.9.1 Tutoring!Project!Date:! 10/20/2014!to!5/29/2015!Project!Area:! UCLA!Boelter!Hall!6266!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 19!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 98!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 3!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 14!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! HKN,!UPE!


This!year,! tutoring!was!completed! in!the! largely!the!same!way! it!was!completed! in!previous!years.!The! only! difference! was! that! candidates! could! choose! to! pursue! another! track! besides! tutoring.!Candidates!that!did!choose!tutoring!completed!2!hours!per!week,!from!3rd!week!to!9th!week.!!!


Tutoring!gives!undergraduates!another!resource!to!help!them!in!their!classes,!promoting!excellence!in!science!and!engineering.!In!addition,!it!raises!UCLA’s!awareness!of!TBP!and!gives!our!organization!a!good!reputation.!!


No! Costs.! Tutoring! chairs! had! to! organize! the! tutoring! program.! Tutors! had! to! commit! 2! hours! a!week!to!tutor.!!


No!major!problems!occurred.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Tutoring! was! smooth! overall.! Some! hiccups! in! the! tutoring! hours! recording! system! were! noted!throughout!the!quarter.!

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5.9.2 Winter!Tutoring!Room!Social!Project!Date:! 1/14/2015!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 5!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 0.25!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


This!event!was!an!open!house!designed!to!familiarize!potential!tutees!with!the!location!and!layout!of!the!tutoring!room.!!We!bought!cookies!to!incentivize!attendees.!


By!promoting!the!familiarity!and!communication!with!potential!tutees,!we!facilitate!communication!among! engineers! and! other! students.! This! is! a! step! towards! encouraging! the! development! of!excellence!and!integrity!in!engineering.!!


1.!$9.00!–!The!cost!of!3!dozen!cookies!(two!day1old!dozens!an!1!regular!dozen)!at!Diddy!Reese.!!2.!The!dignity!of!the!tutoring!chairs.!!


No!one!showed!up!except!for!officers.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Although! this! event! was! based! on! a! successful! previously! held! event,! this! time! the! event! was! a!failure.!!More!publicity!will!be!needed!for!following!events.!

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6.1 !Fall!Engineering!Minds!Cultivating!Creativity!(EMCC)!Project!Date:! 12/5/2014!Project!Area:! EMCC!!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 24!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We! taught!weekly! 1! hour! science! lessons! to! 5th! grade! children! at! Nora! Sterry! Elementary! School.!Each!Friday!between!3rd!and!9th!weeks!we!taught!a!short!science!topic!and!did!a!demonstration!or!experiment! to!go!along!with! it.!We!had!10!children!come!to!each!week!and!had!between!3!and!7!candidates!come!along!to!help!teach!and!make!sure!the!children!were!paying!attention.!!!!!


EMCC!helps!to!promote!learning!and!interest!in!science!topics!for!children.!!!


We!spent!about!$70!dollars!on!supplies!for!all!the!modules!this!quarter,!and!we!got!a!MindSET!grant!to!cover!this!cost.!We!also!needed!one!or!two!drivers!each!week!to!bring!all!the!volunteers!over!to!the!elementary!school.!!!


There!were!no!problems.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall! this! program!was! successful! this! quarter.! The! children! responded!positively! to! the! various!experiments;!they!were!curious!and!intrigued!by!the!topics.!!

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6.2 !Fall!Blood!Drive!Project!Date:! 11/4/2014!Project!Area:! UCLA!Ackerman!Union!Blood!and!Platelet!Center!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 0!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!Blood!and!Platelet!Center!


The!UCLA!Blood!and!Platelet!Center!hosts!quarterly!blood!drives!with! student! clubs! in!which! club!members!sign!up!to!donate!blood!on!a!given!day.!All!blood!collected!at!the!UCLA!Blood!and!Platelet!Center!benefits!patients!at!the!UCLA!hospital.!!!


The!California! Epsilon! chapter!of! TBP! strives! to!promote! the! growth!of! its!members,! academically!and! professionally,! and! also! encourages!members! to! give! back! to! the! community! through! service!opportunities! on! campus! and! in! the! surrounding! LA! area.!Members! participate! in! numerous! local!community!service!projects!throughout!the!year.!!


Since!the!event!was!coordinated!through!the!UCLA!Blood!and!Platelet!Center,!TBP!did!not!incur!any!costs! and! only! needed! to! encourage! member! participation.! Due! to! FDA! rules,! participation! was!limited!to!members!who!satisfied!certain!health!regulations.!!


N/A!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Though!there!were!only!three!donors,!the!event!was!still!considered!a!success!because!we!were!able!to!save!nine!lives.!However,!previous!blood!drives!had!a! lot!more!participants,!so!we!would!like!to!increase!the!turnout!in!future!TBP!blood!drives.!!

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6.3 !Wheelchair!Basketball!Project!Date:! 11/4&12/2!Project!Area:! Community!Service!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 8!candidates!for!both!dates!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Every!week!at!the!UCLA!Wooden!Center,!amputees!from!the!Los!Angeles!area!come!to!participate!in!wheelchair!basketball.!Most!of!the!time,!they!do!not!have!enough!people!to!play!a!full!5!on!5!game!with!breaks!so!many!of!us!come!and!strap!ourselves!in!wheelchairs!and!participate!in!order!to!make!sure!the!amputees!still!get!the!competition!associated!with!traditional!basketball.!!



III. !COST!AND!PERSONAL!REQUIREMENTS!

There!were!no!cost!or!personal!requirements!for!this!activity.!!

IV. !SPECIAL!PROBLEMS!

N/A!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!overall!results!were!successful!as!usual.!The!candidates!had!a!great!time!and!one!of!the!candidates!is!now!the!new!community!service!chair!and!specifically!liked!this!program.!Candidates!also!enjoyed!conversing!with!some!of!the!amputees!while!waiting!on!the!sideline!for!some!games.! !

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6.4 !Seismic!Outreach!Volunteer!Opportunity!Project!Date:! 12/5/2014!Project!Area:! UCLA!Student!Activities!Center!Gym!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 8!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 0!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! UCLA!American!Society!of!Civil!Engineers!(ASCE)!


UCLA!ASCE! hosts! Seismic!Outreach,! a! program! focused! on! encouraging!middle! school! students! to!pursue!a!career! in!math!and!science.!The!program!brings!structural!and!seismic!engineering! to!6th!grade! classrooms! through! on1site! presentations! and! a! hands1on! building! project! throughout! the!quarter.!After!weeks!of!working!on!their!projects,!students!visit!UCLA!for!the!quarterly!finale!to!test!their!KNEX!structures!as!well!as!tour!the!campus!and!interact!with!faculty!and!industry!professionals.!TBP!members!helped!with!giving!campus!tours!and!judging!structures.!!




Since! the! event! was! organized! and! hosted! by! UCLA! ASCE,! TBP! did! not! incur! any! costs! and! only!recruited!volunteers!through!the!weekly!newsletter.!!


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V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

With! over! 200! students! from! Paul! Revere! Middle! School! in! attendance,! the! event! was! very!successful.!The!middle!school!students!enjoyed!visiting!UCLA,!interacting!with!engineering!students,!and!testing!the!strengths!of!their!KNEX!structures!on!an!actual!shake!table.!

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6.5 !Winter!Engineering!Minds!Cultivating!Creativity!(EMCC)!Project!Date:! 1/22/2015!Project!Area:! EMCC!!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 3!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We! taught!weekly! 1! hour! science! lessons! to! 5th! grade! children! at! Nora! Sterry! Elementary! School.!Each!Friday!between!3rd!and!9th!weeks!we!taught!a!short!science!topic!and!did!a!demonstration!or!experiment!to!go!along!with! it.!We!had!10!children!come!to!each!week!and!had!one!distinguished!active!come!along!to!help!teach!and!make!sure!the!children!were!paying!attention.!!!!!




We!spent!about!$80!dollars!on!supplies!for!all!the!modules!this!quarter,!and!we!got!a!MindSET!grant!to! cover! this! cost.!We! also! needed! one! driver! each! week! to! bring! all! the! volunteers! over! to! the!elementary!school.!!!


The!kids!started! to!grow!more!disruptive! then! they!had!been! in! the!past,!and!we!needed!to! learn!how!to!adequately!discipline!them!so!we!could!continue!lessons!effectively.!We!found!that!sending!the!louder!kids!back!to!their!other!programs!worked!pretty!well.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall! this! program!was! successful! this! quarter.! The! children! responded!positively! to! the! various!experiments;!they!were!curious!and!intrigued!by!the!topics.!!

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6.6 !Spring!Engineering!Minds!Cultivating!Creativity!(EMCC)!Project!Date:! 4/16/2015!Project!Area:! EMCC!!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 6!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We! taught!weekly! 1! hour! science! lessons! to! 5th! grade! children! at! Nora! Sterry! Elementary! School.!Each!Friday!between!3rd!and!9th!weeks!we!taught!a!short!science!topic!and!did!a!demonstration!or!experiment! to! go! along!with! it.!We! had! 10! children! come! to! each!week! and! had! 2! distinguished!actives! as!well! as! 1! candidate! come! along! to! help! teach! and!make! sure! the! children!were! paying!attention.!!!!!




We! spent! about! $20! dollars! on! supplies! for! all! the! modules! this! quarter,! and! we! applied! for! a!MindSET!grant!to!cover!this!cost.!We!also!needed!one!driver!each!week!to!bring!all!the!volunteers!over!to!the!elementary!school.!!!


There!were!no!problems.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall!this!program!was!successful!this!quarter.!The!children!responded!positively!to!the!various!experiments;!they!were!curious!and!intrigued!by!the!topics.!!!!!!!!!

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6.7 !Spring!Blood!Drive!Project!Date:! 5/27/2015!Project!Area:! UCLA!Blood!&!Platelet!Center!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 1!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 15!mins!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The!Blood!Drive!was!one!of! the! community! service!options! for! the! Spring!2015!quarter.! Potential!new!members!were!encouraged!to!go!to!the!Blood!&!Platelet!Center!to!donate!blood.!!!!


The!motto!of!Tau!Beta!Pi!is!Integrity!and!Excellence!in!Engineering.!Part!of!this!entails!being!active!in!the!community!through!service!events.!!!


The!event!is!free!of!cost!to!set!up!and!run.!The!only!requirement!is!that!the!candidate!be!healthy.!!!


It!seems!that!not!a!lot!of!people!like!donating!blood.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,! the! blood! drive! had! a! very! poor! showing.! Only! one! candidate! decided! to! go! out! of!approximately! 30.! Perhaps! in! the! future,! other! kinds! of! community! service! events! will! be! done!instead.!!

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6.8 !Exploring!Engineering!Project!Date:! 5/20/2015!Project!Area:! Exploring!Engineering!!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 11!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 10!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We!hosted!23!high!school!students!from!Rancho!Verde!High!School!here!at!UCLA.!We!taught!three!science!lessons!which!each!had!a!corresponding!hands1on!experiment.!The!lessons!we!taught!were!on!density,! current/electromagnitism,!and! finally! the!physics!behind!bridge!building.! !We!also!had!time!for!a!short!Question/Answer!period!with!current!UCLA!students!so!the!high!schoolers!could!get!an!idea!of!what!it!is!like!to!be!in!college!and!also!to!major!in!Engineering.!!!


Exploring! Engineering! helps! to! promote! learning! and! interest! in! science! topics! for! juniors! in! high!school!that!are!thinking!about!college!and!what!they!want!to!major!in.!!!


We!spent!about!$100!dollars!on!supplies!for!all!the!modules!taught!during!this!event,!and!we!applied!for!a!MindSET!grant!to!cover!this!cost.!!!


One!of!the!vans!that!was!brining!the!children!over!from!the!school!was!late!so!we!had!to!start!a!half!hour!later!than!planned.!This!meant!that!we!needed!to!shorten!some!of!the!modules,!but!we!were!able!to!still!get!everything!done!that!we!wanted!to.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall! this! program!was! successful! this! quarter.! The! children! responded!positively! to! the! various!experiments;!they!were!curious!and!intrigued!by!the!topics!and!responded!well!to!the!student!panel.!!

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6.9 !Eye!on!Engineering!!Project!Date:! 5/28/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse,!ASCE!Lounge,!ASME!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! ~20!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 19!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5110!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! ~2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! IEEE,!ASCE,!ASME!


For!the!last!few!years,!Tau!Beta!Pi!has!made!EYE!on!Engineering!an!annual!event!with!huge!success.!EYE!on!Engineering! is! an!outreach!event! for! elementary! to!middle! school! kids! to! spark! interest! in!engineering.! Around! 30! kids! are! brought! in! from! schools! around! UCLA,! and! certain! engineering!groups!on!campus!show!them!the!new!and!exciting!projects!they!are!currently!working!on.!!!


Part! of! the! purposes! of! Tau! Beta! Pi! is! to! champion! ongoing! education,! to! seek! to! make! the!engineering! profession! exciting! and! cool,! promote! unbiased! education! to! the! public! on! relevant!engineering!issues.!EYE!on!Engineering!embodies!all!of!these!objectives,!as!we!attempt!to!share!our!passion!and!love!for!engineering!with!the!next!generation!of!engineers.!!!


The! cost! of! the! entire! event! is! mainly! for! food.! Pizza’s! from! Domino’s! is! usually! bought! to! feed!around! 60! people! (kids,! parents,! and! also! volunteers).! The! community! service! chair(s)! should! be!present! for! the!entirety!of! the!event.! Past!officers!with!experience! should!also!be!at! the!event! to!help!make!sure!the!event!runs!smoothly.!A!decent!amount!of!volunteers!should!also!be!at!the!event!to!help!with!sign1in,!sign1out,!and!shuffling!of!kids!and!parents!to!their!destinations.!!!


Approximately!half!of!the!students!and!parents!that!signed!up!did!not!show!up.!This!may!be!because!they! forgot! that! the! day! of! the! event.! Although! a! reminder! email! was! sent! out! a! couple! of! days!before!the!event,!perhaps!more!reminders!can!be!utilized!next!year.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!a!huge!success.!After!coming!to!attend,!many!parents!expressed!that!they!and!their!kids!were!very!inspired.!Because!more!kids!were!expected!to!attend,!a!little!extra!food!was!ordered,!but!this!turned!out!to!be!an!advantage!because!the!presenters!from!IEEE,!ASCE,!and!ASME!could!be!fed!as!well.!All!in!all,!it!was!a!really!fun!day,!the!kids!seemed!to!enjoy!the!presentations,!and!EYE!on!Engineering!should!definitely!be!ready!for!next!year.!!

