Student Rep Meeting 1

Hi All,

I had a productive meeting with your student reps yesterday; below are the issues that were raised and actions to be taken:

1. More time to practice with SketchUp in class; I'll ask one of our tutors, Jeremy Harkins, if he will show some advanced tips and tricks in the next few weeks.

2. There was some interest in gaining additional resources for learning SketchUp. Tutorials for stairs, sphere's, manipulating curves, groups, layers and components; I'll put a list together on the class forum to gather useful tutorials (it'll be a sticky at the top of the forum, so it's easy to find).

3. Students wanted to know when SketchUp pro (2014) will be in the labs; I'll follow this up with BECU and let you know.

4. There were questions regarding transferring models between SketchUp pro and make; the answer to this is to export the model as a 3DS or Collada (dae) file type and then you can import it into SketchUp Make. IMPORTANT! be sure to do this before you hit the 8hr trial deadline in SketchUp pro; otherwise you'll need to come to uni to open your pro file on one of the lab machines (see note 3 above). You can also go File > 3d Warehouse > Share Model to upload the model to the 3d Warehouse so your tutors can download it in a file type that suits their SketchUp install. 

5. Several students had joined the Arch society .... which i highly recomend ... but they were unable to find the society online. web presence; one student rep mentioned Orgsync ... which is a new for 2014 system that you have to go through to register for societies at UNSW, here's a link: https://orgsync.com/register/university-of-new-south-wales 

6. Some students noted that Business, Law and the Medical faculties have camps. The question is can we have a camp for students here at Built Environment? It would be for team building, meeting people from other disciplines and generally having a good time. I'll raise the idea with our head of program, head of school and the Associate Dean of Education and let you know what they think.

7. Finally, there was some interest in internships. One question was, is there a database? I'll follow this up but in the meantime I'll contact our tutors and see whether any need help in their firms.

That's everything I think; if I've missed anything let me know in the comments below.

Cheers