COE Kickball Game

Here are the pictures from July 13th COE kickball tournament. Good game guys! Pat, thank you for being our photographer. Nice pictures.

Bowling Social Pictures

Pictures from the Bowling Social...

Korean IE Graduate Students WIN Annual Korean Softball Game

Congrats to the 2009 Korean Graduate Student Softball Champions!!! On Saturday, October 10th, the IE graduate students joined the HTM graduate students to win the annual softball tournament.

Here is the winning team's photo!

WAY TO GO!!!!

Badminton Tournament - SUNDAY

Our first annual Badminton Tournament games are going to be held this Sunday, October 4th starting at 2 pm in the co-rec.

Details are as follows:

• All IE graduate students, faculty, and staff are invited to watch, play and socialize in our Badminton Tournament
• There will be a social at GRIS 155 following the tournament
• Prizes will be given for most points scored, best team costume, least points scored, best team name, etc
• All games are doubles games: 2 vs. 2
• Pairs can be guys, girls, or mixed
• Shuttlecocks are provided
• Novice and intermediate brackets will be provided
• Email Ashley (ajbenedi@purdue.edu) or Martin (zhang112@purdue.edu) tp sign up
• If you want to play but do not currently have a partner, let us know and we will make pairs from individuals interested in playing
• The game schedule will be emailed out on October 3

COE Volleyball Tournament - RESULTS

Bracket 1 - BME Wins!
AAE1 (21) - BME (25)
CE (25) - IE (19)
AAE1 (18) - CE (25)
BME (28) - IE (26)
AAE1 (21) - IE (25)
BME (26) - CE (24)

Bracket 2 - CHE Wins
CHE (25) - ECE (15)
AAE2 (16) - ABE (25)
ABE (19) - ECE (25)
AAE2 (5) - CHE (25)
ABE (11) - CHE (25)
AAE2 (14) - ECE (25)

Championship Game
BME (23) - CHE (25)
CME (11) - CHE (25)

Congrats to the Chemical Engineering Team for winning the first annual COE Graduate Student Sports Tourney!!!


See more photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/PurdueIEGSO/COEGraduateStudentVolleyballTournament#

Sport Opportunities

Interested in Intramurals with IIE and SBE
IIE and SBE are combined playing intramural sports this semester. They are playing dodgeball, softball, soccer, and basketball this semester. If any IE Grad students are interested in playing, contact Alex Ramirez (arramire@purdue.edu). Requirements are clothing with NO pockets, no jewelry, and bring PUID.

PESC Golf Tourney
Purdue Engineering Student Councils's first annual Golf Tourney is Saturday, April 11th. It is a FREE golf tournament for all Purdue students. The tournament will be a scramble with teams of four with a noon shotgun start. Players will be provided with golf carts and free food. Clubs can be rented from the club house for $20. Over $500 worth of prizes will be given out! Register soon at www.purdue.edu/pesc. Registration is limited to the first 36 teams!

Sports Tournament - The Outcome

Sad to say that we did not bring the trophy from the CHE-IE Sport Tournament back to Grissom Hall, but happy to share that we had a great showing of participants and supporters. Around 25 industrial engineering students, faculty, and staff came to play volleyball, basketball, and dodgeball.

Thanks to all the IE graduate students who took time out of their weekend to come and join in the festivities. A great time was had by everyone - except Dr. Yi who is probably recovering from a nasty headache - however glad to report he is doing fine and plans on participating in basketball next time!
After the sporting event, Forney Hall's atrium served as a delightful venue for celebrating the successful day. Pizza, drinks, and yummy desserts were provided and gobbled down!

A big congratulations to the Chemical Engineering graduate students!! Thanks for a wonderful afternoon of camaraderie and sports. We look forward to many more opportunities to interact with the ChemE graduate students.

From the ChemE GSO President...
On behalf of the Chemical Engineering Graduate Students, I would like to thank the IE GSO, grad students, faculty and staff for helping organize and participating in the ChemE-IE tournament. We all had loads of fun and really hope that it becomes a regular event. And most of all, we got to know a lot of people from IE and hopefully that will increase our interactions with them!

Links to Pictures - More pictures have been posted!!!
Volleyball


Basketball


Dodgeball


Group Photos

Change of Plans for Sporting Event

The co-rec double booked the facility for Saturday and we will not be able to have the event starting at 2 pm. The event now starts at 5:30 pm in the co-rec on the 2nd floor in the main gym on courts 1 and 2. This will still be followed by a pizza party afterwards in Forney Hall atrium. Sorry for the short notice. Please notify Chris Saldana(csaldana@purdue.edu) if you will not be attending.

