Minutes of Student Activity
Committee 2009 Meeting (May 31th, 2009) - TOP -
By
Lu Liu
Attendees
(alphabetically by family name): Xiguang Chen,
Jing Gan, Li Guo, Lu Liu,
Xuyong Tu, Jiele Xu, Wei Zhang (Chair)
Date:
Sunday, May 31th, 2009.
Time:
9:00pm-10:07pm (CST)
Proposed
Agenda: 1) SAC chair election; 2) Student activities in the ASABE
Annual
International Meeting (AIM).
1.
SAC chair election
All
members who attended the meeting agreed on Xiguang Chen as the SAC chair for 2009-2010. Wei Zhang,
Xuyong Tu,
Li Guo, and Jihong Yang will leave SAC, and the other current members
will
continue serving in the SAC. We will recruit some new members at the
ASABE
meeting.
2.
Student activities in the ASABE Annual International Meeting (AIM)
Transportation to AOC student banquet
(Tuesday) was discussed.
The board agreed to clearly indicate the transportation methods (e.g.
public
transportation and taxi) to the restaurant on the poster. Also, the
other
alternative was suggested to meet a convenient location near the
conference
center and hopefully students can be transported by the available
vehicles. The
SAC will also look for advices on the issue from the AOC board.
The
board discussed the games in the student gathering. Each board member
should
propose a game and submit to Wei Zhang by Wednesday (June 3rd).
And
the game sequence and details will be finalized prior to the meeting
through
email correspondence by the SAC board members. Jiele Xu and Lu Liu
agreed to
serve as the major hosts.
The
board also discussed the scheduling and assignments on the T-shirt
fundraising
sale before AOC business meeting on Monday afternoon. Members should
meet at
4:30 to pick up T-shirts from Xiguang.
Minutes of
Student Activity Committee 2009 Meeting (April 4th, 2009) -
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By
Xuyong Tu
Attendees (alphabetically
by family name): Xiguang Chen, Li Guo, Xuyong Tu, Jihong Yang, Wei
Zhang
(Chair)
Date: Saturday,
April 4th, 2009.
Time: 1:00pm-2:15pm
(CST)
Proposed
Agenda: 1) Survey on Chinese graduate students in the States;
2) SAC
chair candidacy discussion; 3) Student activities in the ASABE Annual
International Meeting (AIM).
1. Survey on Chinese graduate students in the
States
The survey will help SAC
better distribute student event information to graduate students. All SAC board members should handle in the
survey as soon as possible, not later than the next board meeting in
the late
May. This information is important to
inform
the student attendees in the ASABE AIM about the student activities
such as
student banquet, T-shirt sale fund raising, etc.
2. SAC chair
candidacy
The SAC chair for
2009-2010 needs to be elected before the ASABE Annual International
Meeting
(June 21 to 24, Reno,
Nevada). The new chair will need to be able to serve
the one-year term and have a
high possibility to attend the 2010 ASABE AIM. The
board agreed that the chair will be elected from the current board
members so that the person has the necessary experience to lead the
SAC. Wei Zhang, Xuyong Tu, Li Guo, and
Jihong Yang
are graduating and will not be able to serve the next term. Xiguang Chen agreed to be one of the
candidates for the new chair. If any other current board members are
interested, please inform Wei Zhang by May 22, 2009. The new chair will
be
elected during the next board meeting around May 30th, 2009.
3. Student
activities in the ASABE AIM
The student banquet will
be held either on Monday (June 22, 2009) or Tuesday (June 23, 2009),
depending
on the date of AOC award banquet. It is
expected that the banquet will have approximately 100 guests. The
budget will
be discussed during the next AOC board meeting. Xiguang Chen will be in
charge
of reserving the restaurant.
Two
boxes of AOC T-shirts will be shipped to
Xiguang Chen by Wei Zhang before the conference and then transported to
Reno
by Xiguang. Guo Li and Jihong Yang will
help on the
T-shirt sale in the conference.
The board also
discussed the possibility to obtain the Chinese attendee list in the
ASABE AIM
so that the events that are of interest for the Chinese attendees can
be better
distributed. Flyers and message board
posting will also be utilized. Further
scheduling and details will be discussed during next board meeting.
Minutes of
Student Activity Committee 2008 Meeting (Nov. 8th, 2008) -
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By Jing
Gan
Attendees (alphabetically by
family name): Xiguang Chen,
Jing Gan, Li Guo, Jihong Yang, Wei Zhang (Chair)
Date: Saturday, November 8th,
2008.
Time: 1:00pm-2:15pm (CST)
Proposed Agenda: 1) Wei Zhang
reported recent AOC
activities; 2) Discussed SAC survey letter; 3) Mentor program issues;
4) Next
meeting.
1. AOC Activities
Wei Zhang reported
current AOC activities including: 1) Association of Overseas Chinese
Agricultural, Biological and Food Engineers (AOCABFE) and Chinese
Society of
Agricultural Engineering (CSAE) sponsor a new international
peer-reviewed open
access journal entitled International Journal of Agricultural and
Biological
Engineering (IJABE). This new journal is calling for papers. Welcome to
submit
your manuscripts. 2) AOC is planning to set up new awards for faculties
and
students.
2. SAC survey letter
The board members discussed the survey letter
written by Wei Zhang. AOC and
SAC were introduced at the beginning of the letter. Then, the purpose
of the
survey and information we need were explained. The information includes
name,
institution, email address and study area. The board members approved
this
letter. Li Guo suggested designing an Excel form to collect
information. Wei
Zhang will improve the letter and information form.