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7.1 !Fall!Officer!Retreat!Project!Date:! 10/11/2014!Project!Area:! Six!Flags!Magic!Mountain,!Valencia,!CA!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 11!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 4!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 24!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


The!TBP!Officer!Fall!Retreat!gives! the!newly1elected!TBP!officer!members!a!chance!to!get! to!know!each!other!in!the!form!of!a!weekend!retreat.!This!quarter,!we!decided!to!take!out!anyone!who!was!interested! to!Magic! Mountain! in! Valencia! CA.! To! allow! for! additional! kickback/bonding! time,! we!booked!a!couple!rooms! in!a!hotel!and!chilled!there!the!night!before.! !The!day! itself!consisted!of!a!wholesome! combination!of! line1waiting! and! intense! rollercoaster! thrills.! Some! folks! left! and!9!PM!while!other!stayed!there!till!1!AM!or!so.!


It’s!hard!to!run!an!academic!honor!society!alongside!with!people!you!may!not!know!all1too!well,!so!this! retreat!provides!members! the!perfect!opportunity! to!break! the! ice!and! form!bonds!with!each!other,!as!well!as!helping!strengthen!existing!ones!among!previous!officers.!!


Each!ticket!to!Magic!Mountain!cost!$44,!which!each!officer!paid!for! individually.!TBP!itself!covered!for! the!hotel!expenses.!The!cost!of! two!21bedroom!rooms!weighed! in!at!about!$300! for!one!night!after!taxes.!The!4!hours!which!went! into!planning!this!event!went! into!figuring!out!what!would!be!the!best!day!to!hold!the!retreat,!who!was!able!to!drive!officers!up,!buying!tickets,!and!booking!the!correct!number!of!hotel! rooms! (which! required! coordinating!and!waiting!on!all! officers!who!were!interested).!


Miraculously! enough,! nothing! derailed! our! retreat! plans.! We! had! more! than! enough! drivers! to!accommodate!everyone!who!was! interested,! and!while!we!weren’t! able! to! find!a! single!date! that!would!work!out!well!for!everyone,!the!retreat!had!a!solid!turnout.!We!even!managed!to!rendezvous!with!our!favorite!advisor,!Bill,!who!didn’t!tell!us!until!the!last!minute!that!he!was!going!to!meet!us!there.! We! were! also! able! to! organize! around! the! fact! that! people! didn’t! want! to! stay! at! Magic!Mountain!for!over!12!hours!by!allocating!return!rides!appropriately.!

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The! TBP!Officer! Fall! Retreat!was! a! roaring! success.!All! the!officers! got! to! know!each!other! a! little!better! as! a! result! of! this! fun,! rollercoaster1fueled! excursion.! Virtually! no! complications! were!encountered!besides!the!absurdly!long!waits!for!some!rides!that!we!didn’t!feel!like!putting!up!with.!On!top!of!that,!all!expenses!have!been!soundly!accounted!for.!

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7.2 !Fall!BBQ!&!Catapults!Competition!Project!Date:! 11/8/2014!Project!Area:! Sunset!Recreation!Upper!Lawn!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 9!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 19!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 4!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 4!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The!Fall!BBQ!offers!a!chance!for!Tau!Beta!Pi!candidates,!members,!and!officers!to!socialize!and!get!to!know!one!another!over!food!and!games.!Burgers!and!hot!dogs!were!grilled!over!a!charcoal!fire!with!a!variety!of!toppings,!along!with!vegetarian!options.!Attendees!elected!to!play!cards!or!catch!while!the! food! cooked.! The! BBQ! is! hosted! in! conjunction! with! the! 2nd! rendition! of! the! Catapults!competition.! Enough!materials! and! tools! for! 4! catapults! are! laid!out!on! tarps! and!participants! are!given!2!hours! to!design!and!construct!a!small!wooden!catapult!powered!by!elastic! surgical! tubing.!Saws,!nails,!hammers,!other!misc.!supplies!were!provided!for!construction.!Bean!bags!are!provided!to! toss! and! the!winner! is! judged!based!on! the!distance! thrown.!House!points! are! awarded! to! the!winner(s)!as!a!part!of!the!House!competition.!!!!


The!BBQ!is!held!every!initiation!quarter!(Fall,!Spring)!primarily!to!give!candidates!a!chance!to!meet!and!socialize!with!each!other!and!the!officers!of!Tau!Beta!Pi.!Members!and!alumni!are!also!welcome!to! attend,! however,! they! do! not! show! in! such! strong! numbers.! The! catapults! competition! gives!members,! candidates,! and! officers! hands! on! engineering! and! team! experience! in! a! fun,! yet!competitive! environment! with! a! low! time! commitment.! It! allows! our! chapter! of! Tau! Beta! Pi! to!strengthen!its!bonds!with!its!members,!candidates,!and!officers.!!!


The!BBQ!and!Catapults! is!primarily!organized!by! the!project!and! social! chair(s).!Approximately!213!hours! were! spent! for! each! of! the! officers! planning! the! event! to! purchase! and! organize! food! and!materials.!Costs!included!approximately!$120!in!food!(hamburgers,!hot!dogs,!toppings,!chips,!water,!charcoal),!$30!in!expendable!building!materials!(wood,!elastic!tubing,!nails)!and!was!covered!by!Tau!Beta!Pi.!!


No!particularly!special!problems!were!encountered!in!planning!and!hosting!the!BBQ!and!Catapults.!Experience! from! previously! hosting! the! event! carried! over! and! overall,! the! event!went! smoothly.!Attendance!was!slightly!low!compared!to!previous!quarters,!but!that!may!be!attributed!to!a!Korean!BBQ! social! event! having! been! hosted! the! night! before.! Care!will! be! taken! in! the! future! to! better!schedule!social!type!events!accordingly.!

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Everyone!who!attended!the!BBQ!and!Catapults!appeared!to!enjoy!the!event.!Because!of!the!lower!attendance,! it!was!decided!to!combine!House!teams!and!build!only!two!catapults!with!Beta!house!forming!!one!team!and!Tau,!Pi,!Epsilon!houses!forming!the!second!team.!The!winner!was!Tau,!Pi,!and!Epsilon’s!combined!effort!which!bested!Beta’s!catapult!by!a!couple!feet.!The!catapults!were!disposed!of!properly!and!recycled.!Attendees!were!able!to!enjoy!the!food!all!the!while.!!

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7.3 !Fall!Signature!Party!Project!Date:! 11/15/2014!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 25!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 60!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


Candidates! were! invited! to! the! Boelter! Penthouse! to! participate! in! the! Signature! Party,! where!candidates! had! the! chance! to! obtain! signatures! from! officers,! other! candidates,! members,! and!faculty! for! the! signature! project.! ! Candidates! went! from! booth! to! booth! where! they! received!signatures! upon! successful! completion! of! a! mini1game! such! (spin! around! and! then! solve! a! math!problem,!blindfolded!drawing,!eat!6!saltine!crackers!in!under!a!minutes,!etc).!!!


Although! this! event! was! one! of! the! few! non1mandatory! initiation! events,! it! was! meant! to! help!candidates!obtain!the!signatures!they!needed!for!the!mandatory!signature!project.!!They!were!able!to! do! so! in! a! fun! and! light1hearted!manner,! while!meeting!many! of! the! officers! and! their! fellow!candidates.!!!


The!cost!of!a!few!supplies!such!as!packs!saltine!crackers!or!napkins!was!about!$15.!!


Unfortunately,!not!all!candidates!were!able!to!attend.!!Almost!all!of!the!candidates!who!did!show!up!were!able!to!obtain!all!the!signatures!they!needed,!besides!for!the!candidates!who!showed!up!near!the!end!of!the!event.!!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Although!the!event!was!not!mandatory,!there!was!a!good!turn!out.!Candidates!and!officers!had!fun!with!the!different!mini1games.!Almost!all!of!the!candidates!got!all!the!signatures!they!needed.!

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7.4 !TBP!IEEE!Potluck!Project!Date:! 12/6/2014!Project!Area:! Boelter!Student!Creativity!Center!(SCC)!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 6!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 0!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! IEEE!


The! Club! Liaison! for! IEEE! planned! an! officer! social! between! TBP! and! IEEE! in! order! to! develop!relations!between!TBP!and! IEEE.!The!event!consisted!of!a!potluck! in! the!SCC!area!next! to! the! IEEE!lab.!The!location!was!chosen!so!that!TBP!officers!could!tour!the!IEEE!lab.!!!


The! intent!was! to! give! TBP! officers! a! chance! to! see!what! IEEE! does! as! a! projects1based! electrical!engineering! student! group.! Excellence! in! engineering! requires! hands1on! projects! in! addition! to!academic!and! theoretical!work.!TBP!officers! should!encourage! their!mentees! to! join!project1based!student!groups!to!increase!their!practical!knowledge.!!!


Each!participant!brought!his/her!own!food!to!contribute!to!the!potluck.!!


There!were!no!major!problems.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The! essential! officers! of! TBP,! including! the! President,! Vice! President,! Secretary,! and! Project! Chair!attended.!The!essential!officers!of! IEEE,! including! the!President,!major!projects!officers,! and!other!executive! board!members! also! attended.! Both! groups! networked! and! gained! an! understanding! of!each!other’s!purpose.!!

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7.5 !Fall!2014!Game!Night!Project!Date:! 12/5/2014!Project!Area:! Boelter!6266!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 16!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The!TBP!Game!Night!social!was!designed!as!a!last1minute!social!for!TBP!candidates!who!put!of!their!social!event!requirements!until!the!last!minute.!The!premise!was!fairly!straightforward:!get!a!bunch!of!candidates!to!get!to!know!each!other!a!little!better!via!the!medium!of!games,!which!ranged!from!card!games!to!video!games.!!


In!this!chapter!we!require!all!candidates!to!attend!at!least!2!social!events!so!that!the!candidates!get!a!chance!to!get!to!know!each!other.!No!sense!in!having!an!“honors!society”!if!there’s!no!socializing!in!said!society.!The!social!is!also!a!great!opportunity!for!candidates!to!grow!as!a!person!via!partaking!in!new!activities.!!


In!preparation! for! this!event,! I!prepared!a!number!of!games! for!candidates! to!play! in! the! tutoring!room.!The!office!already!had!a!few!decks!of!cards!in!the!back,!so!I!brought!those!out!for!a!start.!From!my! apartment! I! brought! over! an! 201in! LCD! TV! and!my!Wii!U! so! that! candidates! could! play! either!Super!Smash!Bros!for!Wii!U!or!Mario!Kart!8,!both!of!which!were!a!great!hit!with!the!candidates.!I!also!brought!over!this!novel!card!game!called!“Dixit”.!The!rules!are!too!complicated!to!elaborate!on!over!here,!but!the!candidates!had!an!easy!time!picking!it!up!and!had!a!lot!of!fun!with!it!as!well.!!


No!particularly!unexpected!complications!came!up!in!preparing!for!this!event.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!a!much!larger!success!that!I!had!expected!it!to!be,!given!that!it!was!on!campus!on!the!Friday!night!of!9th!week.!Not!only!did!it!have!a!decent!turnout,!but!some!candidates!even!brought!in!their!own!games!to!play!with!others!!I’d!definitely!be!more!than!happy!to!hold!this!event!again.!!

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7.6 !Fall!2014!Officer!Bowling!Social!Project!Date:! 12/7/2014!Project!Area:! El!Dorado!Lanes,!Marina!Del!Ray!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 7!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 3!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


In! order! to! help! strengthen! ties! between! existing! and! newer! members! of! the! officer! board,! we!decided! to! old! an! officer! social! towards! the! end! of! the! quarter.! The! bond! activity! in! question:!bowling.!!!


What!good! is!an!honor’s! society! if! the!society! isn’t!very!social?! In!an!attempt! to!avoid!making! the!club! from!becoming! “cliquier”,!we! extended! a! hand!out! to! newer!officers! and! invited! them! to! go!bowling!with!us.!!


Admission!into!the!bowling!alley!for!a!21hour!session!for!a!pair!of!lanes!came!out!to!about!$20!per!person!(prices!varied!between!different!days!and!times!throughout!the!week.)!Transport!to!the!AMF!El!Dorado!Lanes!in!!Marina!Del!Ray!required!2!volunteer!drivers.!!


So!here’s!where!stuff!got!pretty!hair.!The!AMF!bowling!website!wasn’t!up1to1date!with!the!pricing!schemes! between! different! bowling! alleys.! For! instance,! the! AMF! bowling! lanes! in! Santa!Monica!charges!per!lane!instead!of!per!person.!HOWEVER,!this!was!not!properly!illustrated!on!the!website!for!that!bowling!location.!It!wasn’t!until!the!day!before!the!event!that!I!realized!this!disconnect!when!I!went!ahead!and!reserved!the!lanes!(note!to!self:!don’t!ever!do!that!again!@_@).!Long!story!short:!don’t!trust!the!internet.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Despite!the!last1minute!mishap,!the!event!was!a!success!once!we!got!the!place.!Everyone!had!a!good!time!and!newer!officer!became!better!assimilated!into!the!whole!of!the!officer!board.!!!!!!!

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7.7 !Fall!House!Socials!

7.7.1 Pi!House!Social!–!Pizza!Pi!with!Pi!House!Project!Date:! 10/24/2014!Project!Area:! Westwood!Village,!Los!Angeles,!CA!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 10!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 8!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


This!event!was!a!social!dinner!night!for!the!Pi!house!members!to!get!to!know!their!peers!and!interact!amongst!themselves.!The!event!location!was!800!Degrees,!a!local!pizzeria!in!Westwood.!


By! promoting! the! socialization! among! the! new! candidates! of! Tau! Beta! Pi,! the! Pi! House! Leaders!facilitated!communication!among!engineers.!This!is!a!step!towards!encouraging!the!development!of!excellence!and!integrity!in!engineering.!!


Cost! of! food! was! incurred! individually,! so! there! was! no! external! cost! during! this! event.! People!interested!in!this!event!meet!at!the!Bruin!Bear!and!walked!to!800!Degrees!as!a!group.!