NOTE

• You must wear a white or grey shirt if you are participating - ChemE will be in black.
• Parking may be a problem due to a volleyball competition that is occurring at the co-rec so make sure to come early.
• If you are playing a sport, make sure to be there at least 15 minutes before the start time below.
• The team rosters are below.
• ChemE only has 6 or 7 basketball players so we may need a few of our basketball players to participate in dodgeball or volleyball.
• Bring water or plan on drinking from the water fountain.
• If you do not want to participate on a sports team, we would like to invite you to come cheer for us and/or celebrate with us in Forney Hall.

NEW Schedule of Events
5:30 - 6:15 Volleyball
6:15 - 6:45 Basketball
6:45 - 7:30 Dodgeball
8:00 - ?? Dinner

ChemE - IE Sports Tourney

This weekend is the friendly competition against the Chemical Engineering graduate students on Saturday, Feb 7 from 2:15 pm-5:15 pm at the co-rec. This will be followed by a pizza party afterwards in Forney Hall atrium.

NOTE

• You must wear a white or grey shirt if you are participating - ChemE will be in black.
• Also parking may be a problem due to a Big 10 volleyball competition that is occurring at the co-rec so make sure to come early.
• We would like people to come and support the teams during the entire competition.
• If you are playing a sport, make sure to be there at least 15 minutes before the start time below.
• The team rosters are below. ChemE only has 6 or 7 basketball players so we may need a few of our basketball players to participate in dodgeball or volleyball.

As mentioned in a previous email, we are going to play volleyball, basketball, and dodgeball - the schedule is below. Please email Chris Saldana (csaldana@purdue.edu) if you are interested in playing. If you do not want to participate on a sports team, we would like to invite you to come cheer for us and/or celebrate with us in Forney Hall.

Schedule of Events
2:15 - 3:15 Volleyball (volleyball players make sure to be there by 2 pm)
3:30 - 4:00 Dodgeball round 1
4:15 - 4:45 Basketball
4:45 - 5:15 Dodgeball round 2

Volleyball
Ashley Benedict
Bruce Schmeiser
Ruby Li
Gulcin Yucel
Kyle Kyungdoh Kim
Amirali Noorinaeini
Sekhar
Juan Velasquez

Dodgeball
Ruby Li
Chris Saldana
Amirali Noorinaeini
Deepti Surabattula
Ralph Curtis Palmer III
Hayden Goodrich
Martin Yi Zhang
Juan Velasquez

Basketball
Varun Ramamohan
Sekhar
BC Kwon
Mohan Gopaladesikan
JJ Nativi-N
Paramesh
Landry, Steven J
Pat Burnese
Krishna Jayakumar
Aswin Kumar
Ralph Curtis Palmer III
Harikrishnan Sreekumaran
Onan Demirel
Shih-Ching Wu
Sivabalan

See you Saturday!

Welcome Back

I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing break. Here is information for the upcoming GSO events.

Spring 2009 GSO Meetings
Jan 20th 1st Meeting – Welcome Meeting - snacks will be provided
Feb 3rd 2nd Meeting – Tour Dr. Landry’s Lab (David Rozovski)
Mar 3rd 3rd Meeting – Tour MGL (Chris Saldana)
Apr 7th 4th Meeting – Elections

First Thursday and Third Wednesday – Brown Bag Lunch in PMU – Get to know other IE graduate students

Sporting Event
Jan 31st ChemE Competition – Need participants and team captains
Apr 18th Black and Gold Spring Football Game and Picnic

Socials
Jan 20th Welcome Back Social – Jake’s at 5:30 pm (after seminar)
Jan 23rd Opportunity for lunch with IE's Advisory Board (TBA)
Feb 19th Graduate Student Appreciation Carnival – PMU North Ballroom from 12 pm – 2 pm
Feb 20th Social with ABE – Location and time are to be determined
Mar 26th Social with IE Undergrads – Bowling – Location and time are to be determined

Mentoring
Mentoring Opportunities – 2 upper level students for each research area (8 mentors in total).
Mentors must have attended Purdue as a graduate student for more than one year.
Mentors will receive 250 business cards.
Mentors and Mentees will have a budget of $80 for the academic year to be spent on food and drinks (non-alcoholic).

Seeking grad student representative for each professor - please email Ashley at ajbenedi@purdue.edu if you are interested.

Website Information
Facebook Group – Search Purdue IE GSO if you want to join

New blog page – http://purdueiegso.blogspot.com/

Additional Topics
Day Trip - Ideas include Caterpillar, Subaru, Wabash National, or Eli Lilly

Travel Grant - Application will be posted soon and will consist of a confirmation that you submitted a paper to a conference and the abstract of the paper; Up to three $250 grants may be given