Thursday, September 13, 2007

Meeting Minutes 9/12/07

Meeting Minutes
Neuroengineering Training Grant
9/12/07

Attendance: Nasir Bhanpuri, Andrew Cassidy, Gabriel Colon, Luke Johnson, Issel Lim, Christopher Smith, Aaron Wong

Fall Symposium Part 2
Following the great success of the Fall Symposium featuring clinical faculty organized by L. Johnson, a second symposium proposed to feature those researchers who work in the Mind-Brain Institute. It has remained unclear whether such a seminar would be useful to first year students.

Poster for BME Retreat
A second edition of the poster featuring NETI has been designed by N. Bhanpuri and I. Lim for presenting at the BME retreat this upcoming weekend. However, due to time constraints, it was decided to not have the poster printed out in full form but to instead give out handouts of the poster to interested students. During the poster session, inquiries will be made of interested students as to whether an MBI symposium would be helpful and to ensure that they are on the Neuroengineering mailing list.

Elections
Elections for new officers will be held off until new members have been selected.

Scholarship Essay Contest
N. Bhanpuri has created a final draft of the scholarship essay contest form. Distribution so far has not been very successful, so the contest has been opened up to all interested students in the state of Maryland. Alternative methods of distribution will also be considered, including posting the application on Fastweb.

Website
A. Cassidy intends to update student pages with a list of courses taken or currently taking, as well as some information from the NETI poster and any other information individuals desire to update. S. Hosmane’s information is to be added to the website. The professor pages are also to be updated, as well as the information page regarding the Fall Symposium.

Other Members
A question has arisen regarding the extent of inclusion of individuals interested in Neuroengineering but not presently on the grant. In particular, this is regarding participation in meetings and being added to the Neuroengineering (1) Google group. N. Thakor will be asked for his input prior to making a final decision.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home