There!was!not!much!difficulty/problem!in!organizing!this!event;!however,!a!considerable!amount!of!time!was!wasted!at!the!meeting!spot!due!to!communication!errors.!


The! event! was! a! success,! a! good! experience! for! a! lot! of! new! members! to! interact! amongst!themselves!and!with!the!Pi!House!leaders.!

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7.7.2 Beta!House!Social!–!Five!Guys!Project!Date:! 10/28/2014!Project!Area:! Five!Guys,!Westwood!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 7!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 10!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The! social! event! was! pretty! straightforward.! Our! chapter! divides! our! candidates! into! 4! separate!houses,!Hogwarts1style!(Tau,!Beta,!Pi,!and!Epsilon),!and!the!leaders!of!each!house!are!responsible!for!holding! a! couple! socials! for! candidate! members! of! their! house! to! attend! (members! from! other!houses!are!also! invited!to!attend.)!This!social!was!Beta!house’s! first!social!of! the!quarter:!a!simple!excursion! to! Five!Guys,! a! pseudo1gourmet! burger! joint! located! across! from! the!parking! garage!on!Broxton!in!our!lovely!own!Westwood!Village.!!


In!our!lovely!Epsilon!chapter,!we!require!all!of!our!candidates!to!attend!at!least!2!social!events!during!their!initiation!quarter.!Doing!so!let’s!the!honors!society!feel!more!like!an!actually!society!rather!than!just!a!bunch!of!folks!patting!each!other!on!the!back!for!their!good!grades!and!whatnot.!!


Setting!this!event!up!was!pretty!straightforward.!No!calls!or!reservations!had!to!be!made,!and!since!the! restaurant! was! in! Westwood,! we! just! had! everybody! walk! there! together! as! a! group.! Each!member/candidate!paid! for! their!own!meal!and!were! free!to!stay!and! leave!the!restaurant! is! they!wished.!!


Nothing! weird! or! unexpected! occurred! during! the! planning! of! the! social,! nor! during! or! after! the!social!event.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!Beta!House! Five!Guys! Fall! 2014!was! a! solid! success.! I!was! pleasantly! surprised! by! the! decent!turnout!that!the!event!had!achieved,!as!many!candidates!like!to!put!their!social!event!requirements!off!until!the!last!minute.!!!!!!

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7.7.3 Epsilon!House!Social!–!Diddy!Riese!Project!Date:! 10/30/2014!Project!Area:! Diddy!Riese!Cookies,!Westwood!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 4!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 9!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We!went! to!Diddy!Riese!Cookies! in!Westwood! for!Epsilon’s! first! social!of! the!quarter.!Officers!and!candidates!enjoyed!ice!cream!and!cookies!while!also!socializing!with!each!other.!!


This!event!allows!officers!of!TBP!and!candidates!to!interact!with!each!other!outside!of!an!academic!setting.!It!helped!build!closer!relationships!between!individuals!related!to!Tau!Beta!Pi.!!


Everyone!who!attended!paid!for!their!own!desserts.!This!event!cost!little!in!terms!of!time!to!plan!and!personal!cost!for!members!and!candidates!during!the!event.!

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There! were! no! special! problems! encountered.! The! group! who! met! up! at! the! Bruin! Bear! walked!slower!than!expected!and!arrived!later!than!the!pre1determined!time!to!meet!up!at!the!Diddy!Riese!location.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

More!candidates!and!officers!came!out!than!expected,!and!there!were!a!variety!of!candidates!from!all!the!houses.!The!social!event!allowed!candidates!to!meet!other!candidates!better!as!well!as!meet!officers!in!a!closer!setting.!!

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7.7.4 Tau!House!Social!–!KBBQ!Project!Date:! 11/7/2014!Project!Area:! Bud!Namu!KBBQ,!Los!Angeles,!CA!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 18!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 8!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! N/A!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 3!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We!went!to!KBBQ!at!Bud!Namu!KBBQ.!This!social!event!was!organized!by!Tau!House.!!!


This!event!allowed!officers,!members,!and!candidates!to!be!social!and!interact!with!each!other!over!tasty!KBBQ.!!


We!had!more!than!enough!drivers! to!accommodate!everyone! (we!took!6!cars).!The!cost! for!KBBQ!was!$14!per!person!(including!tax!and!tip).!Afterwards,!two!cars!left!to!have!boba!and!the!other!cars!returned!to!Westwood.!!


Valet! was! full! by! the! time! we! arrived,! which! caused! a! slight! delay.! Additionally,! due! to! a!miscommunication,!the!reservation!was!only!for!20!people,!and!not!26.!Luckily,!a!booth!cleared!up!near!the!other!reserved!tables!and!there!was!enough!space!for!everybody.! In!the!future,!trying!an!earlier!time!may!work!better!as!it!will!be!less!busy.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!event!was!a!huge!success!and!everyone!seemed!to!have!a!good!time.!The!turnout!was!great,!with!18!candidates!attending.!

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7.7.5 Epsilon!House!Social!–!Fat!Sal’s!Project!Date:! 11/10/2014!Project!Area:! Fat!Sals!&!Other!Food,!Westwood!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 5!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 9!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We!went!to!Fat!Sal’s!and!other!nearby!eateries!in!Westwood!for!Epsilon’s!second!house!social!of!the!fall! quarter.! Both! officers! and! candidates! socialized! while! eating! a! dinner! of! their! choice! in! the!evening.!!


This!event!allows!officers!of!TBP!and!candidates!to!interact!with!each!other!outside!of!an!academic!setting.!It!helped!build!closer!relationships!between!individuals!related!to!Tau!Beta!Pi.!!


Everyone!who!attended!paid!for!their!own!food.!This!event!cost! little! in!terms!of!time!to!plan!and!personal!cost!for!members!and!candidates!during!the!event.!!


There!were!no!special!problems!encountered.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

More!candidates!and!officers!came!out!than!expected,!and!there!was!a!variety!of!candidates!from!all!the! houses.! The! social! event! allowed! candidates! to!meet! other! candidates! better! as!well! as!meet!officers!in!a!closer!setting.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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7.7.6 Beta!House!Social!–!TLT!Project!Date:! 11/18/2014!Project!Area:! The!Lime!Truck!(TLT)!Westwood!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 10!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 17!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


For!one!of!Beta!House’s! social! during! fall! quarter,!we!went! to! The! Lime!Truck! (TLT)!Restaurant! in!Westwood.!There!candidates!and!members!could!enjoy!some!good!food!while!socializing!with!each!other.!!


This!event!allowed!candidates!and!officers!to!socialize!and!interact!outside!of!an!academic!setting.!This!event!also!allowed!officers!and!candidates!to!interact!with!each!other!and!help!the!officers!to!get!to!know!them!better.!!


The!event!cost!very!little!in!terms!of!time!and!money!spent!by!members!and!candidates!during!the!event.!The!fact!that!TLT!has!specials!for!Taco!Tuesday!further!allowed!people!to!not!need!to!spend!as!much!on!food.!!


No!major! problems! were! encountered! during! this! event.! The! only! difficulty! came! from! the! large!amount! of! candidates! and! members! that! attended,! making! seating! in! the! restaurant! more!challenging!than!anticipated.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,! the! event! turned! out! quite! well! with! many! candidates! attending! from! all! four! houses.!Despite!the!difficulties!with!the!seating,!it!was!good!to!have!such!a!large!number!of!people!attend.!The! social! provided! a! great! opportunity! for! candidates! and! officers! to! interact! and!many! people!continued!to!socialize!after!the!social!had!ended.!!

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7.7.7 Pi!House!Social!–!Game!Night!Project!Date:! 11/21/2014!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 23!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! N/A!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


This!event!was!organized!at!the!TBP!room!for!members!and!initiates!to!mingle!over!card!games.!This!event!took!place!on!a!Friday!evening!after!midterms,!which!made!it!convenient!for!many!students!to!attend.!!


This! event! was! a! great! bonding! experience! between! engineers! from! different! backgrounds! and!interest.!This!was!a!wonderful!place! to!meet!people! from!different!house!and!also!strengthen! the!engineering!community!at!UCLA.!!


There!was!no!cost!to!this!event.!Everyone!was!required!to!show!up!at!7:30pm!on!Friday.!!


We!faced!a!problem!of!accommodating!different!games!proposed!by!the!participants.!However,!we!had!three!tables!each!of!which!had!a!different!game!and!people!could!hop!in!and!hop!out.!This!also!encouraged!communication!with!everyone!at!the!event.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!a!success,!a!good!experience!for!a!lot!of!candidates!to!interact!amongst!themselves!and!with!the!Pi!House!leaders.!!As!one!of!the!last!social!events!of!the!quarter,!it!also!allowed!many!candidates!to!fulfill!their!social!event!requirement.!

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7.7.8 Tau!House!Social!–!Horrible!Bosses!2!Project!Date:! 12/2/2014!Project!Area:! Bruin!Regency!Theater!in!Westwood!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 10!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! N/A!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We!watched!Horrible!Bosses!2!at!the!Bruin!Regency!Theater!in!Westwood.!Tau!House!organized!this!social!event.!!!


This!event!allowed!officers!and!candidates!to!be!social!and!interact!with!each!other!while!watching!a!movie.!Everyone!talked!and!got!to!know!each!other!better!when!we!met!up!and!walked!over!to!the!theater!together,!and!then!enjoyed!the!comedy!and!the!popcorn!at!the!theater.!!


The!cost!for!each!person’s!movie!ticket!was!$8.50.!!!


Originally!we!had!planned!on!playing!Frisbee!for!our!social.!However,!it!rained!for!the!majority!of!the!day,!so!we!decided!to!change!it!to!a!movie!so!as!to!stay!dry!and!clean.!Unfortunately,!this!plan!takes!more!time!than!playing!Frisbee!and!therefore!two!of!the!candidates!couldn’t!stay!for!the!movie!and!were!only!able!to!come!socialize!with!us!for!the!half!hour!between!meeting!up!and!going!inside!the!theater.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

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7.8 Winter!Officer!Retreat!Project!Date:! 1/11/2015!Project!Area:! Big!Bear,!CA!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 33!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 15!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 40!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The!winter!retreat!serves!as!a!time!for!all!of!the!officers!and!active!members!to!have!the!opportunity!to!build!camaraderie!with!each!other.!This!retreat!took!place!at!a!cabin!at!Big!Bear!Mountain.!The!retreat! lasted! from! Friday! evening! through! Sunday! morning! and! consisted! of! both! social! and!administrative!events.!As!previously! stated,! the!main!objective! is! to! create!a! closeness!among! the!active!members,! and! this! was! achieved! through! various! games! and! outdoors! activities.! The!most!notable!activity!occurred!when!approximately!half!of!the!attendees!went!to!the!mountain!slopes!for!a!day!of!snowboarding!and!skiing.!While!those!members!were!away!from!the!cabin,!the!rest!of!the!members!played!various!games!in!the!cabin!and!also!enjoyed!the!snow!outdoors.!

!On! the!more! official! side! of! the! events,! a! meeting! was! held! in! order! to! discuss! various! pressing!topics.!One!important!topic!of!conversation!involved!incorporating!more!bonding!into!the!initiation!process,!leading!to!an!alteration!of!the!initiation!process!for!the!Spring!initiation!as!a!test!trial.!Also!discussed!was!the!implementation!of!more!beneficial!corporate!relations!for!TBP!members.!


The!retreat!provided!the!group!with!a!chance!to!pursue!excellence!for!future!initiation!processes!by!sparking!a!discussion!about!the!pros!and!cons!of!the!previous!process.!The!retreat!also!provided!all!of! the! attendees! with! the! opportunity! to! strive! for! closer! bonds! with! the! other! members! and!improve!soft!skills.!!


The!main!cost!of! the!event!was!booking!the!cabin! for! two!nights.!Other!costs! included!gas! for! the!drivers!and!the!food!for!two!breakfast!meals,!one!lunch!and!one!dinner.!Personal!costs!were!limited!to!the!cost!of!snowboarding!and!skiing.!!


There!were!no!major!problems!that!arose.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!a!definite!success.!Aside!from!having!the!chance!to!get!away!from!school!and!relax!for!a! nice! weekend,! attendees! got! the! chance! to! meet! new! members! and! members! that! had! not!

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7.9 !TBP!Officers1on1Ice!Skating!Social!Winter!2015!Project!Date:! 1/18/2015!Project!Area:! Ice!at!Santa!Monica!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 8!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Officers!on!Ice!is!a!pretty!simple!social.!Somebody!suggested!that!we!officers!should!go!ice!skating!at!a!nearby!rink!and!we!did!just!that.!!!


Unlike!most!socials!we!have!during!non1initiation!quarters,!this!one!was!targeted!specifically!towards!the!officers!for!the!sake!of!convenience!(though!we!certainly!could!do!this!again!with!distinguished!actives!if!we!had!more!time!to!publicize!the!event).!Ice!skating!is!a!fun!and!surprisingly!social!event!for! officer! members! to! get! to! know! each! other! better! as! they! occasionally! fall,! mildly! hurt!themselves,!and!try!to!stay!out!of!the!way!of!smaller!children.!!


Setting!this!up!wasn’t!too!difficult.!Ice!at!Santa!Monica!required!no!reservations.!Skate!Rentals!and!access! to! the! rink! was! $15! per! person.!We! also! needed! a! couple! drivers! to! drive! everyone! who!wanted!to!go.!The!only!difficult! thing!we!encountered!was!parking.!We!spent!15!minutes!trying!to!find!a! spot! in!a!nearby!parking!garage!until!we! finally! gave!up!and! lucked1out!on! finding!a!21hour!street!parking!spot.!!


See!parking!dilemma!above.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Despite!not!being!held!during!an! initiation!quarter,!the!social!yielded!a!pretty!solid!turnout!among!members!and!officers.!Everyone!had!a!good!time,!no!one!got!hurt,!and!everyone!agreed!that!it’d!be!something!worth!doing!again.!

