User:Odoulorenzo/Letter to Professors

<My Work on Corn Starch Fall 2012|Corn Starch Team Page Fall 2012

Hello everyone:

My name is Lisbet Odou. I talked to all of you about an engineering project that my engineering teammates and I have been planning so right now I am just following up with the information of who we are, what we have in mind and why this would be such a great idea for you guys to get involve.

First of all, we are a team of 3 students, Melissa Cyr, Lamin Sesay and me, Lisbet Odou. This semester for our Engineering 100 class we are working on a project about investigating the properties of the non-Newtonian fluid corn starch, for which I provided you with a link of our groups work, this page is going to keep been updated until the end of the project in 2 more weeks, so new information and advance will be posted regularly (in case your interested). Since we have a little of extra time and we are striving to test as much as possible we decided to test corn starch by creating a pool, filled up with corn starch and have people walk over it.

After, taking into consideration that a pool of corn starch would not only be costly, but it would be a lot of work for just 1 or 3 runs of 3 or 4 people, we decided that it would be more cost efficient if we could have this testing to a bigger scale. With the approval of Prof. Foerster, we decided in to make it an engineering club event, in which other engineering students and programs would be invited to participate, in this case all engineering students interested, the Society of Women Engineers and the STEM Program.

What we would like would be:

1. To have students submit a brief descriptions of projects they have completed and tested in the past, which they would be interested in showcasing at the event. (the purpose to submit a description in advance is so that all the detail of the projects can be submitted to the SGA office for approval)

>>>Projects could be submitted individually or in teams and should be a show case of past works or experiments, so that we don't get unexpected results in the middle of the galleria* or quad* >>>All projects would be reviewed over with the SGA office for final approval

Date: November Tues. 6 or 13 or Thurs. 8 (This days up to now present no problem for the galleria but things change, let me know if you have nay major concerns about the date) Location: Galleria* or Quad* (depending on weather and SGA designation of the event) Time: 12:30-2:00PM

We believe that this event would be a great opportunity for engineering students to get some of their work projects out there for people to see, for the benefits of retesting or just simply to showcase their work. For the engineering clubs it would be a great opportunity, one, to get one of SGA requirements for funding done with, and two to have a fun interactive activity for members. For STEM I think  the partnership would be a good chance to promote awareness of the STEM Program to engineering students which might not know about it.

Having said that, please email me with any comments, concerns, or things you would like to know in more detail.

Hope you all have a great week, or what's left of it, and I hope to here from you guys soon,

Sincerely,

Lisbet Odou-Lorenzo

Professional Development Senator

Howard Community College