Page 2 - Eta Survey - Spring 2014

Chapter News From the each other’s lives. We Consul rounded off the year with a string of brotherhood events culminating in a s a frst semester Consul laughter flled Secret Santa AI’ve come to realize the exchange. depth to which Kappa Delta This spring semester we Rho has infuenced my life. recruited fve new members Organization, accountability, and steadfastness into our ranks and were have been molded into who I am as a person by proud to initiate them on the ceaseless, and often times enjoyable, efforts March 20th. On the service of my brothers. Having spent six semesters front we have once again observing and taking part in the endeavors of run a successful blood the Eta Chapter it’s easy to say that there’s never drive and sent a group of The pledge induction with the pledges from left to right: Rajiv Nair, Kevin Quealey, a day where we’re not working on something. musically inclined brothers to John Krapf, Noah Ralston, and Will Smith. At the end of the last semester we found the Illini Dance Marathon to receives. Our strong and responsive Alumni ourselves with months full of memories. House raise money for St. John’s Children’s Hospital Board, in partnership with our alumni network participation in campus philanthropy events was in Springfeld, IL. Furthermore, this April we and the Laurus Group, has provided us with a through the roof, exhausting our philanthropy are hosting the second annual Luau for the beautiful house to call our own, and continues budget, and through our partnership with the Little Ones, a philanthropy dinner, to beneft to offer us wisdom and guidance so that we Red Cross we were able to run a very successful children in need. Also in April, on the 26th, the may have as fulflling of a college experience as blood drive, exceeding their requested amount. brothers of the Eta Chapter are getting together possible. I wish all of our brothers the best for Alumni relations were strong and rewarding in the city of Chicago for a starlight flled cruise what will be a great 2014 year! with a great Homecoming. Though we may for our Red Rose Formal. have lost the game, the day was still enjoyed by As we move forward into the summer brothers young and old as we shared delicious months, we are both thankful for the upcoming Hickory River barbeque and caught up on warm weather and the support that our chapter Navdeep Singh Chapter Spotlight: Chris Charhut Editor Notes: Representing our chapter as Spotlight is Sophomore Chris I will also be investigating the potential of Charhut. Our current Praetor and Creative Works Chair, Chris has been implementing the wireless gauging technology fundamental in updating chapter operations in the house through his use of in other areas of fabrication. I am working in technology. He has increased sales with upgrades to the purchase website the Construction and Forestry Division. and improved our product image. A Mechanical Engineering student from the hometown of Lake Bluff, IL, he has been living in the house since 2013. How do you spend your time outside of Chris currently works at the university book store, and in 3-D design studio school and Eta? as a super-user (lab assistant). This summer, he is looking forward to an Outside of school, I work with a graduate internship with John Deere. Chris hopes to work in the Construction and student at his startup. He and I, along with Forestry division in Quality Engineering, and next year would like to study another group of researchers, work on making abroad perhaps in Europe. He is currently searching for a work study patent ideas come to life. We are given a task program. Read on to fnd out more! and a budget and then we pretty much get to How have you revamped the Creative Screenshot of the chapter website store do whatever we need to do to make the idea Works Chair & Praetor positions? that Chris created. become a reality. The problem with attendance was that no one in Why is 3-D printing gaining popularity the house knew what events they have attended at Illinois? and which ones they have not. I moved the 3-D printing is becoming more and more attendance off the website that no one checked popular in engineering programs throughout and moved it to an online Google document UIUC. There are more and more classes that everyone had access to. I like to think coming up where students brainstorm this improved attendance and less people were machines to solve problems, and then get ineligible because they were able to look and the chance to model these machines on the see which events they have attended and which Also people don’t need to spend the time to computer and 3-D print them out and see how ones they need to make up. With the Creative get the money to the Creative Works Chair, well they work. This takes the experience of Works Chair, I attempted to make it easier to they can do it all online. designing a machine to the next level because purchase KDR shirts. Before, everyone paid now you actually get the chance to see your in cash and someone had to keep track of who design in action. got what size shirt. I created and set up an At John Deere this summer, what type of online store for all KDR shirts created by the work will you be doing? What type of 2015 work-study program Creative Chair and others. People are able to At John Deere I am working to fnish are you looking for in Europe? purchase items online and it automatically implementation of the wireless gauging Currently I am looking into studying abroad in keeps track of sizes. This improves shirt sales technology throughout machining work centers. Europe during spring semester of 2015. I am because it gives people who don’t have money I will be optimizing the system to ensure it is deciding between Germany, the Netherlands, on them an opportunity to purchase shirts. as user-friendly for the operators as possible. Denmark and Sweden.