Just a quick update from the VP Finance, our budget has been approved by the AMS which means we are good to go for this year.  Hope everyone enjoyed their summer and is looking forward to Frosh!

I am really glad we have these blogs this year so we can all tell you about all the things going on behind the scenes! It is pretty easy to lose sight of what is going on besides the giant flashy social events we hold, and it is sort of hard to piece together what exactly the EUS is doing over the summer!

From my own portfolio, here are some key things I have been doing with my summer hours:

• A Visibility Campaign that will make it easier for you to see a summary of all what the EUS has worked on, is working on and will be offering you this incoming year!
• Planning a council and volunteer symposium for September to make sure YOUR representatives will have knowhow and the opportunity to collaborate to serve you better
• Lots of documentation
• Conferences and meetings (WESST EM, NCWESTT, Exec Retreat, AMS Meetings, ESC Meetings and more!)
• Establishing connections with faculty, alumni and student leaders across campus
• Managing my lovely executives and CMs/Exos!

I am hoping to do more detailed posts on singular projects in the next while so you will be hearing a bit more about a lot of these!

I am also hoping, for your reading pleasure, I can keep this blog a bit more relaxed and you can find it an enjoyable read and a way to get to know me a bit more.  I do take the professional representation of the Engineering body very seriously, but I think I can do that while keeping things lively!

For example, I was going to do a welcoming message here as an opening blog, but then realized you could find one here: If you want my welcoming message for all engineers, click here: http://www.ubcengineers.ca/about/people-and-organisations/executive/.

Instead, I decided to give you some light hearted facts about myself.

Hope you come back to read.  I promise to attempt to improve my blogging skills…

Cheers,

Amanda Li
Your EUS President

The summer has a been a busy time, but I just wanted to give you guys a quick update.  The EUS budget has been submitted to the AMS, we’re just waiting for them to reply back.  Red Sales has also been busy; they’re off to a great start and are filled to the brim with new ideas.  Red Sales will be a thunderous force when everyone gets back to school!  Other than that, all I can say is that I’ve been trying to keep up with reimbursements and depositing all the money that’s still coming in to us from E-ball or industry sponsors.

I’ve also been diligently practicing my uber Starcraft 2 micro.

BATTLECRUISER OPERATIONAL!

Can I just start off by saying that Sophie Penhall is an awesome, awesome person?

A couple of weeks back, I had the privilege to do the first ever photo-shoot for the all-new Red Sales Website ( to be online soon). Sophie kindly volunteered to be the first model for the website, wearing all of our engineering clothing that we have in Red Sales, and doing several different poses in them. Cool stuff!

A lot of the pics turned out really good, like the one on the top right here (the before pic).  I was surprised that my camcorder could even provide pics like this, unedited, so I was pretty happy.

I like using Aperture a lot (Mac professional photo editing software, similar to Adobe Lightroom) so I decided to enhance the photo; I reduced the exposure and brightness a bit, upped the contrast and vibrancy a little, and increased the definition a wee bit.  After that, I switched to photoshop, and added a “lens blur” effect to the backgroumd, which completed the “after” pic on the bottom right. Pretty cool eh?

I’m hoping to have the after pic on the front page of the website, as an image button that you can click on to go to the t-shirts section (“after” would be replaced by “t-shirts”).  I have several other background shots for the other sections, other sections being Reds, sweaters+vests, and accessories (hardhats!).  So yeah…..the Red Sales website will be pretty awesome, I can guarantee you that.

-Will, Your VP Comad

The tentative date for next year’s Iron Ring Ceremony is March 23, 2011.  Collection of ring sizes and grad fees will likely begin towards the end of September. Any questions can be directed to grad@ubcengineers.ca

Congratulations to the CEC 2012 Organizing Committee chaired by Eric Pospisal and Sean Heisler on a successful bid proposal. The Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES) announced recently that we will be hosting the 2012 Canadian Engineering Competition. There will be many opportunities for anyone interested to get involved in the planning and execution of this event in the upcoming 18 months.