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7.10 Winter!2015!Game!Night!Project!Date:! 2/6/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!6266!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 8!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 213!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The!TBP!Game!Night!social!was!designed!last!quarter!as!a!last1minte!social!for!TBP!candidates!who!put!of!their!social!event!requirements!until!the!last!minute.!It!was!also!a!lot!of!a!fun!and!because!of!that!I!decided!to!hold!it!again!this!quarter.!The!premise!remains!the!same:!get!a!bunch!of!candidates!to!get!to!know!each!other!a!little!better!via!the!medium!of!games,!which!ranged!from!card!games!to!video!games.!!


In!this!chapter!we!require!all!members!who!wish!to!become!distinguished!active!members!to!attend!at!least!2!social!events!during!a!quarter!sometime!after!their!initiation!quarter.!And,!as!with!all!other!socials,! this!one!servers!to!building!bonds!and!friendships!between!existing!and!new!members.!No!sense!in!having!an!“honors!society”!if!there’s!no!socializing!in!said!society.!!


Like! last!quarter! I!brought!over!an!201in!LCD!TV!and!my!Wii!U!so!that!candidates!could!play!either!Super!Smash!Bros!for!Wii!U,!Mario!Kart!8,!or!Super!Mario!3D!World.!I!brought!Dixit!over!again,!and!one!TBP!member/UCLA!alumnus!was!gracious!to!bring!over!one!of!my!favorite!new!boards!games:!Seven!Wonders,!which!is!kinda!like!Settlers!of!Catan!but!not.!!



V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Despite!not!being!held!during!an! initiation!quarter,!the!social!yielded!a!pretty!solid!turnout!among!members!and!officers!(and!by!solid!I!mean!more!than,! like,!4!people!including!myself! :P).!We!even!went!out!to!frame!broiler!to!get!some!food!and!came!back!to!the!office!to!play!more!games!until!11!PM.!!

VI. EXHIBITS!!!I!didn’t!get!any!pictures!of!the!event!itself,!but!here!are!some!images!of!the!games!we!played!for!those!who!may!want!to!get!their!hands!on!them!(the!last!one!is!Seven!Wonders):!

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7.11 Publicity!A1Board!Project!Date:! 2/8/2015!Project!Area:! Los!Angeles,!California!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 4!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 22!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


An!A1Board!3!feet!in!height!and!2.5!feet!in!width!was!constructed!out!of!plywood!and!particle!board.!This!board!was! then!painted!over!with!white!primer!and!navy!blue!paint.!A!design!advertising! the!tutoring!program!was!then!painted!on!one!side!using!combinations!of!white,!yellow!and!navy!blue!paint.!!


By!advertising!the!tutoring!program,!the!ability!of!that!program!to!contribute!to!the!education!and!advancement!of!engineering!was!increased.!!Additionally,!the!board!provides!a!permanent!platform!from!which!additional!publicity!campaigns!promoting!Tau!Beta!Pi!activities!can!be!launched.!!


The!wood!and!frame!of!the!board!came!from!recycled!materials!purchased!for!other!projects.!The!cost!of!the!paint!and!the!brushes!was!approximately!$50.!!!


The! tutoring! advertisement! was! painted! free1handed! with! substandard! results! and! had! to! be!repainted.!The!second!time!it!was!painted!over!a!drawn!in!by!pencil!design!to!much!better!effect.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

A!standing!Publicity!A1Board!with!one!side!painted!with!a!tutoring!advertisement!and!the!other!side!painted!navy!blue!was!constructed!and!immediately!put!to!use.!

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7.12 KBBQ!Social!Project!Date:! 2/13/2015!Project!Area:! Bud!Namu,!LA!(K1town!area)!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 9!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Time! for! another! social! event!! While! this! does! exclude! the! possibility! of! vegetarian! members!attending,!there!are!still!plenty!of!members!who!would!be!more!than!happy!to!find!any!excuse!to!get!$12!all1out1can1eat!Korean!BBQ!during!a!stressful1or1otherwise!quarter.!!

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In!this!chapter!we!require!all!members!who!wish!to!become!distinguished!active!members!to!attend!at!least!2!social!events!during!a!quarter!sometime!after!their!initiation!quarter.!And,!as!with!all!other!socials,! this!one!servers!to!building!bonds!and!friendships!between!existing!and!new!members.!No!sense!in!having!an!“honors!society”!if!there’s!no!socializing!in!said!society.!Every!once!in!a!while,!we!like!to!add!a!competitive!element!to!this!social!by!counting!the!number!of!plates!of!meat!each!table!goes!through,!though!that!night!the!members!weren’t!feeling!particularly!competitive.!!


Like!most! restaurant1centric!socials,!each!participant!pays! for!his!or!her!own!food.!The!only! things!that!I!really!had!to!worry!about!were:!A:!getting!a!reservation!for!the!place,!B:!wrestling!with!Friday!night!LA!traffic,!and!C:!finding!volunteer!drivers!!


No!particularly!unexpected!complications!came!up! in!preparing!for!this!event,!besides!the!already1mentioned!Friday1night!LA!traffic.!Fortunately,!the!driver!in!my!car!was!keen!and!clever!enough!with!the!backroads!of!Hollywood! to!get!us! to!Bud!Namu!on! time!with!accordance!with! the! reservation!time!I!had!set!up.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Despite!not!being!held!during!an! initiation!quarter,!the!social!yielded!a!pretty!solid!turnout!among!members!and!officers!(and!by!solid!I!mean!more!than,!like,!4!people!including!myself!:P).!Everyone!had!a!good!time!with!great!food!and!great!friends.!!

VI. EXHIBITS!!!Couple!pics!I!took!during!the!event.!Our!group!ended!up!taking!up!2!tables,!one!with!6!and!the!other!with!4:!

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7.13 Winter!2015!Karaoke!Night!Project!Date:! 2/17/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!(BH!8500)!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 9!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The! event! consisted! of!members! coming! to! Boelter! Penthouse! to! sing! along! to! YouTube! songs! to!relax! during! midterm! season.! The! setup! was! a! laptop! connected! to! a! projector,! along! with! two!microphones!and!a!speaker.!Each!attendee!got!their!choice!of!singing!and/or!picking!a!song!for!the!group!to!sing!along!to.!!


The!event!provided!the!members!with!an!opportunity!to!bond!by!singing!with!each!other!to!music!to!de1stress!during!a!stressful!portion!of!the!quarter.!The!event!also!provided!everyone!in!attendance!with!a!chance!to!laugh!at!themselves!while!enjoying!good!music.!This!two!benefits!will!also!lead!to!better! performance! when! they! take! their! exams! because! a! person’s! mood! is! very! important! for!learning.!!


No!costs!incurred!for!the!event.!!


No!major!problems.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!a!success!because!the!people!who!came!to!the!event!sang!along!and!everyone!felt!accepted!for!their!songs!and!their!singing,!leading!to!a!very!joyful!time.!Everyone!who!came!got!the!opportunity!to!pick!multiple!songs!and!sing!along!whenever!they!wanted!to.!

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7.14 Winter!2015!Office!Clean!Up!Project!Date:! 2/28/2015!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!and!Office!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 7!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


In! order! to! function! as! a! more! efficient! organization,! we! spent! an! afternoon! reorganizing! and!cleaning!out!our!chapter’s!office.!!This!included!disposing!of!materials!that!were!no!longer!needed,!as!well! as! vacuuming! the! floor,!wiping! down! all! the!whiteboards,! and! rearranging! the! tables! and!chairs! in!the!tutoring!room.!!Cleaning!up!allowed!us!to!do!inventory!on!our!supplies!as!well,!which!helped!us!note!what!expenses!might!need!to!be!made! in! the! future.! !After!a! lunch!break,!we!also!took!the!time!to!stuff!envelopes!with!invitation!letters!that!would!be!sent!to!eligible!candidates!for!spring!initiation.!!


At!the!core!of!TBP’s!principles!and!objectives!is!the!furthering!of!good!engineering!principles,!which!includes!designed!solutions!that!optimize!a!system:!in!this!case,!the!system!we!address!was!our!own!office.!!Organizing!ourselves!internally!enables!us!to!more!effectively!plan!and!execute!our!projects!that!promote!the!professional!development!of!engineering!at!our!university.!!


No!costs!incurred!for!the!event,!other!than!the!time!spent!by!our!officers.!!


No!major!problems.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

We!were!able!to!dispose!of!excessive!supplies!in!our!room!and!clear!up!space!for!upcoming!projects.!!A! pleasant! side! product! of! this! clean! up! was! stumbling! across! the! older! works! of! our! chapter,!including!a!President’s!notebook!from!the!1970s,!which!made!us!reflect!on!the!legacy!and!tradition!of!excellence! that!Tau!Beta!Pi! represents.! !With! the!envelope!stuffing,!we!were!also!able! to!get!a!head!start!on!preparing!for!next!quarter’s!spring!initiation.!

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7.15 Winter!2015!Hunger!Games!Project!Date:! 3/7/2015!Project!Area:! Social!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 31!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 213!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


The! Club! Liaisons! hosted! the! 2nd! Annual!Hunger!Games! at! the!UCLA! Sculpture!Garden.! The! event!took!place!on!Saturday,!March!7,!2015,!from!1!pm!–!3!pm.!We!reached!out!to!all!of!the!engineering!clubs! to!come!out!and!play! in!a! simulated!“hunger!games”!event,!where!each!club!was!put! into!a!district.!During!the!entire!event,!we!played!games,!including!Capture!the!Flag,!Trivia,!and!a!free1for1all/cornucopia!with!the!“tributes.”!!!


This!event!related!to!the!objectives!of!Tau!Beta!Pi!by!connecting!the!different!engineering!clubs!on!campus.!We!created!this!event!so!that!engineers!from!different!clubs!could!come!out!and!meet!one!another!in!an!informal,!fun!environment.!!!


The!event!was!free!for!all!players.!The!gamemasters!did!spend!about!$10!on!supplies!such!as!post!it!stickers!and!snacks!for!the!event.!!!


There!were!no!significant!issues!with!the!event.!The!event!was!run!relatively!smoothly.!There!were!some!issues!involving!people!arrivng!at!the!venue!late.!In!addition,!some!of!the!games!lasted!longer!than!expected,!which!prevented!us!from!going!through!the!entire!day's!agenda.!One!of!the!events!was!taken!out!to!save!time.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,! this! event! was! a! great! success.! Most! of! the! players! provided! positive! feedback! and!expressed! a! desire! to! play! again.! In! addition,!we! received! good! feedback! on! how! to! improve! this!event!for!future!quarters.!!!!!!!!

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7.16 Pi!Day!Sale!(Fundraiser)!Project!Date:! 3/13/2015!Project!Area:! Court!of!Sciences!Quad!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 10!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 20!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!

I. PROJECT!DESCRIPTION!

In!the!spirit!of!celebrating!Pi!Day,!the!treasurers!Ricky!and!Hannah!organized!a!fundraiser!to!sell!pies!and!Pi!day!T1shirts.!!


Pi!Da! is!for!math!lovers!and!this!year!2015!is!very!special!because!the!date! is!3.14.15.! !Our!T0shirt!design!reflected!that.! !As!engineers,!math! is!the!fundamental!building!block!of!our!work!of!solving!problems.! ! Additionally,! having! this! Pi! Day! fundraiser! increases! the! visibility! of! Tau! Beta! Pi! to! the!community.!!


We!had!to!pay!for!the!cost!of!Pies!and!the!cost!of!T1shirts,!but!recovered!the!costs!and!made!a!profit!by! reselling!both.! !We!also!had! to!organize! logistical!aspects!such!as! reserving! the!quad,! reserving!tables,!making!Pi!Day!signs,!and!acquiring!napkins,!utensils,!etc,!for!selling!the!pies.!!


The!T1shirts!we!ordered!came! late,! after!Pi!day.! ! The! supplier! (Ooshirts)!offered! to!do!a! complete!refund!if!we!returned!the!shirts!or!refund!half!if!we!kept!the!shirts.!!We!chose!to!keep!the!shirts!for!next!year.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

We!raised!around!$40!for!the!pies,!and!have!Pi!Day!T1shirts!that!have!not!been!sold!which!will!be!sold!again!during!E1week!Spring!2015!and!next!year!if!necessary.!!!

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7.17 TBP!Freshman/Sophomore!Scholarship!Project!Date:! 3/14/2015!Project!Area:! UCLA!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 10!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 4!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Create!an!application!and!screening!process!to!choose!one!freshman!and!one!sophomore!to!award!a!$500! scholarship.! Candidates! were! asked! to! complete! an! application! that! evaluated! their! overall!academic!skill!and!extracurricular!activity!participation.!!


Candidates!were!chosen!under!the!same!strict!criteria!of!academic!excellence!and!proper!character.!!


None.!!


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V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!winners!are!freshman!Cayla!Whiteside!and!sophomore!Marcelo!Roja.!!

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7.18 Spring!Officer!Retreat!Project!Date:! 4/4/2015!Project!Area:! Carlsbad,!CA!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 25!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 24!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Spring!retreat! is!an!event!designed!for!officers!and!active!members!to!enjoy!a!day!with!each!other!and!get!to!know!each!other!through!fun!and!games.!This!year’s!spring!retreat!occurred!at!the!house!of!an!officer!in!Carlsbad,!CA,!where!officers!and!active!members!spent!a!single!night!playing!games!and!enjoying!the!beach!scene.!!!


The!main!Tau!Beta!Pi!objective!that!spring!retreat!meets!is!creating!a!sense!of!community!through!personal!relationships.!The!event!gives!constant!opportunity!for!a!241hour!period!to!mingle!amongst!the!people!attending.!!


The!primary!cost!incurred!was!for!food,!since!the!residence!used!was!without!cost.!Gas!also!factored!in!as!a!cost!because!the!event!took!place!approximately!100!miles!away!from!UCLA.!!


No!special!problems!occurred.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The! spring! retreat! succeeded! in! providing! the! attendees!with! a! great! opportunity! to! get! to! know!each!other!in!a!fun!and!relaxing!setting!at!the!beach.!The!retreat!also!gave!a!good!start!to!the!spring!quarter!with!a!time!to!unwind!before!the!bulk!of!school!work!began.!Overall,!a!good!experience!for!all!who!attended.!

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7.19 Spring!Karaoke!Night!Project!Date:! 5/18/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 15!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 6!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The!karaoke!night!is!an!event!in!which!current!members!and!candidates!are!given!the!opportunity!to!sing!with!friends!to!any!song!of!their!choosing.!The!setup!of!the!event!involves!a!laptop!connected!to!a!projector!in!order!to!project!youtube!sing!along!videos!on!a!big!screen!for!members!to!sing!along!with!the!microphone!and!speaker!to!relax!and!have!fun!during!midterm!season.!!!


