This past weekend, your new EUS Executive (minus Graham) made the trek over to the city of Winnipeg to take part in a weekend long conference hosted by the Western Engineering Student Societies’ Team. Executive’s Meeting is an opportunity for incoming and outgoing engineering student society representatives to attend workshops and discussions devoted to bettering our student societies, and get in touch with our counterparts from all of the other Western Canadian engineering schools. This conference is planned for early May every year to allow incoming executive to better transition into their new roles by being able to talk to other schools and get better acquainted with how they can take their new roles in a good direction, while learning from the past mistakes other schools have made and avoid repeating them. Finally, it allows us to build a network with other schools so we can work together to help solve problems and bring new ideas into our school as student societies to improve everyone’s university experience.
We arrived at the airport at 11:00 Manitoba time, and were promptly shuttled tothe University of Manitoba where we made a quick round of introductions and met the 40+ delegates from the other WESST schools. After a bit of socializing, we rested up fora long day of workshops and presentations. I attended a presentation on running better engineering competitions, hosted by a past WEC competitor and organizer, a update on what the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students current activities and directionare, and a discussion about what the role of VP External is and what direction it should be going towards. Our other delegates attended sessions relating to merchandising, running more diverse events, risk management and many other topics. We were all able to give and take lots of information, both during and outside of the sessions, and see how we stack up against other schools. We had a keynote speaker from the Frontier Center for Public Policy, who talked about how they are trying to work with the government to make their services more effective, and other lobbying efforts they are involved with. The speaker had interesting views on topics such as global warming, but gave good insight into writing effective public policy aimed at economic success.
It was very interesting to see the broad range of student society sizes, and the different personalities that all of the schools have. Our EUS is very fortunate that we areat a school that has a University paper that does not write smear campaigns against engineers running for student union government, our on campus food services do not have exclusive serving rights in our buildings, and our student society hasn’t seen attempts at a full blown hostile takeover. All in all, WESST EM was an excellent experience for all of us who attended, and we are looking forward to using the knowledge we gained this weekend to make our year in office as productive as possible.
This post was actually written by Will McEwan, VP External; Ian just uploaded it.
Applications for the EUS Community Contributions Award are now open!
This award was established in 2009 to recognize demonstrated leadership, personal initiative, innovation, and service to the UBC Engineering community. Each year, two junior awards of $500 and two senior awards o
f $1000 are awarded to deserving undergraduate engineering students.
Applications are due by email on May 31 at 5pm to vpacademic@ubcengineers.ca. Successful applicants will be notified by June 30.
Congratulations to last year’s winners: Graham Beales, Adrian McNeill, Andrea Palmer, and Edward Chu
More details regarding the award, as well as the application form is available here.
The Handbuk 2012-2013 is naked and in need of a cover!
What’s in it for you?
1. Our advertising agency, C U Advertising, is offering a cash prize to the client society or organization that produces the most appealing handbook cover design. We will send them a hardcopy of the agenda once they are shipped in, nominating your design for the contest!
2. It will be the cover of 2750 Handbuks used by faculty, departments, and every first year. You get bragging rights!
Requirements
Theme: Victorian/Steampunk
Dimensions: 7×9″
Colour: preferably engineering colours (red, white, black)
Words: “Handbuk” or “Engineer’s Handbuk” and “2012- 2013″
Others: must include an “E” or other engineering related item(s)
Format: JPEG or PDF
Submit your cover design(s) to vpcomm@ubcengineers.ca by May 25th.
To see a photo gallery of all of the Handbuks currently kept in the Archives, click the picture bellow.
The minutes from the first day of this year’s EUS Strategic Planning Meeting have been approved by council and are now available online.
Please visit THIS link for information on the tutoring sessions being offered this final exam period. We will be offering Math 101, 152, 257, and APSC 160. Each session will cost $2.
Thank you to all the volunteers for your service to the EUS this year. We would like to congratulate the following award winners:
1-Year Service Award with Gratitude:
Harshanvit Singh Chattwal
Alisa Yao
Dusan Milovanovic
Tagg Jefferson
Kurtus Hancock
Craig Reitmeier
Adrian McNeill
Graham Beales
Diane Currie
Katherine Babcock
Isha Isha
1-Yr Service Award for Dedication:
Alannah Gray Hubbard
Karanbir Gill
Dominic Tong
Emblem (4-Yr Service) Awards:
William Gallego
Dan Came
Daniel Olson
Annelies Tjebbes
Sean Heisler
Shane Beaton
Alex Szymanski
Lazar Milovanovic
Bowinn Ma Award (Councillor of the Year):
Julian McGreevy 
Spirit Award (ability to motivate their peers):
Nicholas Zeng 
Joey Uyesugi (unexpected, exceptional service to the EUS):
Richard Schaap 
Applications are now open for (almost) all volunteer positions in your EUS!
At the end of every year, the EUS does a call for volunteers to fill next year’s Coordinating Manager (CM) and Ex-Officio (XO) positions. The positions have a hugely different range of required skills and levels of responsibility, everything from painting the cairn to running the amazing Engineer Your Career jobs fair; with around 40 positions currently up for grabs, it’s guaranteed that you can find a position that will suit you and your interests. The only positions not hiring at this time are: Head Griller, Co-op Rep, Nursing Rep. Don’t worry that the application form says “2011-2012″ – the form has not changed this year.
If you would like to volunteer as a member of Spirit Committee (responsible for running Frosh Week and E-Week), applications will open over the summer, after a Spirit Coordinator is selected.
Apply Now! For more information on the positions, talk to any EUS executive, the Volunteer Coordinator, or the current holder of the position.
Applications close April 25th at 11:59PM.
The results for the 2012-2013 EUS Executive Elections are now out!
They can be found here!
Please contact the Elections Administrator at elections@ubcengineers.ca if you have any questions.
Nominations are now open for students wishing to run for EUS Executive, AMS Representative, or APSC Student Senator positions for the upcoming year. All of these positions are fantastic ways for students to get involved and make a difference for their fellow students.
Think you’d like to be one of the superstars that runs the EUS, or makes a difference for students through Senate or the AMS? Check out our elections page for all the information you need!
Nominations are open now, and close at 5pm on Friday, March 2nd.
Campaigning runs from March 2nd until March 16th.
Voting begins March 12 and closes March 16th.
Get all the information you need to run a successful campaign at our elections page, here.
E-Ball Tickets are on sale NOW at Red Sales!
With only 3 days to go until the big day, Red Sales is now selling off the last of our E-Ball Tickets! The 93rd Annual Engineer’s Ball is by far one of the biggest events of the year, so you won’t want to miss it!
This year’s event will include:
- A speech by our awesome AMS DJ-President Jeremy McElroy
- An E-Week Recap Video and Presentation
- A large dance floor and DJ Oker for the party at the end
- A delicious 3 course meal
- A professional photographer to take pictures of you and your friends
Tickets are $50 each, $40 for E-Week volunteers. Pick yours up now, before they’re all gone!
More details on our Facebook event page, here.