3. Mentor
program issues
Wei Zhang proposed to conduct a mentor program to
help the prospective
students from China
to
prepare application materials, and help the graduating students
studying in North America to look for
jobs. All board members agreed
with this significant program. Wei Zhang will discuss this program with
AOC
board members in next AOC board meeting. Then, we will call for student
and
professional volunteers to participate in the program.
4. Next Meeting
Next meeting will be around the middle of
December. Wei Zhang will inform
all board members the date of the upcoming meeting.
Minutes of
Student Activity Committee 2008 Meeting (Aug. 7th, 2008) -
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By Wei Zhang
Attendees (alphabetically
by family
name): Xiguang Chen, Lu Liu, Jing Gan, Li Guo, Xuyong Tu, Jiele Xu, Wei
Zhang
Date: Thursday,
August 07, 2008.
Time: 11:00pm-12:25
pm (CST)
1.
Self-introduction
The meeting started
with a self-introduction by
each of the board member. Three
committee members (Kun Liu, Xuyong Tu, Wei Zhang) from the 2007-2008
committee
continue to serve in the present 2008-2009 committee.
The committee has four new members to come
in. Xiguang Chen is a MS candidate in University of California
at Davis
and
will continue on to his PhD study. Lu
Liu is a PhD student in University
of Tennessee at Knoxville. Li Guo and Jing Gan are both PhD students at Kansas State University.
2.
Briefing 2008 ASABE Annual International
Meeting
Wei Zhang reported to
the committee on the 2008
ASABE Annual International Meeting at Providence,
Rhode
Island. Approximately 78 attendees joined together for
the AOC Student
Banquet. From the entries on the student
register forms, 33 attendees were students, and 26 faculty or company
employees. The rest were probably
attendee’s spouse and friends. During
the banquet, Mr. Fanglin Ai from the China’s
Consulate in New York and Dr. Ruixiu
Xu from Texas
A&M University each delivered
a talk to the students. The funding
raising event, T-shirt sales, sold 15 T-shirts in total and there are
123
T-shirts left and stored in Wei Zhang’s place.
The China Exchange Session, moderated by Dr.
Zhongli Pan from UC Davis and
Ryan Woolbright from Oklahoma
State University,
drew a large audience. Xiguang Chen
briefed to the committee on the AOC business banquet.
3.
SAC future activities
The board members
discussed the SAC’s future
activities. As advised by Dr. Naiqian
Zhang, Wei Zhang proposed to conduct a survey on the students studying
at the
major universities in the North America
to
facilitate the exchange and communication of fellow students. The board members agreed with this proposal
and Lu Liu is going to assign the responsible survey areas for each
board
member. The survey will be finished by
the end of December, 2008. The board
members also agreed to maintain and promote the SAC student BBS website. Wei Zhang asked helps from board members to
post the job information and serve as moderators.
Regarding the SAC
activities during the ASABE
annual international meeting, the board members had a great discussion. Jiele Xu suggested that the SAC should
organize more events to facilitate the exchange between the fellow
Chinese
students attending the meeting, except for the student banquet. Lu Liu proposed to have photography
volunteers to take photos for the student presenters.
Jing Gan suggested to divide the email list
by the study fields so that the messages delivered is more relevant to
the
field of receivers. The board members
also discussed the possibility of fund-raising events.
As a student committee overseen by AOC, the
SAC will not have its own treasure. All
its finance affairs are supervised through AOC and the SAC will receive
the
AOC’s guidance and maintain a close cooperation with AOC. The board members acknowledged that the
detailed event plans will be discussed in the future meetings as needed.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2008 Meeting (June 19th, 2008) - TOP -
By Xiao Wu
Attendees (alphabetically by
family name): Jian Jin, Peng Li, Kun Liu, Zhiming Qi(Chair), Xiao Wu,
Wei Zhang
Date: Thursday, June 19th, 2008.
Time: 9:00pm-10:00pm (CST)
Agenda: 1) Zhiming Qi introduced
coming AOC activities; 2) SAC activities arrangement at 2008 ASABE
annual international meeting; 3) 2008-2009 SAC chair election.
1. AOC Activities
1) AOC business meeting will be held at 6pm on
July 1st at ASABE annual meeting in Providence, where AOC activities in
2007-2008 will be reviewed and plans of action for 2008-2009 will be
discussed. 2) AOC dinner banquet will be set right after business
meeting, charge $15 for student and $50 for faculty and others. SAC
board member certificates will be awarded to Jian Jin, Kun Liu, Zhiming
Qi ,Xiao Wu and Peng Li. 3) China Exchange Session at ASABE annual
meeting will provide a forum for sharing visions, experiences, and new
ideas for developing scholarly cooperation activities between the China
and other country in agricultural, biological, and food engineering
area. Zhiming encouraged every student board member to attend these
activities during the meeting period.
2. SAC activities arrangement during ASABE
AIM
1) AOC T-shirt sale: About 140 AOC T-shirts have
been mailed to Wei Zhang, Peng Li and Kun Liu will be in charge of
T-shirt sale at the time of AOC business meeting and student dinner
during ASABE AIM. More SAC members would be encouraged to support
T-shirt sale to earn the cost back and increase SAC funding. 2) Student
gathering dinner: The Student gathering dinner will be held on June
30th, 2008. Each student will pay $5. Wei Zhang will go to the
restaurant in advance to make sure everything is going well and charge
all the affairs on the spot, such as greeting and note-taking for the
presentations. Also he will go check with the restaurant as soon as
possible see if they have got a TV set for Karaoke. Dr. Yang has
invited Mr. Ai Fanglin, the Consul of Education at China Consulate
General in NY, to give a speech at the dinner. An AOC faculty member
will be also invited to give a speech, Peng Li will talk to Dr. Wang
see if she is available otherwise Zhiming will contact Dr. Sui as an
alternative.