Karaoke!night!promotes!a!group!feeling!from!the!sense!of!relaxation!that!comes!from!participating!in!a!social!event!during!the!midterm!season.!!


The!only!cost!is!the!booking!of!Boelter!Penthouse!at!$30.!!


No!special!problems!occurred.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!overall!result!of!the!event!is!that!the!candidates!had!a!good!chance!to!interact!with!officers!and!current!members!during!what!is!often!a!stressful!time!for!many!students.!The!candidates!and!current!members!had!an!entertaining!time!laughing!and!singing!with!each!other!to!create!a!sense!of!community!at!the!event.!

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7.20 Spring!Game!Night!Project!Date:! 5/29/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!6266!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 9!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 0.5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Another! initiation!quarter,!another!group!of!candidates!who!put!of! their!social! requirement!to!the!last!minute…!Or!so! I! thought.!Right!before! I!hosted!this!event,! I!anticipated!that! there!remained!a!handful!of!our!31!candidates!who!had!yet!to!complete!their!social!requirement.!Imagine!my!surprise!when!I! learned!that!most!of!them!had!already!completed!their!social!requirement,!though!I’m!also!guessing!a! few!of! them!either! came! to! complete! their! social! elective! requirement! (if! that!was! the!path!they!chose)!or!wanted!to!increase!their!house’s!total!point!count.!The! game! night! is! little! more! than! a! fun! little! social! event! this! chapter! hosts! where! candidates,!members,!and!even!their!friends!can!stop!by!the!tutoring!room!and!play!some!wholesome,!family1friendly!board!games.!!


In!this!chapter!we!require!all!members!who!wish!to!become!distinguished!active!members!to!attend!at!least!2!social!events!during!a!quarter!sometime!after!their!initiation!quarter.!And,!as!with!all!other!socials,! this!one! serves! to!building!bonds!and! friendships!between!existing!and!new!members.!No!sense!in!having!an!“honors!society”!if!there’s!no!socializing!in!said!society.!!


Some!TBP!members!had!already!stocked!the!office!with!a!few!interesting!board!games,!so!I!brought!those! out! along! with! a! few! decks! of! cards,! Jenga,! and! my! personal! favorite,! Dixit.! Probably! the!easiest!event!I!ever!had!to!put!on.!!



V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

For! a! last! minute! social! in! the! spring! quarter,! this! turned! out! better! than! expected,! especially!considering!that!this!event!was!really!required!of!the!candidates.!I!was!expecting!maybe!5!people!at!but!I!ended!up!with!around!ten!instead!^__^.!Maybe!the!next!time!a!social!chair!wants!to!hold!this!event!they!could!consider!bringing!cookies!or!snacks!or!something!to!improve!turnout!even!more.!!!!

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7.21 Spring!House!Socials!

7.21.1 Pi!House!Social!–!800!Degrees!Pizza!Project!Date:! 4/24/2015!Project!Area:! Social!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 23!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 8!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 15!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! none!


House! food! social! at! 800! Degrees,! served! as! an! opportunity! for! candidates,! officers,! and!distinguished!actives!to!get!to!know!each!other!over!food.!!!

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Bettering!engineering!for!engineers!through!pizza.!!


None.!!


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V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Very!high!turnout,! including!almost!the!entirety!of!Pi!House!and!many!distinguished!actives.!Social!was!successful!in!getting!people!to!get!to!know!each!other.!!!

7.21.2 Epsilon!House!Social!–!Hiking!Project!Date:! 4/26/2015!Project!Area:! Social!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 15!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 0.5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


The!Epsilon!House!Leaders!hosted!a!hiking!social!in!Temescal!Canyon!open!to!all!members!and!candidates.!The!event!took!place!on!Sunday!April!26,!2015!from!9:30!am1!12:30!pm.!It!was!a!3!mile!hike!attended!by!candidates,!house!leaders,!officers!and!a!distinguished!active!member.!!!


This!event!helped!foster!camaraderie!and!bonding!between!Tau!Beta!Pi!members!and!candidates.!It!also!served!as!a!relaxed!environment!to!allow!candidates!to!candidly!meet!and!talk!to!house!leaders!and!officers.!!


Parking!cost!was!$7!per!car,!and!with!3!cars,!the!total!cost!was!$21.!!

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There!were!no!issues!with!the!event.!One!possible!improvement!would!be!to!crowdsource!a!hiking!location,!although!this!location!worked!out!well,!and!allow!more!advanced!hikers!to!go!for!a!longer!route.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!this!event!was!a!success,!all!the!attendees!seemed!to!enjoy!the!bonding!and!experience,!and!for!one!particular!Epsilon!house!leader!who's!currently!writing!this!report,!the!much!needed!exercise!as!well.!!

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7.21.3 Beta!House!Social!–!Diddy!Riese!Project!Date:! 4/29/2015!Project!Area:! Diddy!Riese,!Westwood!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 5!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 9!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


For!Beta!House’s!in!house!social,!we!went!to!Diddy!Riese!Cookies!in!Westwood.!There!candidates!and!members!socialized!while!enjoying!some!ice!cream!sandwiches!and/or!cookies.!!!


This! event! allowed! candidates! and! officers! to! socialize! and! interact! outside! of! academic!requirements.! This! event! also! allowed! officers! to! meet! some! of! the! candidates! in! order! to! help!better!get!to!know!them.!!


This!event!cost!little!in!terms!of!time!to!plan!and!cost!for!members!and!candidates!during!the!event.!Diddy!Riese!is!extremely!popular!due!to!offering!delicious!ice!cream!sandwiches!and!cookies!for!only!a!couple!of!dollars.!!


There!were!no!special!problems!this!year!with!the!ice!cream!social!as!we!anticipated!a!long!line!and!planned!an!icebreaker!activity!to!do!while!eating!our!ice!cream!sandwiches.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!event!turned!out!to!be!a!success!with!candidates!coming!out!from!all!houses!and!not!just!from!Beta!House.!The!social!was!a!great!opportunity!to!meet!with!some!of!the!candidates!and!the!icebreaker!helped!everyone!get!to!know!each!other.!

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7.21.4 Tau!House!Social!–!Avengers!Age!of!Ultron!Project!Date:! 5/3/2015!Project!Area:! Westwood!Fox!Theater!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 18!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 9!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! N/A!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We!went!to!see!the!new!Avengers!movie,!Age!of!Ultron,!at!the!Fox!Theater!in!Westwood.!We!met!at!the!Bruin!Bear!on!campus!and!arrived!at!the!theater!about!45!minutes!prior!to!showtime.!!


This!event!allowed!members!and!electees!to!bond!over!a!fun!action!movie.!!!


The! cost! of! tickets! was! $11! per! person.! Additionally,! some! people! chose! to! get! food! before! the!movie!or!at!the!theater.!!


No!problems.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!event!was!a!success!with!a!good!turnout!and!everyone!enjoyed!the!movie.!! !

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7.21.5 Epsilon!House!Social!–!KBBQ!Project!Date:! 5/6/15!Project!Area:! Social!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 12!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 0.5!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 213!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


The!Epsilon!House!Leaders!hosted!a!KBBQ!Social!at!Bud!Namu!in!K1Town.!Everyone!ate!(a!lot),!had!good!laughs,!and!made!great!memories!with!one!another.!!!

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This! social! relates! to! the! objectives! of! Tau! Beta! Pi! by! getting! the! candidates! to! better! know! the!officers/distinguished!actives!and!vise!versa.!Through!more!casual!events! such!as! this,!we!hope! to!get!candidates!more!interested!in!the!organization!through!its!people,!so!they!will!be!more!willing!to!continue!participating!in!Tau!Beta!Pi!after!initiation.!!In!addition,!socials!like!these!help!fortify!bonds!with!existing!members!that!will!hopefully!remain!strong!post!graduation!and!into!the!work!field.!!!


The! dinner! cost! $11.99! per! person! (not! tax! included).! The! only! other! requirement!was! to! bring! a!happy!mind!and!an!empty!stomach.!!


There! were! no! significant! issues! with! this! social.! However,! there! was! a! lack! of! attendance! by!candidates! for! this!event.!This!most! likely!came!from!planning!the!event! in! the!middle!of!midterm!season.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,! this! event! was! a! success.! Despite! the! low! attendance! of! candidates,! everyone! enjoyed!themselves.!

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7.21.6 Pi!House!Social!–!Game!Night!Project!Date:! 5/6/2015!Project!Area:! Social!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 13!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 8!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 5!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! none!


Activities! included! board! and! card! games,! as! well! as! a! lonely! FE! review! manual! which! nobody!touched!despite!it!being!set!up!as!a!fun1station!just!like!everything!else.!!!


Getting!engineers!to!get!to!know!and!talk!to!each!other!over!light1hearted!games.!!


None.!!


The!House! leader!who!was!supposed!to!run!this!event!had!been!kidnapped!by!his! friends!to!go!to!Legoland!for!his!birthday.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Moderate!turnout,!but!conversation!was!lively!and!the!event!was!successful!overall.!!

7.21.7 Beta!House!Social!–!Laser!Tag!Project!Date:! 5/20/2015!Project!Area:! Social!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 6!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 5!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! N/A!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!

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Candidates! and! officers! gathered! at! the! Boelter! /! Engineering! IV! /! Engineering! V! intersection! and!carpooled!to!Zone!Club,!Inc.!for!the!$12!21round!special.!Some!people!decided!to!leave!immediately!after!the!two!rounds!and!others!decided!to!meet!at!In1N1Out!for!dinner!afterwards.!!!


The!event!served!as!a!possible!social!for!the!candidates!to!fulfill!their!social!requirement.!The!event!is! aligned! with! Tau! Beta! Pi’s! objectives! as! it! promotes! socializing! and! bonding! among! fellow!engineers,!creating!a!more!tight1knit!community!among!the!members!of!Tau!Beta!Pi.!!


There!was!no!cost!to!Tau!Beta!Pi!–!attendees!paid!for!their!own!laser!tag!rounds!and!food!at!dinner.!!


No!special!problems!were!encountered.!There!was!quite!a!bit!of!traffic!on!the!ride!to!the!laser!tag!location,!but!on!the!way!back,!there!was!no!traffic.!!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!very! successful!overall.!Both! those!new!to! laser! tag!and! laser! tag!veterans!enjoyed!themselves.!There!was!a!good!turnout!and!rides!were!not!an!issue!for!the!event.!!

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!!!Figure!1:!Attendees!ready!for!a!round!of!laser!tag!!!

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7.21.8 Tau!House!Social!–!Ultimate!Frisbee!Project!Date:! 5/25/2015!Project!Area:! Ultimate!Frisbee!social!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 14!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 2!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! N/A!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We!played!Ultimate!Frisbee!with!the!candidates!in!the!grass!to!the!side!of!Janss!Steps.!!!


This!event!allowed!officers!and!candidates!to!be!social!and!interact!with!each!other!while!playing!a!game.! Everyone! talked,! got! to! know! each! other! better,! and! demonstrated! teamwork! skills! while!playing.!!




Originally!we!wanted!to!play!in!Wilson!plaza!as!this!would!be!flat!ground!that!had!enough!space!to!play.! However,! when! we! got! there! other! groups! were! already! using! it! so! we! had! to! settle! for! a!relatively!flat!area!on!the!hill!next!to!Janss!steps.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Overall,!the!event!was!a!success!and!everyone!seemed!to!have!a!good!time.!!! !

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8.1 !Fall!Candidate!Orientation!Project!Date:! 10/8/2014!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 20!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! All!candidates!(61)!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The!UCLA!chapter!of!TBP!held! two!Candidate!Orientations!at! the!beginning!of!October! for!eligible!members! to! learn!more!about!TBP!and! the! requirements! and!benefits!of! joining!our! chapter.! The!President! and!Vice! Presidents! gave! a! short! presentation.! Several! officers! also! attended! to! answer!questions!from!the!potential!candidates.!!


By! informing! the! potential! candidates! of! the! initiation! process,!we! ensured! that! each! person!was!fully!prepared! for! the!process!and!understood! the!high!quality!of! character! and!excellence! that! is!expected!of!Tau!Bates.!!


Food!was!provided!to!the!potential!candidates!and!officers.!!


There!were!no!major!problems!at!this!event.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

While!there!was!a!smaller!turnout!of!potential!candidates!than!last!year,!we!were!still!pleased!with!the!turnout!and!the!candidates.!

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8.2 !Fall!Candidate!Sorting!Project!Date:! 10/16/2014!Project!Area:! Engineering!IV!Patio!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 20!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 48!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 2!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


As! the! first! event! after! submitting! their! candidacy,! candidates!were! invited! to! the! Engineering! IV!building!patio!to!participate!in!the!Candidate!Sorting!event.!!Candidates!were!signed!in!and!assigned!to! a! house! (Tau,! Beta,! Pi,! or! Epsilon)! as! they! walked! in.! The! house! leaders! then! led! their! house!members! in! a! friendly! inter1house! competition,!where! a! few! group! games!were! played! (like! how!many!feet!on!the!ground,!electricity).!!Afterward,!candidates!in!each!house!were!served!sandwiches!and!were!able!to!sit!down!together!and!get!to!know!each!other!more.! !This!was!the!first!and!only!initiation! event!where! all! the! candidates! and! officers!were! together! at! the! same! time,! giving! the!candidates!a!unique!opportunity!to!meet!all!the!officers!and!everyone!else!in!their!initiating!class.!!


This!event!gave!candidates!a!chance!to!get!to!know!each!other!and!the!officers!better.!!It!also!gave!each!house!the!opportunity!to!build!a!sense!of!identity!and!brotherhood!as!they!competed!against!the!other!houses.!!


This!event!cost!Tau!Beta!Pi!about!$150!for!the!food!to!feed!70!people.!!


Unfortunately,!not!all!of!candidates!were!able!to!attend.!!Those!who!did!not!attend!did!not!get!the!opportunity!to!meet!their!house!leaders!or!the!other!members!in!their!house.!!Towards!the!end!of!the!evening,! the!outside!patio! turned! very!dark! as! the! surrounding! lights! did!not! come!on,! and! it!became!hard!to!see.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!successful.!!All!candidates!and!officers!had!fun,!and!some!got!very!involved.!!It!was!a!great!opportunity!to!build!and!strengthen!both!candidate1officer!and!candidate1candidate!bonds.!!!

