POSTED to EE&T ALUMNI 17 JUL 2025

Sections: --- Ctee Notes --- Head of School Follow Up --- Next Ctee Mtg --- Old Humour ---

== INTRODUCTION ==

Prof. Jinhong Yuan called a 30-minute meeting with the Almuni Ctee for Tues 9:30 am, 15th July 2025.

As usual, we shared a lot over MS Teams in 45-minutes.

== CTEE NOTES ==

Briefly, we listened and discussed:

- How could the School help the Alumni?

- Increased student numbers from last year. New Engineering School manager appointed.

- No current staff to co-ordinate Alumni activities

- How to support, plan or prepare for the 40th Reunion?

- Currently getting message out over personal contacts

- Need to have atleast a fortnight to confirm the numbers with the library

- Organising an afternoon tea before the building tour on 1st September

- Two undergaduate scholarships to roll out - one female (2026), other indigenous (2027)

- Scholarship to help underprivileged to do the courses in EE&T for Electrical Engg and Telecommunications Engg disciplines.

- Setting up a scholarship selection ctee

- School can help the online part of the Faculty and name tags

== HEAD OF SCHOOL

FOLLOW UP ==

"Hi Luke, and all,

Thank you for sending the details and for the meeting yesterday.

In the follow up, we will:

1. Book Room 102 in EE building from 3pm on Sept 5 for 40-year EET Alumni Reunion gathering.

2. The School will provide name-tags for the alumni and Afternoon Tea from 3:30pm – 4:30pm.

3. Organising the tour of the labs and building from 4:30pm - 5:30pm (Jolanta, please follow up with Phil, Roy and Shane)

4. School will reach out to the faculty and the University and find more information/contacts on alumni 5. We meet in early next month to follow up.

I have cc-ed this email to our School Manager, Elizabeth Gurung Tamang, and our Faculty Senior External Engagement Manager, Vaiju Deb. We will discuss how the school and faculty can further support the reunion activity and Scholarship launch.

Please let me know if you have any comments and suggestions.

Best Regards,

Jinhong"

== NEXT CTEE MEETING ==

From Jolanta, some current empty 30-minute timelsots in Prof. Yuan's August schedule.

These are on Mon 4th, Wed 6th, or Fri 8th.

== OLD HUMOUR ==

Something I copied into the back of an early diary.

[1] How to get an engineer's attention: a) Break something,

b) Free coffee,

c) Say, "there's got to be a better way to do this".

[2] On a printed T-Shirt:

Engineer

noun. [en-jun-near]

An individual who does guess work based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.

See also Wizard, Magician

[3] A definition for Engineer:

One who gets excited about things that no one cares about.

// Posted to EEnT Alumni (LI), Elsoc-Alumni (FB) and own LI space

// 17 JUL 2025

// Ctee: @Kaveh, @Luke, @Edmund, @Shakthi, @Vijay

// Prv Ctee: @GaganSK, @SomanshA, @SimonB, @MatthewR

// Heads: Dean @JulienE; EEnT Prof. @JinhongY

Post - EEAlm 250717.docx

Robert Smith

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