3. 2008-2009 SAC chair election
Based on vote and discussion, Wei Zhang was
elected to be the 2008-2009 SAC chair and will take over the position
from 2008 ASABE AIM. This will be announced at the AOC business
meeting. Five SAC board members will leave the board because of
graduation within the year whereas Xuyong Tu will stay. Several board
members are needed and will be selected from student members with new
students preferred.
4. Others
Zhiming, Wei, Peng and Kun will print out some
student gathering dinner flyers for distribution at the registration
site at ASABE AIM.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2008 Meeting (February 28th, 2008) - TOP -
By Peng Li
Attendees (alphabetically by
family name): Peng Li, Zhiming Qi(Chair), Xuyong Tu, , Xiao Wu, Wei
Zhang
Date: Thursday, February 28th,
2008.
Time: 9:00pm-10:10pm (CST)
Proposed Agenda: 1) Zhiming Qi
reported recent AOC activities; 2) Discussed SAC gathering dinner, such
as location, budget and invitation; 3) Student BBS issues.
1. AOC Activities
Zhiming reported current AOC activities including:
1) AOC and the government of Shaanxi province, China, are planning to
setup an international agricultural research institute in Yangling
city. 2) AOC planned to invite four professors from China to present in
China Exchange Session of ASABE annual meeting. 3) The deadline of
paper submission for AOC student paper competition is April 15th,2008.
Zhiming also encouraged each board member to attend this contest. 4)
The deadline of news and other information submissions for the latest
AOC newsletter, IMPACT, is March 15th,2008. 5) AOC and CSAE (Chinese
Society of Agricultural Engineering) are planning to have cooperated
publication. The first issue of this publication is to be published in
July & August, 2008. 6) Each of the former SAC board members will
get a member certification from the AOC.
2. Student Gathering Dinner
It is four months away from 2008 ASABE annual
meeting in Providence. In order to provide a social opportunity for
everyone to get to know each other, SAC will also host a student
gathering dinner as usual. Based on the discussion, the dinner will be
held on June 30th,2008. Wei Zhang will be in charge of restaurant
searching nearby the meeting center. Zhiming will be responsible for
the presenters¡¯ invitation. Zhiming proposed to have a
performance during the dinner. Based on this suggestion, all boards
discussed existing issues like equipments, area and performers. As for
the prize for the performers, All boards agree to take the T-shirt as a
award. The final decision on the performance will be made in next
meeting.
3. BBS Issues
The Student BBS has been set up, however, the
visited times are less. It needs to be publicized widely. Let more
students know this BBS and make good use of this platform. Peng Li will
design the BBS Lego as soon as possible.
4. Others
Zhiming proposed to publish a supplement of
IMPACT, especially for Chinese students in the US. Wei Zhang suggested
to publish one issue tentatively. Xuyong suggested to combine this
issue with BBS somehow. The final decision on creating the supplement
of IMPACT will be made in next meeting.
5. Next Meeting
Next meeting will be around the middle of May.
Zhiming will send an email to specify the date.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2007 Meeting (October 10th, 2007) - TOP -
By Wei Zhang
Attendees (alphabetically by
family name): Jian Jin, Peng Li, Kun Liu, Zhiming Qi(Chair), Xuyong Tu,
, Xiao Wu, Wei Zhang
Date: Thursday, October 10th,
2007.
Time: 9:00pm-10:10pm (CST)
The agenda of this meeting was to discuss the
development of the newly established student electronic forum before
its final launch on the internet.
1. Student BBS comments and suggestions
The board members unanimously approved the overall
design of the BBS and appreciated the effort of Zhiming Qi, which has
made this website possible. The board members also provided many
comments. Jian Jin believed that the BBS should have less content
sections to make the forum more compact and help with the content
providing and easy management. Wei Zhang found that the content
division was appropriate and very field specific. Peng Li thought that
a new SAC logo is needed and will design a new logo. Xiao Wu found that
the title of the forum was limited only to the application topic.
Zhiming Qi brought up the issue about the necessity of an independent
domain name to reflect the genuine student-oriented objectives of this
website and avoid the misconception purely based on its name.
The board members discussed these issues and
arrived with the following decisions. The BBS will be tentatively
divided into Electronics and Machinery, Structural, Environmental and
Soil Water Engineering, and Food and Biological Engineering with
respect to the technical field sections. If the future development
requires more sections, the SAC committee will address the issue
accordingly. The sections such as BBS Issues, Openings, and ABE Student
Life Oversea will be kept intact. An independent domain name will be
applied from a commercial server provider and the BBS will be named as
abfestudent or something alike. Zhiming Qi will be in charge of this
issue.
2. BBS Management and Publicity
The management and publicity of the BBS after its
final launch were also discussed. Zhiming Qi asked every board member
to be involved in the job opening information collection and posting.
The moderator for each section was assigned. Briefly, Jian Jin, Peng Li
and Kun Liu will moderate Electronics and Machinery; Wei Zhang and Xiao
Wu will be assigned to Structural, Environmental and Soil Water
Engineering; Zhiming Qi will oversee BBS Issues and Openings; Xuyong Tu
will manage ABE Student Life Oversea; a moderator for Food and
Biological Engineering will be searched.