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8.3 !Fall!Candidate!Meet!and!Greet!Project!Date:! 10/21/2014!1!10/22/2014!Project!Area:! ESUC!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 20!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 61!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


During!Meet!and!Greet,!each!candidate!signed!up!for!a!301minute!time!slot!during!which!an!officer!talked!with!them!one1on1one.!!!These!casual!conversations!allowed!us!to!get!to!know!the!candidates!more!personally!and!allowed!the!candidates!to!ask!us!any!questions!they!had!about!Tau!Beta!Pi!or!the!initiation!process.!!!


This!event!allowed!the!candidates! to! learn!more!about!Tau!Beta!Pi!and! the! initiation!process,!and!allowed!officers!to!evaluate!the!character!and!integrity!of!each!candidate!to!make!sure!they!uphold!the!standard!that!Tau!Beta!Pi!represents.!!It!also!allowed!for!new!candidates!to!make!an!immediate!and!strong!bond!with!an!officer!early!in!the!initiation!process.!


Officers!signed!up! for!21hour!shifts!of! talking!with!candidates,!and!all! candidates!were! required! to!attend.!


There!were!no!problems!of!note.!V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The! event! was! successful,! as! we! were! able! to! meet! all! the! candidates! and! build! meaningful!relationships!between!the!officers!and!the!candidates.!!

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8.4 !Fall!Bent!Polish!Project!Date:! 11/3/14111/4/14,!11/12/14111/13/14!Project!Area:! Bent!Statue!outside!Boelter!Hall!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 61!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 0.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! None!


Polishing! the! Bent! statue! located! outside! Boelter! Hall! is! one! of! the! candidate! requirements! for!initiating!into!TBP.!!Officers!were!present!to!supervise!and!talk!with!the!candidates!as!they!used!rags!and!brass!cleaner!to!polish!the!Bent!for!30!minutes.! ! It!was!a!great!opportunity!for!candidates!and!officers!to!socialize!with!one!another.!!Bent!Polish!was!spread!out!across!four!different!days!to!make!sure!that!all!candidates!had!the!opportunity!to!complete!this!requirement.!!!


Completion!of!this!requirement!gives!us!insight!into!the!exemplary!character!of!the!candidates,!and!allows! for!bonds! to! form!between!officers! and! candidates.! !Many!daring! candidates!also! chose! to!attempt!the!Bent!Challenge,!or!fitting!their!body!through!the!center!of!the!bent!(as!pictured!below).!!


All! candidates!were! required! to! polish! for! 30!minutes,! and! officers! signed! up! for! 1! hour! shifts! to!supervise.!!Some!brass!cleaner!and!rags!were!purchased!for!$15.!!


There!were!no!problems!of!note.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!Bent!statue!looked!very!shiny!after!four!days!of!polishing,!and!the!candidates!and!officers!were!able!to!socialize!and!have!fun.!!!

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8.5 !Fall!Candidate!Quiz!Project!Date:! 11/19/2014!1!11/20/2014!Project!Area:! Boelter!2444,!ESUC!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 20!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 62!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


All!candidates!were!required!to!take!a!quiz!as!part!of!the!initiation!process.!!This!quiz!allowed!them!to!demonstrate!their!knowledge!of!TBP’s!history!and!the!history!of!our!chapter.!!Each!candidate!had!three!attempts!to!score!70!out!of!100!points.!!Candidates!also!submitted!their!signature!project!and!initiation! fee! at! this! time.! ! Since! this! is! the! last! mandatory! initiation! event! before! the! Initiation!Ceremony,!after!the!quiz!an!officer!sat!down!with!each!candidate!to!briefly!discuss!the!candidate’s!interest!in!staying!involved!with!TBP!and!to!get!feedback!on!the!initiation!process.!!!!


Passing!the!candidate!quiz!is!one!of!the!requirements!for!initiation!into!TBP.!!By!demonstrating!their!knowledge!of!the!history!and!mission!of!TBP,!candidates!showed!their!high!standard!of!excellence.!!In! addition,! the! one1on1one! conversations! between! officers! and! candidates! held! after! the! quiz!allowed!us!to!gather!feedback!on!the!initiation!process!and!see!which!candidates!were!interested!in!further!involvement!with!our!chapter!of!TBP.!!


There!was!the!cost!of!printing!65!copies!of!the!candidate!quiz!and!answer!keys,!and!officers!signed!up!for!1!hours!shifts!of!supervising,!grading!quizzes,!and!talking!with!candidates.!!


There!were! no!major! problems.! ! A! few! candidates! were! unable! to! take! the! quiz! at! the! schedule!times,!but!they!made!arrangements!to!take!the!quiz!at!another!time.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!successful!in!testing!and!ensuring!that!candidates!met!the!standards!for!initiation!into!TBP,!and!possessed!knowledge!of!the!history!and!mission!of!TBP.!!Valuable!feedback!on!the!initiation!process!was!gathered,!and!multiple!candidates!expressed!interest!in!staying!involved,!whether!as!an!officer!or!as!a!Distinguished!Active!member.!

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8.6 !Fall!Initiation!!Project!Date:! 12/9/2014!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 20!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! All!but!one!candidate!(63)!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 4!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! No!


We!held!this!event!to!induct!all!candidates!who!completed!the!requirements!officially!into!Tau!Beta!Pi.!The!ceremony!was!held!according!to!the!procedure!provided!by!Nationals.!!!


Initiation!allows!us!to!reaffirm!our!core!beliefs!as!Tau!Bates!and!formally!recognizes!each!individual!candidate!as!a!member!of!our!prestigious!organization.!All!participants!are!reminded!of!the!values!we!hold!dear!and!the!standard!we!are!called!to!uphold.! !Following! initiation,!Officer!Elections!and!Banquet!were!held.!!


For!Banquet,! Italian! catering!was!ordered! from!Enzo’s! Pizzaria! for! a! total! cost! of! $500.! ! Time!was!spent!by!the!officers!in!the!weeks!prior!to!plan!the!event!and!ensure!its!success.!


With! Initiation! planned! to! start! at! 6:30pm,! banquet! food! was! ordered! for! delivery! by! 8:30pm.!!However,!officer!elections!were!slightly!shorter!than!expected,!causing!the!food!to!arrive!30!minutes!after!elections!finished.!!One!initiate!did!not!attend,!due!to!a!mysterious!memory!lapse!on!his!part.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Initiation! was! successful.! ! The! Penthouse! served! as! a! fine! place! to! hold! Banquet,! although! food!should!be!ordered!for!no!later!than!8:00pm.!

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!Fall!2014!initiation!class!

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8.7 !Spring!Candidate!Orientations!!Project!Date:! 3/31/2015!and!4/1/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 18!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 35!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! 0!


Eligible!students!attended!this!orientation!to!learn!more!about!Tau!Beta!Pi!and!the!requirements!and!benefits!to!joining!our!chapter.!!This!is!the!first!quarter!where!we!introduced!our!revamped!initiation!requirement!system.!!Several!officers,!including!the!officers!interested!in!running!for!President!gave!a! short! presentation,! and! many! more! officers! came! to! answer! questions! from! the! potential!candidates.!!!!!


By! informing! the! potential! candidates! of! the! initiation! process,!we! ensured! that! each! person!was!fully!prepared!for!the!process!and!understood!the!high!quality!of!character!and!excellence!that!befits!a!Tau!Bate.!!


We!provided!food.!!Officers!were!required!to!attend.!!!


None.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

This!round!of!Candidate!Orientations!was!successful!despite! it!being!our! first! time! introducing!and!explaining!our!new!candidate! requirement!system.! ! In! the!end!we!had!over!30!of! the!people!who!attended!these!sessions!decide!to!initiate!into!our!chapter.!!!!!!!

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8.8 !Spring!Candidate!Sorting!Scavenger!Hunt!Project!Date:! 4/9/2015!Project!Area:! Various!locations!on!UCLA's!campus!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 12!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 30!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 7!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


The! sorting! scavenger! hunt! was! designed! to! sort! the! incoming! candidates! into! their! respective!houses:!Tau,!Beta,!Pi,!and!Epsilon.!The!candidates!were!initially!arbitrarily!sorted!into!their!respective!houses,!and!then!the!four!house!groups!were!sent!on!a!scavenger!hunt!which!encompassed!a!large!amount! of! various! UCLA! buildings.! The! intention! behind! the! scavenger! hunt! was! to! forge!relationships!between!candidates.!The!scavenger!hunt! replaced! the!sorting!social,!which!had!been!held! in! previous! quarters.! This! counted! as! a! social! event! for! the! candidates,! and!was! one! of! the!earlier!initiation!events!for!the!Spring!2015!initiation!quarter.!!


This!event!allowed!officers!of!TBP!and!candidates!to!interact!with!each!other!outside!of!an!academic!setting.!It!helped!build!closer!relationships!between!individuals!related!to!Tau!Beta!Pi.!This!event!also!serves!as!the!candidate's!first!introduction!to!their!house!leaders!and!fellow!initiating!class.!!


This!event!did!not!require!any!special!funding!or!costs.!A!computer!and!paper!were!used!to!print!out!the!clues,!and!cell!phones!were!helpful! to!communicate!between! the!officers!who!were!stationed!around!the!school!at!different!locations.!!!


One!TBP!officer!was!not!in!the!correct!location!during!the!scavenger!hunt,!which!made!one!portion!of!the!event!quite!difficult.!!A!recommendation!for!future!years!would!be!to!also!include!food!either!before!or!after! the!event,!as! it!did!occur!around!dinnertime.!The!sorting!socials! in! the!past!always!had!provided!food!for!candidates.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!overall! response! to! the! scavenger! hunt!was! overwhelmingly! positive.! It! is! recommended! that!this!become!a!permanent!event!for!the! initiation!quarter.!Candidates!said!that!the!scavenger!hunt!was!enjoyable,!and!that!they!got!to!know!the!other!candidates!within!their!house,!along!with!their!house!leaders.!This!was!the!overall!goal!of!the!scavenger!hunt.!Event!did!not!take!much!commitment!or!time!from!the!volunteering!officers,!and!the!candidate1officer! interactions!should!have!provided!entertainment!for!the!officers.!!

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8.9 !Spring!Meet!and!Greet!Project!Date:! 4/14/2015!1!4/15/2015!Project!Area:! ESUC!Lounge!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 18!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 34!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


During! Meet! and! Greet,! each! candidate! signed! up! for! a! 301minute! time! slot! during! which! three!officers!talked!with!them!one1on1one!for!10!minutes!each.!!!These!casual!conversations!allowed!us!to!get!to!know!the!candidates!more!personally!and!allowed!the!candidates!to!ask!us!any!questions!they!had!about!Tau!Beta!Pi!or!the!initiation!process.!!!!


This!event!allowed!the!candidates! to! learn!more!about!Tau!Beta!Pi!and! the! initiation!process,!and!allowed!officers!to!evaluate!the!character!and!integrity!of!each!candidate!to!make!sure!they!uphold!the!standard!that!Tau!Beta!Pi!represents.!!It!also!allowed!for!new!candidates!to!make!an!immediate!and!strong!bond!with!officers!early!in!the!initiation!process.!!


Officers!signed!up! for!1!hour!shifts!of! talking!with!candidates,!and!all! candidates!were!required! to!attend.!!


There!were!no!problems!of!note.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The! event! was! successful,! as! we! were! able! to! meet! all! the! candidates! and! build! meaningful!relationships!between! the!officers! and! the! candidates.! ! Everyone! responded!positively! to! the!new!speed!dating!style!of!Meet!and!Greet.!

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8.10 Spring!Bent!Polish!Project!Date:! 5/8/2015!Project!Area:! TBP!Bent!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 16!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 34!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 0.5!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Polishing! the! Bent! statue! located! outside! Boelter! Hall! is! one! of! the! candidate! requirements! for!initiating!into!TBP.!!Officers!were!present!to!supervise!and!talk!with!the!candidates!as!they!used!rags!and!brass!cleaner!to!polish!the!Bent!for!30!minutes.! ! It!was!a!great!opportunity!for!candidates!and!officers!to!socialize!with!one!another.!!Bent!Polish!was!spread!out!across!four!different!days!to!make!sure!that!all!candidates!had!the!opportunity!to!complete!this!requirement.!!!


Completion!of!this!requirement!gives!us!insight!into!the!exemplary!character!of!the!candidates,!and!allows! for!bonds! to! form!between!officers! and! candidates.! !Many!daring! candidates!also! chose! to!attempt!the!Bent!Challenge,!or!fitting!their!body!through!the!center!of!the!bent.!!


All! candidates!were! required! to! polish! for! 30!minutes,! and! officers! signed! up! for! 1! hour! shifts! to!supervise.!!!


One!candidate!got!stuck!in!the!bent!as!he!attempted!to!do!the!bent!challenge,!causing!a!disturbance!and!EMTs!to!be!called.!!He!eventually!managed!to!extract!himself!from!the!bent!without!causing!any!bodily!harm,!and!declined!the!EMT’s!offer!to!be!taken!to!the!hospital!to!be!checked.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!Bent!statue!looked!very!shiny!after!four!days!of!polishing,!and!the!candidates!and!officers!were!able!to!socialize!and!have!fun.!!

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8.11 Spring!Candidate!Quiz!Project!Date:! 5/12/2015!1!5/13/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 18!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 34!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 2!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


All!candidates!were!required!to!take!a!quiz!as!part!of!the!initiation!process.!!This!quiz!allowed!them!to!demonstrate!their!knowledge!of!TBP’s!history!and!the!history!of!our!chapter.!!Each!candidate!had!three!attempts!to!score!70!out!of!100!points.! !Candidates!also!submitted!their! initiation!fee!at!this!time.!!Since!this!is!the!last!mandatory!initiation!event!before!the!Initiation!Ceremony,!after!the!quiz!an!officer!sat!down!with!each!candidate!to!briefly!discuss!the!candidate’s!interest!in!staying!involved!with!TBP!and!to!get!feedback!on!the!initiation!process.!!!!


