What: The E-ball Soccer Tournament (Soccer with a 5-foot soccer ball)

Where: McInnes Field (by the bus loop)

Who: Teams up to 8 people!  (please pre-register)

When: 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Why: CASH prizes for the top 3 teams! $50, $30, and $20 respectively!  Also GLORY and AWESOMENESS.

If you don’t feel like playing, still come out and watch!  It is forecast is SUN!

So Bob Orlando has suggest what may be the best idea to come out of the Events portfolio.

This year, and years in the past, we’ve used microbrews at our events. They have the best quality/cost ratio and it helps support the Vancouver beer seen. Thus far this year we’ve been using Storm Brewing (Who are excellent BTW), but we want to see if they’re truly the best.

What Bob has suggested is that at the start of each school year (and possibly this Jan) we have a beer tasting festival. We bring out a tonne of microbrews from around the lower mainland and let you all decide which you like best. The winner of this competition will get our sole business for the school year. We hope that doing this will both add a completely new event to Events portfolio, and maybe save the EUS some money. This savings would of course be passed on to you…..

IN THE FORM OF LOONIE LAGER.

What do you guys think?

The UBC Engineering Competition (UBCEC), held here at UBC on November 13th, is a day of engineering challenges hosted annually by the EUS. Categories include Junior Design, Senior Design, Consulting Engineering, Engineering Communications, Impromptu Design, and Innovative Design.  For more info on each event and how to register, click here.  For general guidelines and registration info, click here.

UBCEC is also the prequalification for WEC. The Western Engineering Competition (WEC) is a highly prestigious competition between engineering students from the nine different universities in Western Canada.  All 6 events which are contested at WEC will be held at UBCEC; the top 1 or 2 winning teams from each event moves on to participate in WEC, which will be held at the University of Saskatchewan from January 26th to January 30th.

Are you thinking about going to graduate school?  The University of Waterloo is starting a new Masters Program in Business Entrepreneurship and Technology and are looking for new students for their university.  They are holding an information session on the 29th, Wednesday from 6-8pm, at Macleod 214.

The results are in for the 2010 PP Council Elections!  Click here to find out who you’re new first year council is!

The PP (first year) Council is the student government of first year engineers, with the PP Council President sitting on the EUS Board of Directors. The PP council is given a budget, some advice and guidance from the EUS President, and access to tons of support, and then they are let loose! From paintballing to poker parties, any event that the council comes up with and is willing to organize can be done. The council also sees to the Academic and Professional concerns of first years. Being part of council is a great way to get involved without a ton of time committed, meet a large number of first years, and develop your leadership skills.

Nomination forms are currently being accepted for the 2010/2011 PP Council; for more details, click here.  For a full list of all positions, click here.

Voting day is scheduled for the 24th of September!

Imagine day has arrived!  And with it, the beginning of the best Frosh week UBC has to offer, Engineering Frosh 2010!  Jam-packed with events of all kinds, first years are encouraged to come check out all of our events, with upper years welcome as well.

And of course, with a start of a new year, we also go through another year of jealous students from other faculties besmirching our cairn.

This year however, those unfortunate students will have far more surface to cover.  Students at large have modified the cairn, however the change is rather less noticeable until you get close up;  the Cairn has grown in size by about 2 feet.

Significantly wider, taller, and bigger than it was before,  the EUS is currently looking for first years to become Keepers of the Cairn to help keep the grandeur of this Cairn intact.

Students interested in becoming keepers of the Cairn are encouraged to contact the VP Events at vpevents@ubcengineers.ca.

Want some rewards for all your efforts towards sports and charity this year?  You may be surprised by what activities qualify towards patches! Patches are great additions to your Red/Cardigan/backpack etc.

Sports

For being part of sports teams, doing storm the wall or taking part of an EUS event, you get points towards large E patches!

Charity

For giving blood, taking part of Pi in the Face, donating to charity, you get points toward charity star patches!

Fill in the forms in by Friday, April 9 and they will be given out at our Volunteer Appreciation Night!

Following up on UBC’s massive success at the Western Engineering Competition, the EUS and Shell sponsored the twelve student members of the four qualifying teams to compete in the Canadian Engineering Competition from March 18-21, 2010!

UBC was once again very successful, placing 2nd in both Senior Design and Extemporaneous Debate.  Congratulations to Andrew Carne, Bob Orlando, Justin Stevens, and Eric Pospisil for their second place finish in Senior Design!  Congratulations to Sean Heisler and Fraser Macdonald for their second place finish in Extemporaneous Debate!

If you are interested in attending CEC next year, look for information on the qualifying UBC Engineering Competition coming in Fall 2010.

Engineer your way to victory in this team trivia contest, on March 25 from 5-7:30 pm in HENN 200!

$240 in cash prizes, food baskets, and more… and not just for winning the overall contest!  Awards are given for funniest response, most team spirit, bonus round wins, and much much more!

Teams are coming from all over, not just UBC Engineering, so bring your friends and your thinking caps, and be prepared for an epic battle of wits!  Rumour has it that teams may be coming from our cross-town rivals at SFU and that far-off distant land of UBC Science….

To register, email genius@ubcengineers.ca, listing the 6 total team members (or less), team name, and team affiliation (e.g. “3rd Year Mech Eng or “EWB”) if applicable.  Space is limited so sign up today!

To find out more about the event, check out the academic events page or email genius@ubcengineers.ca.