For publicity, the target communities are the Chinese student in the
universities in US, the university in China, and also other relevant
BBS. After the BBS’s launch in the internet, Wei Zhang will send
an email to the registered student members of AOCABFE to inform the
establishment of this new website and kindly ask them to spread the
message to the relevant community. Wei Zhang will also post the
information about this website on Taisha, Gter, and his university
mailing list. Other board members are also required to post this
information on their university mailing list or BBS if possible.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2007 Meeting (July 12th, 2007) - TOP -
By Zhiming Qi
Attendees (alphabetically by
family name): Jian Jin, Peng Li, Kun Liu, Zhiming Qi(Chair), Xuyong Tu,
, Xiao Wu, Wei Zhang
Date: Thursday, July 12, 2007.
Time: 9:00pm-10:10pm (CST)
1. Self-introduction
This conference started with a self-introduction
by each of our board member. Xiao Wu, a Ph.D. student at University of
Minnesota, received her B.S. degree from Wuhan University of Science
and Technology. Her research focuses on producing hydrogen gas by hog
manure. Zhiming Qi is a Ph.D. student at Iowa State University, working
at agricultural drainage water quality. He got his B.S. and M.S. from
China Agricultural University. Wei Zhang, originally from Hubei
Province, is a Ph.D. student at Cornell University. His research
project is involved in water quality issue on dairy farms. Before
joining Cornell, he obtained his MS at Okalahoma State University. Kun
Liu, a native of Heilongjiang Province, is studying the effect of
military vehicle on environment in the Ph.D. program of Department of
Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee. Jian
Jin, a Ph.D. student originally from Jiangsu Province, devotes himself
to agricultural machinery and intelligence at Iowa State University.
Peng Li, originally from Inner Mongolia, is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in
agricultural machinery and sensor at Kansas State University. Xuyong
Tu, born in Zhejiang Province, is doing his Ph.D. in agricultural
automatics at Iowa State University.
- Zhang, Wei / Cornell University /
wz47@cornell.edu / 607-206-9690
- Tu, Xuyong / Iowa State University /
tuxuyong@iastate.edu / 515-450-7652
- Wu, Xiao / University of Minnesota /
littlexiao@gmail.com /612-978-9446
- Jin, Jian / Iowa State University /
jinjian@iastate.edu / 515-520-9621
- Liu, Kun / University of Tennessee /
kliu4@utk.edu / 865-964-9893
- Li, Peng / Kansas State University /
lip@ksu.edu / 785-317-5122
- Qi, Zhiming / Iowa State University /
qzhiming@iastate.edu /515-520-9583
2. Photo submission
Before the introduction, every board member was
requested to send his or her picture for upgrading the SAC website.
Everyone will get a chance to record our meeting and write the minutes
in the order of Jian Jin, Wei Zhang, Xiao Wu, Xuyong Tu, Kun Liu, and
Peng Li.
3. Report on previous work
Zhiming reported financial situation and work that
was accomplished in the year of 2006-07. AOC monetarily supported two
SAC events in 2007: $1000 for AOC T-shirt making and approximately $700
for the Gathering Dinner in Minneapolis. The revenue including $565
from T-shirt sale and $230 from SAC membership fee and dinner tickets
for faculty and spouse was submitted to AOC after the events in June,
2007.
Work that was done in 2006-07 includes: 1) A
survey on Chinese students in the department of agricultural
engineering in North America via internet. Around 160 Chinese students
were recorded in 44 universities. 2) A Mailing list through google.com.
3) Making and selling T-shirt. Two hundred T-shirts were made and 57
were sold, one was sent to Dr. Wang as a gift. Currently we have 142
T-shirts left, 16 of which are kept by Peng Li at Kansas State, and the
others are saved by Zhiming Qi at Iowa State. 4) The Gathering Dinner
in Minneapolis. Two plans were proposed but not finished: internet
upgrading and setting up a SAC network in China.
4. Tentative proposal on 2007-08 Session
All board members agreed that a BBS would be
helpful in promoting the communication of SAC members and be beneficial
to agricultural engineering applicants in China. A simple
commercialized BBS downloaded from internet source works fine. Zhiming
will consult a BBS manager then figure out how to set up our BBS. After
the BBS has been set up, each board member is responsible for managing
one section. A bimonthly electronic communication is another item
proposed in the meeting. News, travel journals and the insights and
thoughts are all welcomed to be pulished in PDF format.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2007 Meeting (May 10th, 2007) - TOP -
By Zhiming Qi
Attendees (alphabetically):
Haitao Xiang (chair), Jian Jin, Qi Wang, Shuhui Dun, Yali Zhang,
Zhiming Qi.
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2007.
Time: 9:00pm-10:10pm (CST)
1. AOC T-shirt
Two hundred AOC T-shirts have been produced at the
lowest cost under the coordination of Haitao, 50 in Small size, 100 in
Median and 50 in Large and Extra Large. The total cost is $1092, $5.76
each. They will be arriving at Urbana, IL on next Monday May 14, 2007.
Proposed price is $10 each. Wang Qi accepted the task of shipping them
from Urbana to Minneapolis and will be in charge of selling and
advertising issues at ASABE meeting. We planned to sell the T-shirt on
the afternoon of Monday June 18 when/before China Exchange meeting is
going. Shuhui will be the cashier of the T-shirt business.
If this T-shirt business is profitable, $1000 will
be sent back to AOC to cover the total cost, and the net profit will be
reserved for SAC's future usage.
