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Fall semester 2008

* The officers and members took part by setting up a booth, flyers, and posterboard at the August 2007 Student Organization Fair on Texas Tech campus. The Student Organization Fair is directed to increase membership numbers and provide information regarding SPE. (Pictures are available for viewing on the chapter webpage)

* Sept. 5th, 2007: Officer Meeting was held and ideas and plans for the Fall semester schedule were discussed. *Made a goal for the semester: We have currently 20 members, and our goal is to raise membership up to 30 members by 2008!!!

* Sept. 10th, 2007: Poster hang-up on campus. Posters and handouts regarding our meeting and the organization as a whole were posted around campus by the officers to raise awareness of meetings and SPE as a whole.

* Sept. 14th, 2007: First Seminar/Meeting: Guest speaker, Dave Kraus-Director of University Career Services, gave a seminar regarding career placement, job fairs, etc. The meeting was a success. We had a packed room of ~30 students from all divisions of engineering and chemistry in attendance. An introduction of new officers and a thank you for past officers contributions were given. All previous officers were given special coffee mugs containing their faces as a token of our thanks for their hard work and efforts in the past year. (Pictures are available for viewing on the chapter webpage)

* October 5th, 2007: Officer's Meeting held to discuss the scheduled second seminar and fall festival-outdoor activity.

* Oct. 11th, 2007: Second Officer's Meeting to finalize details pertaining to fall-festival outdoor activity.

* Oct. 26th, 2007: Second seminar presented by guest speaker Professor. Shiren Wang from Department of Industry Engineering. He talk dealt with the area of Nanotube/polymer nanocomposites. Again, great attendance and interest in this particular area of research.

* Oct. 27th, 2007: Fall Festival-Outdoor Activity was a huge success! The festival included a trip to the "Pumpkin Capitol of the USA" in Floydada, TX and ended at the corn maze followed by the party with camp fire, let's make and enjoy American traditional camp food- "Smores". The trip to the pumpkin patch was accompanied by a guided tour through the pumpkin patches, collie show and person pumpkin souveniors for each member. The corn maze included a meal catered by SubWay and cake provided by Dr. Khare.