Passing!the!candidate!quiz!is!one!of!the!requirements!for!initiation!into!TBP.!!By!demonstrating!their!knowledge!of!the!history!and!mission!of!TBP,!candidates!showed!their!high!standard!of!excellence.!!In! addition,! the! one1on1one! conversations! between! officers! and! candidates! held! after! the! quiz!allowed!us!to!gather!feedback!on!the!initiation!process!and!see!which!candidates!were!interested!in!further!involvement!with!our!chapter!of!TBP.!!


Cost!of!printing!copies!of!the!candidate!quiz!and!answer!keys,!officers!signed!up!for!1!hours!shifts!of!supervising,!grading!quizzes,!and!talking!with!candidates.!!


There!were! no!major! problems.! ! A! few! candidates! were! unable! to! take! the! quiz! at! the! schedule!times,!but!they!made!arrangements!to!take!the!quiz!at!another!time.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

The!event!was!successful!in!testing!and!ensuring!that!candidates!met!the!standards!for!initiation!into!TBP,!and!possessed!knowledge!of!the!history!and!mission!of!TBP.!!Valuable!feedback!on!the!initiation!process!was!gathered,!and!multiple!candidates!expressed!interest!in!staying!involved,!whether!as!an!officer!or!as!a!Distinguished!Active!member.!

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8.12 Spring!Initiation!Project!Date:! 6/2/2015!Project!Area:! Boelter!Penthouse!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 15!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 34!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 4!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 3!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


We!held!this!event!to!induct!all!candidates!who!completed!the!requirements!officially!into!Tau!Beta!Pi.!The!ceremony!was!held!according!to!the!drafted!procedure.!!Afterward!we!held!elections!for!the!upcoming!term!and!had!Flamebroiler!catering!for!a!banquet.!!


Initiation!allows!us!to!reaffirm!our!core!beliefs!as!Tau!Bates!and!formally!recognizes!each!individual!candidate!as!a!member!of!our!prestigious!organization.!It!reminds!them!and!us!of!the!values!we!hold!dear!and!the!standard!we!are!called!to!uphold.!Following! initiation,!we!had!officer!elections!and!a!banquet!to!celebrate!another!successful!year!for!our!chapter.!!


Our!chapter!paid!for!Flamebroiler!(Asian!rice!bowls)!catering!for!about!50!people.!!


None.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

Initiation!was!successful,!we!elected!a!full!officer!board!for!next!term,!and!just!the!right!amount!of!food!was!ordered!for!banquet.!

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9.1 !Fall!Quarter!Officer!Meetings!Project!Date:! 10/6/2014112/8/2014!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 30!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Officer!meetings!occurred!every!Monday!throughout! fall!quarter.!Since! initiation!occurs!during!the!fall,!these!meetings!served!to!ensure!that!all!officers!were!up!to!date!and!on!the!same!page!about!initiation!events!and!requirements.!These!meetings!also!helped!the!board!plan!and!run!a!variety!of!events!for!the!UCLA!community.!!!


These!meetings!helped!to!ensure!that!all!officers!were!up!to!date!and!knew!what!needed!to!be!done!throughout!the!quarter.!!


The! president! needed! to! create! the! agenda! and! run! each! meeting.! ! The! president! missed! one!meeting!due!to!conflicting!job!interviews,!so!the!vice!presidents!ran!meeting!instead.!!


While!most!officers!could!attend,!some!had!class!or!other!conflicts!that!prevented!them!from!doing!so.!!Meeting!minutes!were!sent!out!after!every!meeting!so!those!who!were!unable!to!attend!would!be!able!to!stay!informed.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

These!meetings!helped!the!officer!board!successfully! initiate!the!Fall!2014!class!and!have!a!full!yet!successful!quarter!of!other!mentorship,!social,!and!outreach!events.!

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9.2 !Fall!Officer!Informational!Meeting!Project!Date:! 11/12/2014!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 15!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 5!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Towards!the!end!of!the!fall!initiation!quarter,!candidates!were!invited!to!a!meeting!where!they!could!learn! about! the! various! officer! positions! in! our! chapter,!why! being! an! officer! in! our! chapter! is! so!much! fun,! and! a! bit! more! about! how! our! officer! board! functions.! ! The! candidates! also! had! the!opportunity!to!ask!questions!and!talk!to!the!current!officers!in!the!positions!they!were!interested!in.!!!


This! meeting! encouraged! candidates! to! run! for! officer! positions,! and! helped! ensure! that! the!candidates! knew! what! would! be! expected! of! them! as! officers.! ! As! college! organizations! are!constantly!in!flux!as!members!join!and!leave!and!graduate,!bringing!in!new!and!dedicated!officers!is!extremely!important.!!


The!executive!board!prepared!a!PowerPoint!presentation.!!All!officers!and!candidates!who!attended!dedicated!an!hour!of!their!time.!!


Not!all!officers!or!candidates!were!able!to!attend,!and!candidate!turnout!was!lower!than!expected.!!The! PowerPoint! presentation,! as!well! as! the! officer! application,!was! sent! out! afterward! for! those!who!were!unable!to!attend.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

This!meeting!was!fairly!successful.!!Although!not!as!many!candidates!as!expected!actually!attended,!the!meeting!was!useful!for!the!candidates!who!did!show!up.!!!

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9.3 !Fall!Officer!Transition!Meeting!Project!Date:! 12/11/2014!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 40!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


In!order!to!prepare!the!officer!board!newly!elected!after! fall! initiation,!a!meeting!was!held!so!that!outgoing!officers!could!notify!the!incoming!officers!of!their!responsibilities,!and!how!improvements!could!be!made!for!the!upcoming!quarters.! ! In!addition,!they!were!notified!about!basic! information!like!email!aliases!and!meeting!times.!!!


All!officers!are!expected!to!help!with!ensuring!the!objectives!of!TBP!are!met!through!holding!events!and!initiating!new!members.!!This!meeting!clearly!outlines!the!responsibilities!of!all!officers!so!that!the!expectations!are!met!more!efficiently.!!


The!executive!board!created!a!PowerPoint!presentation.!!All!officers!dedicated!an!hour!of!their!time.!!


None.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

This! meeting! was! successful,! and! especially! helpful! for! ensuring! continuity! among! the! officer!positions!and!therefore!sustained!success!of!our!chapter.!

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9.4 !Winter!Quarter!Officer!Meetings!!Project!Date:! 1/5/201513/9/2015!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 35!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Officer!meetings! occurred! every!Monday! throughout! winter! quarter.! ! These!meetings! helped! the!board! plan! for! the! events! during! winter! quarter! as! well! as! begin! planning! for! events! during! the!spring.!!Since!winter!is!not!an!initiation!quarter,!officers!could!focus!on!preparing!for!and!improving!spring!initiation,!and!we!spent!a!good!amount!of!time!debating!and!discussing!how!to!implement!a!new!initiation!requirements!system.!


Officer!meetings! during!winter! quarter! serve! to! help! the! officer! board! plan! for! events! as! well! as!begin!making!any!changes!to!the!initiation!process.!!


The!president!needed!to!make!the!agendas!and!run!the!meeting.!!


Some! officers! could! not! attend! due! to! class! or! other! conflicts.! ! Meeting! minutes! were! sent! out!afterward!to!ensure!that!everyone!stayed!informed.!


These! officer! meetings! helped! us! to! plan! many! exciting! events! during! winter! quarter! as! well! as!prepare!for!spring!initiation.!

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9.5 !Spring!Quarter!Officer!Meetings!!Project!Date:! 3/30/201516/1/2015!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 35!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Spring! quarter! officer! meetings! occurred! every! week! and! served! to! help! the! board! plan! for! the!multitude!of!events!hosted!during!spring!for!the!UCLA!community!as!well!as!for!our!spring!initiation.!


These!meetings! served! to! ensure! that! all! officers!were! on! the! same! page! about! every! event! and!enabled!us!to!have!a!successful!spring!quarter!and!initiation.!!


The!president!needed!to!create!the!meeting!agenda!as!well!as!run!the!meetings.!!


As!always,!some!officers!could!not!attend!due!to!class!or!other!conflicts.!!Meeting!minutes!were!sent!out!after!each!meeting!to!ensure!that!everyone!stayed!informed.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

These!meetings!helped!us!to!have!a!successful!spring!quarter!and!spring!initiation.!!There!were!two!weeks!where!officer!meeting!was!primarily!dedicated!to!presidential!and!vice!presidential!elections.!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

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9.6 !Spring!Officer!Informational!Meeting!Project!Date:! 5/21/2015!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 28!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 10!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


Towards!the!end!of! the!spring! initiation!quarter,!candidates!were! invited!to!a!meeting!where!they!could!learn!about!the!various!officer!positions!in!our!chapter,!why!being!an!officer!in!our!chapter!is!so!much! fun,!and!a!bit!more!about!how!our!officer!board! functions.! ! The!candidates!also!had! the!opportunity!to!ask!questions!and!talk!to!the!current!officers!in!the!positions!they!were!interested!in.!!!


This! meeting! encouraged! candidates! to! run! for! officer! positions,! and! helped! ensure! that! the!candidates! knew! what! would! be! expected! of! them! as! officers.! ! As! college! organizations! are!constantly!in!flux!as!members!join!and!leave!and!graduate,!bringing!in!new!and!dedicated!officers!is!extremely!important.!!


The!executive!board!prepared!a!PowerPoint!presentation.!!All!officers!and!candidates!who!attended!dedicated!an!hour!of!their!time.!!


Not! all! officers! or! candidates! were! able! to! attend.! ! The! PowerPoint! presentation,! as! well! as! the!officer!application,!was!sent!out!afterward!for!those!who!were!unable!to!attend.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

This!meeting!was!successful.!!More!candidates!than!expected!attended,!and!the!meeting!was!useful!for!all!the!candidates!who!showed!up.!!!!!!!!

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9.7 !Spring!Officer!Transition!Meeting!!

Project!Date:! 6/5/2015!Project!Area:! TBP!Tutoring!Room!No.!of!Participating!Members:! 38!No.!of!Participating!Electees:! 0!No.!of!Participating!Mentees:! 0!Hours!spent!planning!(total):! 1!Hours!spent!participating!(per!person):! 1!In!Conjunction!with!another!group:! N/A!


In!order!to!prepare!the!officer!board!newly!elected!after!spring!initiation,!a!meeting!was!held!so!that!outgoing!officers!could!notify!the!incoming!officers!of!their!responsibilities,!and!how!improvements!could!be!made!for!the!upcoming!quarters.! ! In!addition,!they!were!notified!about!basic! information!like!email!aliases!and!meeting!times.!!!


All!officers!are!expected!to!help!with!ensuring!the!objectives!of!TBP!are!met!through!holding!events!and!initiating!new!members.!!This!meeting!clearly!outlines!the!responsibilities!of!all!officers!so!that!the!expectations!are!met!more!efficiently.!!


The!executive!board!created!a!PowerPoint!presentation.!!All!officers!dedicated!an!hour!of!their!time.!!


The!president1elect!had!some!difficulty!getting!the!projector!to!work!with!his!laptop!so!the!beginning!of!the!meeting!was!delayed!slightly.!!Otherwise!everything!went!smoothly.!!

V. OVERALL!RESULTS!

This! meeting! was! successful,! and! especially! helpful! for! ensuring! continuity! among! the! officer!positions!and!therefore!sustained!success!of!our!chapter.!

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9.8 !Sample!Meeting!Minutes!!

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Tau Beta Pi The National Engineering Honor Society

California Epsilon – University of California, Los Angeles. Est. 1952 Office: Boelter Hall 6266K. [email protected] http://tbp.seas.ucla.edu

April 20th, 2015 Spring 2015 Week 4 Meeting Absent: Hannah Jin, YingJia Lee, Helia Ng, Heather Blockhus, Charles Sheung, DiChen Yin, Ray Cothern, George Wang, Anderson Huang, Jing Gong, Ren Odion, Tuan Trinh, Kimberly Chyu, Victor Yu, Zachary McFann (ASCE), Michael Sweatt (UPE), Steven Ni (AIAA), Nero Geng (HKN), Tien Le (IEEE), Aal Patankar (iGEM)

I. Pre-announcement: VP Elections

II. Past Events: Project Report: a. Meet and Greet

i. Went well, speed dating format was much better than previous meet and greets ii. When switching, make the candidates move instead of the officers iii. Officers got to meet most of the candidates instead of just one or two iv. More candidates than expected seemed interested in officer positions

b. Officer Mentoring hours i. Is anyone actually mentoring and having conversations with the candidates? ii. If they are tutoring, let them tutor. But also try and talk to them for a few minutes at the

beginning or the end to make sure they’re on top of things and know what events are coming up

iii. If you have any ideas on how to make it so that it’s not just officers sitting there at the same time as candidates, please let us know

c. District Conference i. It was a really long day ii. We won $200 by presenting on RG iii. Alumni event – need ideas on how to get people interested in the idea of talking to alumni.

All of the alumni had interesting stories and it was good to listen to and learn from them iv. We’re hosting Fall 2015 conference – Saturday of 1st week

III. Upcoming Events and Announcements a. House Socials

i. Pi dinner on Friday – pizza at 800 degrees ii. Epsilon hiking on Sunday

1. Get details figured out – how many people going, where to meet or where to pick people up

b. Website Update i. House leaders can’t see which candidates are in their house on the website, need access in

Admin to Main->Profiles ii. Email Ray to ask him to change permissions/add access iii. Event tracking is different now due to the requirement system change

1. In Admin (click on ‘Admin’), can add new requirement with a name, point value, and section (ex: social, service)

2. In the Admin dropdown menu (mouse over ‘Admin’), go to ‘Requirement Attendance’ and check the boxes to sign people into the right/newly created requirement

3. DAs can be signed in too iv. It is especially important to keep track of DA attendance this quarter because there are

some DAs who will only be eligible to buy stoles/graduation regalia if they complete the DA program this quarter

c. Community Service Update i. They got responses from Benson/Battlebots, Seismic Outreach, and EMCC ii. Meeting tomorrow to get a date and book rooms iii. Need a date by the end of this week in order to let candidates and officers know in

advance, since we will need them to help out on the day of the event d. Grad School Night Update

i. Currently only have 1 RSVP

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ii. Need to chalk and flyer more starting next week e. Club Liaison updates:

i. AIChE is having Western Regional Conference soon ii. To support LGBT, AIChE will have free boba on Friday, 11am – while supplies last, in Bruin

Plaza iii. HKN’s Electrical Engineering Graduate Panel is on April 23rd, 6-7pm in Maxwell Room (Engr

IV 57-124)

IV. Reminders and Useful Links a. The Spring Quarter Events Calendar is HERE b. The tutoring room calendar is HERE c. Need a reimbursement? Please fill out this form d. Every officer’s email and number is HERE. Aliases are HERE e. The officer wiki is HERE f. The project report template is HERE (at the bottom)

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9.9 !Sample!Dean’s!Letter!to!Parents!!