2. Student Gathering Dinner
It is only five weeks away from 2007 ASABE annual
meeting in Minneapolis. SAC is planning to host a student gathering
dinner to provide a social opportunity to student members to get to
know each other. Based on the discussion, the dinner will be held on
June 19, 2007. Jin Jian and Zhiming will try to find a Chinese
restaurant around the Minneapolis Convention Center ASAP. Haitao
mentioned that there are 12 Chinese restaurants within 1 mile of the
convention center. Jin Jian reported Xiangyuan Restaurant as the best
choice under some research, but the final decision will be made under
the consideration of distance and response from the manager of a
restaurant. Proposed capacity is 30-40 seats.
Haitao will design a flyer to the restaurant.
Zhiming and Yali will form a greeting group at the dinner, and take
care of registration and membership fee, $5 for new SAC members. Dinner
is free for SAC members but faculty members will be charged, depending
on the per capita cost.
Haitao will discuss more about presenter
invitation with Dr. Zhang. Four topics were brought up in last
conference:
1. How to write a high-quality research paper? (
Shuhui proposed Dr. Wu at Washington State in an email after the
tel-conference)
2. What do professors expect from graduate
students during the research?
3. Introduction of P.E. test.
4. Introduction of agricultural engineering in
China (will invite a professor from China to give this talk, Dr. Wang
Maohua was considered as a potential speaker. Wang Qi will contact Dr.
Wang)
3. Miscellaneous
- Wang Qi has booked a hotel Hyatt Regency
Minneapolis, 1300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403 USA. It
is nice if we can live close;
- Haitao will send an email to all members about
the SAC dinner one or two week in advance;
- Wang Qi and Yali suggested we collect our cell
phone number to facilitate our communication in Minneapolis. Five
numbers were obtained at the meeting and a message has sent to Shuhui
for hers.
Haitao Xiang 217-721-7141
Jian Jin 515-520-9621
Qi Wang 217-721-8331
Shuhui Dun N/A
Yali Zhang 785-317-4262
Zhiming Qi 515-520-9583
4. Next meeting will be held on June 7,
2007.
If there is any error about the minutes above,
please let me Zhiming know.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2007 Meeting (April. 5th, 2007) - TOP -
By Haitao Xiang
Attendees (alphabetically):
Haitao Xiang (chair), Jian Jin, Qi Wang, Shuhui Dun, Yali Zhang,
Zhiming Qi.
Date: Thursday, April 5, 2007.
Time: 9:00pm-9:50pm (CST)
All six board members attended the meeting. Issues
on place the order of AOC T-shirt and prepare the student gathering
dinner during ASABE annual meeting. The details are as following.
1. AOC T-shirt
SAC made the decision to use the design submitted
by Haitao as the final version of AOC T-shirt.
Haitao has contacted several T-shirt companies
about the price and he will choose one who offers the lowest price. The
material of T-shirt will be 100% unshrink cotton. Estimated sale price
during ASABE meeting would be $10 per piece.
2. Student gathering dinner
It is only two and half months away from 2007
ASABE annual meeting in Minneapolis. SAC is planning to host a student
gathering dinner to provide a social opportunity to student members to
get to know each other.
Based on the discusses, the dinner will be held on
June 19, 2007.
Jin Jian will check with his friend in University
of Minnesota about the choices of restaurant.
Haitao will contact AOC board members to request
the support about this event.
Several topics SAC is interested in to hear from
invited faculty speakers have been brought up as following:
1. How to write a high-quality research paper?
2. What do professors expect from graduate
students during the research?
3. Introduction of P.E. test.
4. Introduction of agricultural engineering in
China (will invite a professor from China to give this talk)
3. Next meeting
Next meeting will be the early of May. No specific
time was scheduled.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2007 Meeting (Feb. 2nd, 2007) - TOP -
By Haitao Xiang
Attendees (alphabetically):
Haitao Xiang (chair), Qi Wang, Shuhui Dun, Yali Zhang, Zhiming Qi.
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2007
Time: 9:00pm-9:50pm (CST)
1. AOC T-shirt design
The meeting was aimed on discussing AOC T-shirt
design. Three designs had been received by the deadline (Jan 30, 2007)
of the T-shirt design contest. Based on comprehensive discuss, SAC made
several comments on each design:
The first design submitted by Haitao
Xiang(University of Illinois) is simple and formal, which is more
suitable for a professional association. On the back of T-shirt, this
design is planning to demonstrate all fields included in the AOC, i.e.
Biological, Food and Bioprocess, Soil and water, Bioenviromental and
Off-road equipment. The ASABE division names: 1. Biological
Engineering; 2. Education; 3. Ergonomics, Safety, and Health; 4. Food
and Process Engineering; 5. Information and Electrical Technologies; 6.
Power and Machinery; 7. Soil and Water; 8. Structures and Environment
have been suggested to replace the name on current design.
The second design from Ning Tang(Kansas State
University) looks elegant and artistic.
However, this style maybe more proper for a
student association.
The third design was from Shuhui Dun(Washington
State University). This was designed to show the Chinese scissor-cut
style and represent the traditional Chinese flavor. It might be too
complicated for a professional T-shirt.
At the end of meeting, SAC came to an agreement of
combining the first and second design to achieve a design with simple,
artistic and professional style. Ning Tang has agreed to help SAC to
finalize the design.
2. Next meeting
Next meeting would be around early march. Haitao
will set out an email to specify the date.
P.S.
After the meeting, a new design from Zhiming Qi
(Iowa State Univesity) was sent to SAC. The design was consisted of six
sketches representing six areas in AOC. The designer hopes to put each
of pictures on the back of one T-shirt.
Minutes of
Student Activity Committee 2006 Meeting (Oct. 26th, 2006) - TOP -
By Qi Wang
Attendees (alphabetically):
Haitao Xiang (chair), Jian Jin, Qi Wang, Shuhui Dun, Yali Zhang,
Zhiming Qi.
