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Beta Mu Chapter Spotlight
By: Grayson Noah | Annual Report Chair and Bridge Correspondent
The Beta Mu Chapter of IEEE-HKN at Georgia Tech
maintains a multitude of programs to provide benefits
to members, to the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, to Georgia Tech, and to the community.
One of the most prominent programs run by the Beta
Mu Chapter is a comprehensive lab supplies sale every
semester for three major labs in the core undergraduate
ECE curriculum. To prepare for sales, the officers contact
professors each semester to obtain a list of parts
required and then proceed to order the parts from
several suppliers. At the beginning of each semester,
to further sales, all officers take shifts selling parts in
the ECE building lobby and visiting labs during open
hours. The sales provide students with a significantly
less expensive alternative. Estimated total savings
passed on to students since the program was started
has reached over $140,000 and continues to grow.
The sales also serve as a sizeable source of revenue
for the Beta Mu Chapter, allowing the organization to
award scholarships to deserving students in the ECE
School. The Chapter sponsors scholarships for early
innovation by an ECE student and a deserving junior.
In addition, the Beta Mu Chapter provides awards for
an outstanding junior in ECE, an outstanding senior
in Electrical Engineering, and an outstanding senior in
Computer Engineering.
Service to the community is something the Georgia
Tech branch of IEEE-HKN takes very seriously, as it
is representative of the character traits and values of
IEEE-HKN. In an effort to foster more community
service through the organization, the Beta Mu Chapter
of IEEE-HKN developed a partnering relationship with
the Georgia Tech chapter of the honor and service
organization Gamma Beta Phi that is expected to last
into the foreseeable future. Every semester, IEEE-HKN
members and prospective initiates tackle a service
project together, in addition to the individual service
many members complete. In fall semesters, this takes
the form of Georgia Tech's annual "Team Buzz" studentorganized community service day. This year, volunteers
were split into groups which helped landscape
worn cemetery lots, replace flower beds, and plant
new flowers at Oakland Historic Cemetery. Another
Georgia Tech student-organized community service
project, Tech Beautification Day which happens each
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spring, is focused on helping Georgia Tech's facilities
department in maintaining and improving the campus
and its immediate surroundings. This year's HKN Tech
Beautification Day project involved planting new trees
and spreading mulch around Georgia Tech's central
campus transit hub over the span of four hours in an
effort to help Georgia Tech secure its recently acquired
arboretum status.

ECE Spring Picnic sponsored by Beta Mu Chapter of IEEE-HKN
April 8, 2016

In this past year, a push was made to improve the
publicity for the chapter. This was to improve internal
cohesiveness, external relations, and overall involvement
of IEEE-HKN on campus. Representatives of the chapter
attended more campus events to network with other
organizations and campus leadership. In addition, a
dedicated publicity chair position was appointed for
the first time in Spring 2016 and continues to play an
important role in furthering these objectives. The Beta
Mu Chapter's biggest event of the year, the annual
ECE spring picnic, has been greatly aided by these
improvements. A large multimodal publicity campaign
of posters, flyers, emails, and social media outreach
preceded this year's picnic, and the results were visible
in the impressive attendance at the final event. Nearly
400 students and faculty members were present for
some duration of the event, greater attendance than at
any prior picnic. A delicious menu including barbecue
was provided, and a few of the chapter's corporate
sponsors were invited as guest speakers for the event.
In summary, the Beta Mu Chapter is working to embrace
and amplify, through tangible actions, the principles for
which IEEE-HKN stands.
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