[Makerspace-keymembers] OTI/Senior Design UIUC Introduction

[Jeffrey Putney]

Wow, I was writing a different email for the keymember list and didn't mean
for the entire list to be included here. So to MakerSpace members who got
this, please reply to just the keymember list so we don't fill others in
boxes.

Sorry for the mistake,
Jeff

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On Jan 17, 2014 7:48 PM, "Chris Ritzo" <chris.ritzo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> First, thanks Jeff for making the connection between OTI and the EE
> senior design class. This sounds like a cool opportunity for us as well.
> Scott & Igor, nice to meet you over email.
>
> Andy and I work together and talked briefly about these projects over
> email. He's out of town this week, but we can connect next week and
> determine how we can be involved in mentoring. It would be great to know
> your expectations or levels of involvement. At the very least, Andy
> and/or myself could be involved virtually through Skype or Google
> Hangout to present about the ideas Andy described. He and I will need to
> talk about ongoing mentoring over the semester and how much time
> commitment we can provide. I also floated the idea to Jeff that
> Makerspace Urbana folks could be a connecting point with us on this,
> providing a space and mentoring locally if they have interest and capacity.
>
> Perhaps you can give us an idea of what level of mentoring involvement
> might be appropriate for us, primarily doing this over VC, perhaps
> weekly or biweekly.
>
> Andy and I will talk about time commitments on our end and we can
> connect next week.
>
> Does that sound ok?
>
> Thanks again,
> Chris Ritzo
> Senior Technologist, Open technology Institute
> New America Foundation
>
>
> On Fri 17 Jan 2014 05:53:32 PM EST, Jeffrey Putney wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I just wanted to quickly link everyone up, as I've talked to you all
> > individually. Scott Carney is the professor who runs the EE senior
> > design
> > <
> https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/?f=External%20Mentors%20Program>
> class.
> > I believe Igor is the grad student in charge of all the details of the
> > class. Andy Gunn is a field engineer at OTI and has also worked on
> > other awesome open technical projects like the Prometheus Radio Project.
> >
> > I think you're all up to date with the rough project pitch I forwarded
> > from Andy, and Scott's suggestion to combine the two battery projects
> > into one. One open question to Andy was would you like to involved in
> > mentoring?
> >
> > Any other questions for now?
> >
> > I'm excited about this opportunity :-)
> > Jeff
> >
> >
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> >
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