Date: Thursday, October 26,
2006.
Time: 9:00pm-9:50pm (CST)
The forth conference call of SAC (2006-2007) was
held as scheduled. All six board members attended the meeting. Issues
on email list, website update, efficient group communication and
T-shirt design were discussed. The details are as following.
1. New email list
A new email list in Google was created by Haitao
Xiang. The Google email list is more friendly than the previous one in
Yahoo. The change will give SAC members an easier access to subscribe,
unsubscribe and send information. Thanks to the survey in the past two
months, the Chinese students' roster is helpful to create a list that
covers all our members and potential members in North America. Haitao
Xiang will send a greeting email to the list, which will inform the
change to all the members and introduce AOC to nonmembers. For those
nonmembers who are listed but not willing to receive the emails , they
can unsubscribe easily online.
2. Website update
The online registration web page developed by
Zhiming Qi was published. This new function will be tested in following
month.
A new Open Letter to Students composed
by Haitao Xiang was published online. Shuhui Dun provided some valuable
suggestions to revise it.
Haitao Xiang and Jian Jin modified the structure
of the SAC web page, and more information, including Student
Roster, Success Stories, Awards and Job Info , is now available
online.
3. Efficient group communication
The SAC online meeting has been proposed so that
all the student members can be familiar with each other. All the board
members supported this suggestion and discussed how to implement it.
Most of the board members were in favor of a meeting using an online
instant messenger. Haitao Xiang will explore the possibility of an
instant messenger meeting online.
4. AOC T-shirt
Haitao Xiang and Zhiming Qi provided information
on manufacturing T-shirt in both China and US, including the T-shirt
quality and a cost comparison. Board members were in favor of
manufacturing the T-shirts in China, because the lower cost would make
it easy to budget. More details like logistics and importing into US
will be discussed in later meetings.
Qi Wang reported his idea in T-shirt design and
suggested a design competition. Members and nonmembers of AOC are all
welcomed to be involved in the competition to show their own
understanding on agricultural, biological and food engineering. The
best designers will be awarded. Haitao Xiang will make a draft for the
competition rules.
5. Next meeting
Next meeting was scheduled at 9pm CST on Nov.
26th, 2006.
Minutes of Student
Activity Committee 2006 Meeting (Sep. 28th, 2006) - TOP -
By Yali Zhang
Time: 9~10pm CST, Thursday,
September 28th, 2006.
Attendees: Haitao Xiang (chair),
Jian Jin, Qi Wang, Shuhui Dun, Yali Zhang, Zhiming Qi.
Absentee :
None
All six board members were able to attend today's
meeting. During this meeting, board members mainly discussed three
topics, which were Chinese students' rosters submission, AOC T-shirt
design and SAC vice-chair selection. The detailed procedures are as
follows.
1. Chinese students' rosters
A survey of Chinese students studying in ABE
programs in North America has been conducted by board members since the
last meeting. Although board members encountered many difficulties
during this survey because of the limited resources, everybody has made
good effort in collecting the information. Some AOC faculty members
also offered great help. They are: Dr. Jinglu Tan, Dr. Jun Zhu, Dr.
Yanbin Li, Dr. Qiang Zhang, Dr. Ning Wang and Dr. Yifen Wang. SAC
appreciated their help very much. Based on this survey, there are about
160 Chinese students who are studying in ABE programs in North America
at present. This survey also includes 3 universities in Canada.
2. AOC T-shirt design
In the last meeting, SAC decided to design AOC
T-shirts that can be considered as a prize to those students
contributing articles to SAC website in the future. This proposal
received big support in AOC board members teleconference. They agreed
to provide the manufacturing cost. Qi Wang will take care of the
T-shirt design. Haitao will be responsible for the detailed
manufacturing process and Zhiming will help.
3. SAC vice-chair selection
In order to carry forward SAC's good tradition to
the next term (2007~2008), a vice chair is necessary and he will stay
in the new board helping new board members . Zhiming Qi was selected to
be the vice chair of SAC. In the meeting Zhiming expressed his thanks
and he'd like to work hard for SAC of AOC in the future.
4. Other issues
Zhiming designed an interactive membership
application form. This work will simplify the student membership
application process. Haitao has put the webpage into AOC website. The
link is http://www.aoc-web.org/student/sacapplication.html
.
To encourage Chinese students to contribute
articles for SAC website, all SAC board members agree with the
bilingual format in SAC website.
5. Next meeting
Next meeting was scheduled on October 26th,
Thursday, 9PM CST.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2006 Meeting (Aug. 30th, 2006) - TOP -
By Zhiming Qi
The Board Members of Student Activity Committee,
AOC met via teleconference on August 30 th , 2006. Haitao opened the
meeting at 9:00 pm. The Board Member, Haitao Xiang, Jian Jin, Qi Wang,
Yali Zhang, and Zhiming Qi, attended the entire meeting with the
absence of Shuhui Dun.
1. SAC
Membership.
Haitao forwarded the roster and reported the recent situation of SAC
membership. SAC has 48 members composed of ABE students from 18
universities in the North America and 35 students from 7 Chinese
universities. With the exception of the 18 schools, there are still 27
universities with ABE program which do not include any SAC member.
To organize the administration and enrolling of
SAC members, 44 US universities with ABE program were assigned to the 6
Board Members. Haitao sent the university lists soon and every Board
Member was required to survey the schools they got and fill the table
Qi Wang made.
