Minutes of the Team Mentors' Meeting on 1 April 1999
Place:  ECE 308
Meeting started shortly after 3:30 PM
Present: Alberding, Hsieh, Lewicki, Schooley, Tharp, and Wing 
Absent: Bahill, Carothers, Chen, and Fink 


1. Brief reports:

a. Schooley and Reagan will attend the IEEE session tonight and touch base with 
Ron Jost of ESP.
b. Lewicki will get Rep. Kolbe's signature on the endorsement.
c. Hsieh reported that letters were sent this morning to 17 potential summer 
employers.  He will check on the availability of UA dorms for the summer months 
after receiving reports from the TLs on the number of students desiring such 
accommodation. 

2. Financial report: Hsieh showed the one-page summary he prepared for Dean 
Levy.  Suggestions were made to incorporate gifts in-kind.  Schooley will 
provide the UA form for donations.  Donations received from firms such as Burr-
Brown, Intel, and International Telemetering, etc. should be recorded and 
acknowledged.  Hsieh will send the revised version of summary to all TMs for 
improvement before sending it out to all supporters.
   
3. Proposal activities:
a. Hsieh reported that letters to raise funds and scholarships are in 
preparation.
b. Wing pointed out the need to submit more proposals.
c. Lewicki will contact the teams that received funds from Fink's Research Corp. 
grant to help Fink in completing a report to RC.  Hsieh suggested that a photo 
of MSA's mockup of UASat should be a part of the report.
d. Wing spoke on the post-submission tasks need to be done on the DoEd proposal:

	i. 	Wing will seek clarification on human subject regulations.
	ii. 	Hsieh will notify the three consultants mentioned in the proposal.
	iii. 	Wing will send an addendum, including missing CVs, to DoEd.
	iv. 	Wing asked all TMs to read the proposal to report on all errors.
	v. 	Wing pointed out the faculty compensation needs to be corrected.

e. Wing suggested a proposal for a Hewlett Packer equipment grant be the next. 
We should aim for the 1 October 1999 deadline.  Prior to that, a HP contact 
person has to be found.  Lewicki and Schooley will check with AME and ECE, 
respectively, since both departments have received sizable grants from HP.

f.  Dave Schaenman will be instructed to rework on the NASA proposal.  Chris 
will provide the latest NASA AO on Earth sciences.

4. Ground station: Schooley reported that he should able to handle the 
installation of a data line with existing CoEM funds.  He will also verify that 
the funds still available to SSP.

5. Academic credit: The benefit academic credits to the students, mentors and 
SSP is recognized.  Wing explained the present university policy.  He and 
Schooley will explore the best avenues to make it workable for SSP students and 
mentors.  It is hope that such avenues can be found and announced before the end 
of this semester, so students can plan for the fall semester.  

6. Alberding's report:  
a. Bahill of SIE has agreed to be the SI TM.  The search for a TL is on.
b. Bickel has agreed to give another session of machine-shop certification.  A 
letter of thanks is called for.  Hsieh will draft it.  

7. Lewicki's report:
a. Space Grant annual report submitted to Brew.
b. Search for Ibbotson's replacement is on.
c. Newsletter should be done by next week.

Meeting adjourned shortly after 17:25.

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