Who are we?

Our Constitution     CURRENT OFFICERS President Ali Farahanch Vice President   Undergraduate Student Electrical Engineering & Computer Science E-mail: ali_f http://web.mit.edu/ali_f/www/   Hila Hashemi Community Outreach Chair Graduate Student Mathematics E-mail:hhashemi http://web.mit.edu/hhashemi/www/ Azadeh Moini  Secretary Undergraduate Student Electrical Engineering & Computer Science E-mail: amoini http://web.mit.edu/amoini/www/ Maryam Modir Shanechi Treasurer Graduate Student Electrical Engineering & Computer Science E-mail: shanechi http://web.mit.edu/shanechi/www/ Jamal Rahi Social Chair Graduate Student Physics E-mail: sjrahi http://web.mit.edu/sjrahi/www/   Ali Hosseini Social Chair Graduate Student Mechanical Engineering E-mail: hosseini http://web.mit.edu/hosseini/www/     Rana Amirtahmasebi Social Chair Graduate Student Urban Studies & Planning E-mail: ranaa http://web.mit.edu/ranaa/www/   Kaveh Milaninia Social Chair Graduate Student Materials Science and Eng. E-mail: kavehm http://web.mit.edu/kavehm/www/

Officers' Duties

• Communication with other organizations and representing PSA. Replying to E-mails and distributing the E-mails that other officers should take care of.
• Keeping a record of Alumni sign up E-mails.
• Taking part in Funding meetings of GSC
• Keeping the group together; resolving possible conflicts.
• Distributing E-mails to our mailing lists (done with VP together)
• Making sure the meetings are scheduled and followed and everything goes on track.
• Keeping a record of all meetings and important documents (funding applications and results etc)
• Keeping track of deadlines for different applications and also the assets of PSA.
• Organizing end of the year election and orientation lunch with vice president
• Estimated time: 10 hours per month

• Filling in for gaps
• Organizing some smaller events: Norouz table, end of year election (with president), activities midway,
• rientation lunch (with president)
• Maintaining PSA mailing lists
• Filling the funding request and reimbursement forms for the events organized by him/her
• Notes: Having prior experience with PSA is very useful for this position
• Estimated time: 12 hours per month

• Collecting the funding request forms
• Taking part in GSC's funding meeting
• Informing the social chairs about the available fund for their events and paying them some money before the
• vent.
• Reimbursing the social chair for their event expenses.
• Keeping track of the reimbursement procedure (From other Officers Filling out the forms to depositing the check into PSA account).

• Keeping record of allocated fund for events.
• Keeping record of the total expenses and revenues in each event.
• Keeping a clear record of every transaction of PSA account.
• Keeping a copy of all past reimbursement forms for using in the next time that we have the event.
• Estimated time: 10 Hour per month

• Adding the calendar to the website
• Adding password protected folder for officer correspondence

• posting announcement of events regulary on the website.
• documenting organized events in the past events of the website.
• posting new photos of PSA events.
• updating the front page of the website regulary.
• Incremental improvement of the website design
• Updating the links
• Estimated time: 8 hour per month

• Organizing one predetermined event each semester (the possibilities are: Dinner/Norouz, Halloween/Dinner, and
• alda/I-fair)
• Organizing at least one other event each semester (examples: movie nights, BBQ, Soccer tournament, lectures,
• usic night etc)
• Filling the funding request and reimbursement forms for the events organized by him/her
• Estimated time: 10 hours per month

All the officers are expected to help in leading meetings and writing the meeting summaries, as well as, helping other officers in organizing different events.

Guidelines: PSA officers are encouraged to read event guidelines before each event.   PSA Meeting Summaries PSA officers are encouraged to read the previous meeting report before going to the next officer meetings.

Next Election: The next election will be around April. It is open to all MIT students to participate.

This page is last update 4 September, 2003 by PSA's webmaster. Contact him at alam@mit.edu. This page has been accessed at least times since March 2003.