Membership fee was discussed. Every Board Member
agreed that any newly recruited SAC member can either submit their $5
membership fee by mailing a check right with the application form or do
that at the ASABE annual international meeting.
2. SAC Homepage .
SAC-AOC homepage needs to be updated. A simple static homepage with
more information will be established. Every Board Member was asked to
conceive a frame of the webpage and collect materials.
Haitao stated that he would contact Dr. Wang for
the newest list of SAC members, so the AOC Student Members for 2006 can
be published through our webpage.
3. T-Shirt. Yali
proposed making T-shirts for SAC. Every Board Member agreed with that.
Yali would talk to the treasurer of AOC for financial support. Qi Wang
would think about the pattern design.
4. Next Meeting Time.
The next meeting will be on Sep. 28, 2006.
Minutes
of Student Activity Committee 2006 Meeting (Aug. 2nd, 2006)
- TOP -
By
Haitao Xiang
Attendees (alphabetically):
Haitao Xiang (chair), Jian Jin, Qi Wang, Yali Zhang, Zhiming Qi.
Date: Wednesday, August 2, 2006.
Time: 9:10pm-10: 35pm (CST)
This was the first meeting of the new term
(2006-2007) SAC. During the meeting, attendees comprehensively
discussed the missions of SAC and potential activities in the coming
year. A great many wonderful and constructive suggestions had been
proposed during the meeting.
Detailed procedures are:
1. Welcome new SAC board members
The new term SAC, which was formed during the
ASABE 2006 annual meeting in Portland, OR, consists of six students
from four universities. They are: Haitao Xiang and Qi Wang (University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jin Jian and Zhiming Qi (Iowa State
Univeristy), Yali Zhang (Kansas State University), Shuhui Dun
(Washington State Universiy). As a former SAC board member, Haitao
expressed a great welcome to all new joined board members. Also, new
SAC would like to appreciate the efforts and achievements of former SAC
had made.
2. Discussions on the mission of SAC
SAC has been growing rapidly, more than forty
student members in North America and thirty in China have joined us so
far. Based on partially statistics, there are more than one hundred
Chinese students studying in ABE field on the North American continent
and plenty of students in China now are willing to study abroad in ABE
related area. SAC believes we still have a great opportunities and
resources to expand our organization bigger and stronger. We realized
that more attractive services should be provided to our student members
in order to recruit more members. SAC will dedicate to build such a
community that our student members are able to get acquainted, to
communicate and to share with each other. SAC also likes to help our
student members in North American to complete their academic studies
and to build up their professional career by means of providing job
opening information. As for student members in China, SAC is willing to
help them to come abroad, such as informing them real time information
about RA or TA.
3. Modify the current student webpage
Jian Jin has volunteered to be our new webmaster
of student webpage. Some possible improvements about webpage have been
put forward:
- Enrich the contents of student webpage. Share
successful experiences from all AOC members with student colleagues on
the topics students are interested in, such as how to succeed in
academia in abroad, how to apply for graduate school in ABE field etc.
- Manage to integrate some interactive functions
which provide a communication platform for all student members to get
to know each other and share information.
- Prospect student members could submit their
application forms electronically via our webpage directly. Therefore,
it simplifies application procedure.
- In order to attract more students in China, a
Chinese version student web-site has been proposed. And the Chinese
mirror website under CAU could be used in the future to publicize
ourselves.
4. Six districts in North America
As we know, Chinese students studying on
Agricultural and Biological Engineering area in North America are
distributing among more than fifty universities. All those universities
will be divided into six districts, each of SAC board members is going
to take charge of one district to organize Chinese students in that
district.
5. Establish sub-committee in China
The suggestions have been made to look for some
representatives from our current student members in China to form a
sub-committee. This committee could help SAC to connect students in
related field in China and recruit more student members.
6. Next meeting
Next meeting was scheduled on August 30th,
Wednesday, 9PM CST.
Minutes of Student Activity
Committee 2006 Spring Meeting (April. 27th, 2006)
- TOP -
By Jian Shi
Time: April 27, 2006
. 9-10:20pm EST
Attendees: Dr. Naiqian Zhang
(Advisor), Changying Li (President), Min Min,
Xianglian Li, Haitao Xiang, and Jian Shi.
Absentee: Jianqiang He
During today’s meeting, the board members
discussed several topics which included preparation for student
gathering in Portland , speaker invitation, paper competition, and
award nomination, progress of member recruitment from China and also
business of next E-news. Detailed information is:
1. SAC student gathering this summer at
Portland
The time for SAC student gathering was confirmed
at 6 pm on July 10, the Monday evening. The format will still be buffet
dinner plus two invited speakers. Changying has talked to Dr. Lin for
reservation of restaurant as well as the presentation equipments. We
also discussed the potential speakers. Dr. Han Shufeng is still in
highlight regarding his experience in both industry and academic areas.
As suggested by Dr. Naiqian Zhang, the second speaker will be a female
speaker or a fresh faculty member.
After the location and speaker is determined, SAC
will prepare for invitation flyer which includes detailed information
such as map, bus route, and topics. We will also publish SAC student
gathering information in next IMPACT to attract more participates.
2. Progress of member recruitment in
China
Xianglian give a brief report on the status of
student members in China . We confirmed 35 student members in China .
As mentioned by Jian, a formal procedure for membership management has
been created. Xianglian will like to run a statistics on the origin
universities of existing members. Based on the results, we could send
advertisement again on those omitted universities.
As proposed by Haitao, Dr. Qin Zhang and Dr.
Naiqian Zhang will help us to distribute hard copies of recruitment
flyer on their trip to China .
