Section Leadership Meeting (open to all Members) - virtual

Section Leadership Meeting (open to all Members) - virtual

Wednesday 16 March 2026, from 1745 to 1845 hrs.

Members in attendance: Blake West, John Karlin, Dr. Hossein Najmi, & Dr. Rus Noorossana.

This 1hr continuing education event provides 0.1 Recertification Units.  Print this page as your certificate, verifiable by QR code:

Things to discuss:

• Member survey results.   SQ Component Relations is encouraging us to use the build-in survey function within ASQ.  Though everyone did receive a notification about the survey, & it is still accessible for feedback, extended to March 14th.
• Finalize promotional items to order & how to disperse/dispense

  • Promotional Items

    The other thing we need to ask ourselves is distribution, which may be a bit much for a survey.

    Mailing everything out to every member might evaporate all our assets.

    Do we need to mail out a small "swag pack" to every Section member?  More expensive items we could include in some random mailed packs, &/or only distribute to those members participating in person.  Would love your thoughts here.

    Could we vote on distribution as Section Leaders with input from Survey results?

    Budget: < $,4000 (estimates in red from Gayla's previous email)

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    Proposed items:	Quantity:	Est cost per item	Total
    Branded coffee mugs (need these)!	x 50	$10 - $30	$500 - $1,500
    Pens & lanyards (all members)	Pens x 200 Lanyards x100	Did not see any

     

    Water/sports bottle or steel tumbler x 50 $26 - $42, $1,300 - $2,100

    Tote bag x 50 $13 - 30 +,  $650 - $1,500

    Polo shirts x 50 $50,  $2,500

    Epoxy domed stickers (all members) x 400 (Gayla: Could not find these exact stickers- prices vary on standard stickers$500 - $2,000

    Mouse Pads 25 $9,  $225

• Finalize decision on streaming equipment; formal vote (if needed) to purchase (goal is to complete purchase by March 31st). What's most cost effective for our purposes?
• AV Streaming Equipment: Copilots top recommendation for us based on our needs:
            Audio

• Behringer Go Video Kit ($52.90)

  USB microphone kit with noise-canceling capsule.

  Includes tripod, smartphone clamp, and monitoring output.

  Great for capturing clear audio in small rooms.

  Video

  Anker PowerConf C200 ($60)

  or

  Logitech C922 ($100) - higher quality

  *Also need: USB 6 to 10ft extension cable for microphone ($8 to $15)

• 🚩Next event: Need a presenter or Gemba walk for April 🚩
• Possibility of doing a joint event with CIOK, OKC Project Management Institute, APICS / ASCM Oklahoma Chapter (supply chain), Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance, Central Oklahoma Manufacturers Association, Oklahoma Engineering Foundation, OKC Institute Internal Auditors,  OK Dept. Commerce, American Council of Engineering Companies, Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers, Oklahoma Society of Professional Engineers, etc.  Anyone have contacts with any of these?
• IISE is interested & has a total of 109 IISE members; they have not yet responded on if they have a presenter.  

• John K. met with OKC PMI on Friday Feb 27th; there is some interest & they are discussing it amongst their Chapter Leadership.
• Any other input, thoughts, ideas, open mic for idea bombs