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September 8, 2014 Dear Parents:

Congratulations on your son or daughter’s invitation to join Tau Beta Pi. This is a very important recognition of his or her accomplishments as a student in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. On behalf of all the members of the faculty, I extend to you and your student my sincere congratulations.

Tau Beta Pi is the second oldest Greek-letter honor society in America; the oldest is Phi Beta Kappa. Both societies are well known and respected throughout the United States. The latter is restricted to students in the liberal arts, while Tau Beta Pi is designed to “offer appropriate recognition for superior scholarship and exemplary character to students in engineering.” To qualify scholastically, your son/daughter ranked amongst the top eighth of the junior class or the top fifth of the senior class of engineering students.

Since 1952, the California Epsilon Chapter of Tau Beta Pi has been one of the major student organizations at UCLA. Today, it is also a major chapter in the United States in both student and alumnus membership. The chapter is not only an honor society to pay tribute to outstanding students; it also provides a vehicle for such students to assume a role of leadership in the college and to be of distinctive service. Tau Beta Pi members are active in creating numerous engineering student projects, competitions, and mentorship programs. It is one of the most prestigious engineering societies to which one can be elected as an undergraduate. Enclosed is an introductory brochure that further explains the lifelong benefits of membership in Tau Beta Pi.

Orientation meetings for those scholastically eligible to join Tau Beta Pi will be held on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 and Wednesday, October 8, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. in the Boelter Penthouse (8500 Boelter Hall – accessible by the Northeast Elevator). Attendance at one of these meetings is absolutely necessary for those who wish to join and an online RSVP is required at http://bit.ly/tbp_f14_rsvp. I am writing this to you because address changes always seem to result in a few eligible students not being contacted in time. If you think your student’s invitation might not have reached him or her, please have them contact [email protected].

In order to support the operation of the local chapter and the national organization, California Epsilon must charge an initiation fee of $100. As a member myself, I heartily endorse membership in Tau Beta Pi, and I hope your child will give this invitation very serious consideration; the returns on the initiation fee should be more than worthwhile.

Sincerely,

Vijay K. Dhir Distinguished Professor and Dean

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9.10 !Sample!Candidate!Requirements!Packet!

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CANDIDATE REQUIREMENT SHEET – Spring 2015 Candidate Requirements:

Core Requirements (All): Bent Polish, Candidate Quiz + Fee, Engineering Futures, Resume, Initiation

Weekly Volunteering (Choose 1): EMCC, Academic Outreach, Tutoring

Event Requirements:

Social (20 pts required) Chapter Events (30 pts required) Service (20 pts required)

Candidate Sorting (20) Socials (10 each) BBQ (10) Signature Project (10)

Meet & Greet (20) Professor Interview (10) Officer Interviews (10) Grad School Night (10) Cardboard Boat Race (10)

Eye on Engineering (20) Exploring Engineering (20) Academic Outreach (20) EMCC (20) Tutoring (2/hr)

Plus: PICK 30 POINTS FROM ANY CATEGORY

Sample Quarter Plan

Weeks 3-9 Academic Outreach Week 2 Candidate Sorting Week 3 Meet and Greet Week 4 BBQ Week 5 Bent Polish Week 6 Engineering Futures, Resume Due Week 7 Candidate Quiz, Grad School Night Week 8 EYE on Engineering, Cardboard Boat Race Week 9 Social Week 10 Initiation and Banquet

Core Requirements:

1. Weekly Volunteering Options • Fill out the online form declaring your track by Sunday after week 1. • Tutoring:

i. Tutoring begins Monday of Week 3 in the TBP tutoring room (Boelter 6266) and ends Friday of Week 9. Arrive at your scheduled time, sign in, and wait for tutees to drop by. Repeatedly failing to fill out the sign in sheet correctly will result in a strike.

ii. Please notify tutoring chairs George or Alex ([email protected]) about any tutoring sessions you cannot make. Makeup tutoring will be scheduled accordingly.

• Academic Outreach: i. Throughout the quarter, Academic Outreach volunteers will help lead four review sessions

on the hill for either Chem 30A or Physics 1B.

ii. We can accept only a limited number of volunteers to this program. Contact Helia and Robby ([email protected]) with any questions.

• EMCC: i. Weekly workshops for Norra Sterry Elementary School students which include fun STEM

based experiments. ii. Sessions are tentatively from 2:30-4:30pm on Thursdays from Weeks 3 to 9. Contact

Heather and Charles ([email protected]) with any questions.

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2. Bent Polish

• Honor the Tau Beta Pi symbol by spending 30 min polishing the large bent in front of Boelter. • Bent Polish will be Monday and Tuesday of Week 5, and Wednesday and Thursday of Week 6.

3. Resume Submission • Submit your resume online at our Tau Beta Pi chapter’s website (http://tbp.seas.ucla.edu). • Your resume, due Friday of Week 6, will be distributed to companies.

4. Engineering Futures • Engineering Futures is a workshop paid for by Nationals that focuses on developing

interpersonal skills. Sessions cover people skills, team chartering, or problem solving. • Engineering Futures will be held the morning of May 9th. If you absolutely CANNOT make this,

please email [email protected] as soon as possible.

5. Candidate Quiz • During Week 7, take and pass a quiz about TBP. • The quiz will cover information from the Tau Beta Pi Information Book found in the TBP Tutoring

Room, as well as information from our Chapter website at http://tbp.seas.ucla.edu.

6. Initiation Fee • The lifetime membership fee is $100. Please make checks out to “Tau Beta Pi.” • Initiation fee covers national and chapter dues, a personalized engraved golden bent, a

certificate, a Tau Beta Pi T-shirt, a subscription to “The Bent” magazine, and dinner during the initiation banquet.

• Check or cash will be collected during your Candidate Quiz.

7. Attend the Initiation Ceremony and Banquet • To initiate, you MUST attend the initiation ceremony on Tuesday (6/2) of Week 10. • After initiation, we will hold officer elections for the next term and celebrate with a banquet.

Other TBP Events:

8. Candidate Sorting • Get to know your house and compete against other houses in a scavenger hunt. • The Candidate Sorting will take place on Thursday, April 9, from 6-8pm at the TBP Bent in front

of Boelter Hall.

9. Candidate Meet and Greet • Have the chance to talk one-on-one with TBP officers. These conversations are a great

opportunity for us to get to know you better, and for you to ask any questions you have about TBP or the initiation process.

• Sign up for time slot via email. Dress is business casual.

10. Signature Project • Collect and creatively display the signatures of: 10 candidates, 10 officers, and 2 faculty

members of TBP (list at http://tbp.seas.ucla.edu). • Obtain each person’s Name, Major, Year of Initiation, Position, and Signature. • Submit your Signature Project during your Candidate Quiz.

11. Professor Interview • Interview a professor, preferably in engineering, and submit a one page, double-spaced paper

about him/her online at the Tau Beta Pi website by Friday of Week 6.

12. Officer Interviews • Interview TWO officers and submit a one page, double-spaced paper about each person online

at the Tau Beta Pi website by Friday of Week 6.

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In summary, the candidate process is not meant to be a burden on you, but rather, a means for us to

determine that you have the exemplary character required of all members of Tau Beta Pi. It also allows us to introduce you to the programs and events that TBP has to offer. If you have any questions or concerns about the initiation process, email Rachel Fang, the TBP President, at [email protected]. Policies: You will be allowed three strikes during this process. More than three strikes will result in an immediate removal of eligibility for this quarter. Strikes will be awarded when a candidate misses an event and does not notify any officer BEFORE the event. You must sign in to all events to receive credit for those that you attend. Tentative Calendar of Requirements The event details for these and other events or deadlines will be sent out via email weekly as they approach.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Week 1 Orientation Orientation

Week 2 Deadline to Declare Candidacy

Candidate Sorting

Week 3 Tutoring Begins Meet & Greet Meet & Greet

Week 4 BBQ

Week 5 Bent Polish Bent Polish

Week 6 Bent Polish Bent Polish Resume Due Engineering Futures

Week 7 Candidate

Quiz Candidate

Quiz Grad School

Night Cardboard Boat Race

Week 8

Week 9 Last day of

tutoring

Week 10 Initiation

and Banquet

TBP CAE WEBSITE Project Report by Ray Cothern - Webmaster

INTRODUCTION The website is an integral part of our chapter’s presence at UCLA, not only by serving as the portal for candidate initiation requirements, but also as the online persona for the chapter. It is important to keep the website's design appealing and functional for our members and visitors. To further these goals, I decided to make several major changes to the engineering of the website, in order to increase the flexibility that candidates possess during initiation. From observations in previous quarters, we found that candidates felt that they did not have enough choice in the initiation process.

PEER TEACHING OBJECTS Our first attempt to address the issue was to modify the nature of initiation such that a candidate could choose to either Tutor every week (weeks 3-9), or attend several sessions of Academic Outreach. This change required some restructuring on the website side. Though adding the binary choice of Academic Outreach or Tutoring would not in it of itself have been difficult, the choice was made to spend extra effort and create a new encapsulating object in the website that would be able to specify precisely what a candidates “Service” requirement was and whether they had completed or not. I called this new object Peer Teaching.

Peer Teaching Objects Instead of possessing a Tutoring object directly as they have in the past, Candidate objects now possess Peer Teaching objects, which in turn possess Tutoring objects, as well as the knowledge of whether Tutoring is actually the desired requirement or not for that particular object.

This allowed separation of concerns, permitting Candidate objects to no longer need to worry about the specifics of what particular requirement it had.

In addition, the Peer Teaching object approach paved way for any later expansion we wished in terms of adding further options for Candidates to replace Tutoring with. This fact proved crucial during Spring 2015 quarter, when we made highly in depth changes to the initiation process

INITIATION: THE REQUIREMENTS OVERHAUL In Spring 2015 we as a chapter decided to make a suite of changes, as we felt that still we were not promoting freedom in the initiation process thoroughly enough. We adopted a point system, whereby candidates were required to obtain a certain number of points by attending events or completing requirements from four categories: Social, Professional, Service, and Elective (This last category could be fulfilled from excess points in any of the other three categories). From the perspective of the website, these changes required extensive changes, as our initiation process had been represented as a series of misc. requirements kept track of by Candidate objects. With this change, I implemented a great deal more structure. We grouped several important requirements into a Core Requirement category. I then added an additional object that was to replace our old Event objects, and contain the capability to fulfill point categories. I termed this new object the Requirement object.

Requirement Objects Instead of logging candidate attended events in the form of Event objects, we now log them through Requirement objects. Due to some poor decisions in the design of Event objects, we decided to leave them behind for this new system.

In addition the capability of logging points with the new Initiation System, the Requirement system has the

benefit of a more logically structured relationship with Candidates or Active Members who have participated in the Requirement. It also has more flexibility, as it can address candidate requisites that are not events, such as Professor Interviews, or Tutoring. Thus, simply adding a point value and category to the Event system would not have sufficed for this change.

Thus, the new Candidate’s model for Initiation consists of five Core Requirements and multiple other Requirement objects that together fulfill the 4 point categories.

FRONT END REDESIGN

The new point system required broad changes to much of our front end as well. Several pages needed in depth changes, such as Candidate profile pages and our administrative Candidate tracking page. Below is a comparison of front end for the Candidate tracking page, as this page required the most extensive changes

Before:

As you can see, the old system relied on misc. requirements that were denoted as complete or incomplete by check marks in a tabular format. With the new system, this information needed to presented in a more organized layout. This previous front end also did not allow officers to drill into what in particular was satisfying variable requirements such as “Social Event.”

After:

As you can see, one of the big focuses I had with this redesign was to allow officers to get a high level overview of how candidates were doing overall, while still permitting them to drill into particular candidates and their requirements for greater detail on their particular statuses. Expandable dropdowns containing the information of the point categories of the candidate are contained within each outer candidate dropdown, as seen above with test candidates.

FUTURE GOALS: There are still several features to be added to mesh with the new point system. House points are currently incompatible with the new Requirements, and still operate based on events. Further discussion will need to be held to determine what Requirements will provide certain quantities of House Points. Additionally, we are still in the process of attempting to move away from our officers having to use the Django Admin console (the first two pictures in this report are of that interface) as we have had issues with our officers not understanding how to use it correctly. Thus there are still several front end pages that need to be added to accomplish what the admin console does in a more customized and slightly more non computer science-y manner.

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10. Closing!Remarks!

From%the%incoming%President%of%California%Epsilon:%

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To!Whom!It!May!Concern,!!

Thank!you!for!taking!the!time!to!review!this!year’s!Chapter!Report.!Over!this!past!year,!the!California!Epsilon!chapter!has!continued!to!commit!to!excellence!both!in!academics!and!in!our!presence!on!campus.!We!have!not!only!built!upon!our!past!successes! in!our!outreach!to!our!community!and!the!quality!of! the!events!we!hold,!but!have!maintained!a!solid!foundation!for!even!greater!progress!in!futures!years!to!come.!I!hope!that!this!year’s!report!reflects!that,!and!that!you!have!enjoyed!sharing!in!our!accomplishments.!!

I! find!myself! incredibly!proud!of!our!chapter!this!past!year!and!lucky!to!have!contributed!to!and!witnessed!this! growth.! I! only! hope! to! realize! our! potential! in! the! upcoming! year! and! continue! to! build! for! a! legacy!beyond!that.!!

Sincerely,!

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Nikhil!Patel!President,!201512016!UCLA!–!CA!Epsilon!!

Documents

2014-2015 TBP CAE Project ReportsEPSILON! 201412015!Chapter!Report! University!of!California,!Los!Angeles! Henry!Samueli!School!of!Engineering!and!Applied!Sciences!!!!!