3. Find delegates from
North American Universities
In order to get more efficient reply, AOC
President Ruihong Zhang would like to help us to send email to faculty
members in representative universities and let them recommend delegates
for SAC. Changying will talk to Dr. Zhang to follow up in the upcoming
AOC board meeting.
4. Next E-news
Min Min will be the chief editor of next issue of
E-news. Min Min will email AOC regular members and ask for news
resources recently. We expect the E-news to be released in early June
2006.
5. Award nomination and paper competition
Dr. Naiqian Zhang mentioned again the deadline
for annual award nomination (May 15th) and Paper competition (June
15th). Dr. Zhang will send a revised version of paper competition
poster. SAC will take important responsibility to distribute this
information to all AOC student members, especially student members in
China .
6. Next meeting
Next meeting was scheduled on May 25th, Thursday, 9PM (EST).
The board decided to invite more
potential students in China to this group by posting AOC information to
university forums. Shi Jian will be responsible for sending invitation
letters to BBS (Bulletin Board System) at following six major
agricultural universities: 1) China Agricultural University; 2)
Huazhong Agricultural University; 3) Nanjing Agricultural University;
4) Northeast Agricultural University; 5) Northwest A&F University;
6) South China Agricultural University.
Changying will be responsible for
drafting a proposal to AOC board meeting. The proposal will address
following topics:
Next issue of Enews will be
distributed at the end of January 2006. We will ask help from AOC
faculty members for more job information and events. Changying or
Chunxia is supposed to edit this issue of Enews. SAC member will take
turn to do the job in the future.
Changying suggested having a website
counter to track number of hits/visits to the website, and let us know
who is accessing the site. Jian will do this piece of work.
Changying will ask Jianqiang He from
UFL, and other students from UIUC to join SAC.
Attendees: Dr. Naiqian Zhang (Advisor), Changying
Li (President), Chunxia Wu,
Jian Shi, and Xianglian Li.
1. Website feedback and comment
2. Newsgroup invitation
Following the discussion at last meeting, Jian
Shi will send invitations to student members of AOC asking them to join
SAC newsgroup on Yahoo. This work needs to be done in one week.
3. Publishing first issue of E-news
The first issue of SAC E-news will be edited by
Jian shi. In addition to content discussed at last meeting, and awards
etc, E-news will also distribute information about visit scholars from
China . Students are encouraged to contact and communicate with them in
both school and life. Dr. Zhang will help us provide information about
visit scholars from China .
4. Recruiting non-member students in China .
Changying suggested recruiting students in China
as non-member students of AOC. In general, we provide useful
information such as graduate assistantship to students in agricultural
engineering who are interested in studying abroad. Students in China
can benefit from our services without paying the membership fee. They
can receive information distributed by E-news or Email list but can not
post their questions. If they have any question, they may ask student
members by individual corresponding. This work needs effort from each
of us.
This proposal about non-member student is
tentative, however. SAC needs to submit a proposal regarding this at
next AOC meeting in early January. Changying will draft the proposal.
Also, Changying will initiate a letter in Chinese
to students in China . Dr. Zhang will take it to an agricultural
engineering conference in Beijing , and hand it out to scholars from
different universities.
5. Contacting UFL unknown new-join SAC members
Changying will be responsible for sending letter
to several graduate students in University of Florida to identify one
or two SAC members who joined SAC during AOC student gathering last
summer in Tampa, Florida. This should be done in one week after SAC
teleconference.
A net meeting was held by the Student Activity
Committee (SAC) of AOC on November 11 th, 2005 . The purpose of the
meeting was to discuss future work plans. Three committee members,
Changying Li (President), Jian Shi, and Xianglian Li, were present at
the meeting. Chunxia Wu was absent due to a conflict of her schedule.
The meeting started at 9:30 p.m. Following topics were discussed:
The new SAC webpage has been
designed and will be released soon. The webpage will carry on important
information and be updated regularly by Jian. Now, more information
such as open letter, committee introduction, and recently news, needs
to be organized and uploaded.
The committee decided to create a
newsgroup as a maillist platform for efficient communication and
connection among people in this community. Information, such as
conference reminding, inquiring paper, and sharing room in conference,
can also be asked and answered here. This maillist is for student
members only. Faculty members will be invited later depending on their
willingness. Jian was responsible to create the newsgroup and his work
has been done (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aoc_china/
). The newsgroup was interactive for people who own their yahoo ID to
register; otherwise they can only receive messages. The newsgroup will
be administered by Jian Shi and Xianglian Li.
Jian Shi suggested publishing E-news
regularly to distribute information such as job openings, internship,
fellowship, promotions, and awards etc. SAC will closely cooperate with
Dr. Shaojin Wang who can provide such information, and E-news will
serve as a good complementary to IMPACT. E-news will be edited and
updated by Chunxia Wu.
Changying will initiate an open
letter to both member and non-member students. The letter will be
published in the new SAC webpage.
Jian will write an inviting letter
for maillist to invite more people to join this list. The letter will
be posted on the frontpage of the newsgroup.
Changying brought great news that
Dr. Zhang had accepted our suggestion about waiving student membership
fee from this year on (but no refund for those who have paid for year
2005). Only new student members need to fill out an application form
and pay a one-time $5 membership fee. It sure helps us in member
expanding. Moreover, Dr Zhang is also willing to give SAC other funding
support whatever we are proposing.
Changying suggested scheduling a
meeting with faculty members in two or three weeks. Dr. Naiqian Zhang
and Dr. Shaojin Wang will be invited then. Changying will take care of
contacting professors. The meeting date was tentative.
The meeting adjourned at 11:00 p.m.
