I hope you are all enjoying your summers wherever you may be. Besides Hans, who’s in the Yukon, the rest of the exec are still in Vancouver planning and preparing for Frosh Week and beyond. Each of the exec have included a short update of what is going on in their portfolio.  If you need further clarification, please email any of us.

VP Academic (vpacademic@ubcengineers.ca)
* EUS Scholarship recipients will be announced soon (early July)
* Met with Carol Jaeger (Associate Dean, Undergraduate Engineering Programs) regarding first year curriculum reform
* Academic Review website will be revamped by late July/early August with visuals! (Stay tuned)
* Working with the AMS for Engineering Course Directory (discussion stage)

VP ComAd (vpcomad@ubcengineers.ca)
* Handbuk is done and looking awesome, thanks to Wesley, Alisa, Vicki and Will
* If clubs want to make any announcements, we do have the summer editions of the e-nEUS:
- Wed, July 6th – deadline for submissions: Monday, July 4th
- Wed, August 3rd – deadline for submissions: Monday, August 1st
* There will be a (hopefully) large work party at the Cheeze on Sat. July 23. If you are in town, it would be great to have you come out. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194486360599619 If you know anyone that is handy and could help, please invite them.
* If you are on twitter, follow @ubcengineers

VP Events (vpevents@ubcengineers.ca)
* In negotiation with Evans Lake for Frosh Retreat Booking Sept 16-18
* In negotiation with the Marriott for E-Ball Booking Feb 11, 2012
* Spirit Committee is almost complete, but could do with a couple more good people
* We have been running some events with the Faculty aimed at high school outreach and recruitment. The next event is a BBQ at the Cheeze for students at UBC for the Shad Valley Program July 14.

VP External (vpexternal@ubcengineers.ca)
* Met the new (and some old) execs from the other WESST schools and had some great leadership training and workshops at WESST EM. Thanks SFU for hosting it this year.
* Maintaining contact with NUS, looking good for next year!
* Attended APEGBC Vancouver Branch AGM, new chair is Nathan Ozog
* Working with Student Development to host an Imagine Day bbq for transfer students without a department
* Figuring out conference application deadlines
* Website is updated! (for club presidents and execs)

VP Finance (vpfinance@ubcengineers.ca)
* Deliveries back on track for pop machines
* AMS budget submission being worked on, due end of July
* Endowment fund claims need to be submitted
* MAME cabinet has most of the necessary parts
* New supplier found for frosh shirts

President (president@ubcengineers.ca)
* We are having a lunch with the Dean next Tuesday and will let her know all the awesome things the EUS is doing.
* The Equity Office is providing Positive Space workshops July 18, Aug 23, and Sep 9. Everyone is encouraged to attend a session, and we will have patches for your red if you become a Resource Person   http://positivespace.ubc.ca/workshops/

We are excited for the upcoming year and are always open to your input, so if you have feedback or ideas, please let us know.

The new exec have been keeping busy this month, a couple weeks ago we were all up at SFU for the Western Engineering Student Societies Team Executives Meeting (WESST EM). It was a great experience where we got to meet representatives from the western schools while absorbing valuable information and learning new skills. Dan and I attended the APEGBC President’s dinner last night, where we got to hear from David Podmore, one of the main people involved with the new BC Place!

In case you’re on campus this summer and need somewhere to chill, the Cheeze will be open! Summer hours are Monday-Thursday from 9AM to 6PM. If you do stop by, make sure to respect the space and clean up after yourselves.

FROSH IS IN 3 MONTHS! I’m already rather excited, especially after meeting some more incoming first years at last weekend’s Welcoming Day. If you happen to be a first year, make sure to join the facebook group here so you can meet others and ask some questions! Don’t forget to check out the frosh events closer to September, as they’re a great chance to meet people and start getting involved in Engineering!

Hope you all have been having an awesome summer so far!

For all fans of gaming at the cheeze, you should know by now that our Puzzle Fighter machine went offline due to a power failure sometime last month, and has remained so ever since. Instead of getting it professionally repaired, I’m going to be replacing it with a MAME system. MAME stands for “Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator,” meaning it can synthesize the hardware of countless arcade machines while running on a Windows or DOS-based PC. Everything will function like a normal arcade machine, but by opening it and doing a little typing, I can switch which game is available for play (or make the master list public). Here are a few pictures of what’s working so far:

The monitor can be hooked into any computer running special some video tweaking software with VGA-out, but right now the only method of input is a keyboard. I need to either build or purchase a keyboard encoder to get the joysticks and buttons to work with the computer, but that’s pretty easy to do. Any game that MAME supports can currently be played though. The only major issue I’m having is that even though the video signal is being amplified, the screen is still somewhat dim.

As always, arcade games are free at the cheeze. However, this system won’t be publicly available until further notice (not being done and all). Once it is though, come by for a round!

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to give a quick report on yesterday’s Strategic Planning Meeting!

We have a great EUS Council this year, and we are all really excited to provide engineering undergraduate students with great services and advocacy in the upcoming year.

A couple highlights on the agenda:

-Update on the Engineering Student Centre from the ESC team

-An introduction to incorporation

-Great yearly plans from the incoming executive

-Discussions about Frosh Week, current AMS happenings, the EUS scholarship, and liquor licensing rules

-Ratification of new CM’s and Committee Members

-Good food and a chance to mingle with incoming and outgoing Councilors

Thanks to Dan Came for taking over Speaker duties and Graham (and Nancy) for taking minutes and running the projector. And another huge thanks to Amanda, Lin, and others for their massive contributions to the EUS over the last few years.

I look forward to a highly productive year with great results that benefit our entire engineering community at UBC

DAN

Hello everybody!

So it’s been a while since my last update, but here’s what I’ve got to say:

• PAF T&C Round 3 is next week!  Results will be released and posted online on the Tuesday afterwards.
• Transition to the new executive is coming along.  Ian, the new VP Finance, and I have already been working on next year’s budget.
• Budget is available!  The latest iteration can be received by emailing me at vpfinance@ubcengineers.ca.  I can’t upload it on the website because the blog format sucks

That’s all I have to say right now!  Good luck on the last of your midterms e’rybody!