The Engineering newsletter (e-nEUS) is a joint-initiative between the UBC Engineering Undergraduate Society and the UBC Faculty of Applied Science. This weekly newsletter  provides a unified, diverse source of information for all Engineering undergraduate students at UBC.  Articles such as job opportunities, scholarship opportunities, social events, tutoring, and more are hosted within this newsletter each week.

The e-nEUS Editor will compile content for the weekly newsletter from a variety of sources including the faculty, engineering student services, and the EUS, and will distribute this content to undergraduate students using a web-based system. The student will also collaborate with all other engineering student groups to ensure that their events are publicized in the weekly newsletter.

The student editor will be responsible for developing associated content for the EUS website in conjunction with the EUS webmaster. This web content will include a full archive of the weekly newsletters, as well as updates to their Google calendar.

A full description of the position can be found here.

If you have any questions about this posting, please contact: Will Gallego, Student Development Assistant, at: studentdev@apsc.ubc.ca.

To Apply:

Please submit a cover letter, resume and contact information for three references to Emily Wyatt, Student Development Coordinator, at Emily.wyatt@ubc.ca and vpcomad@ubcengineers.ca

Applications must be received by August 26th, 2011.

If you’re new to UBC this September, you may or may not know anyone. You may also have questions, be looking for textbooks, or just curious on what sort of environment you’ve gotten yourself into.

Have no fear! There is an EUS-run facebook group made solely to be a way for incoming first years to connect to each other in preparation for the new year. You can check it out here. There is also a logo contest, which closes at midnight, July 31st.

Once the first year council has been elected, the group will then pass to them to run and use for whatever they choose! If you’re potentially interested in being a part of this, make sure to talk to any exec you see, peruse the website some more, and take part once the elections are announced!

On behalf of the other executives, we’re very excited to meet you all in just over a month and a half! Make sure to come out to Frosh events and say hi!

Congratulations to all of the volunteers who received awards last Friday at the EUS Volunteer Appreciation Event and thank you to all of those volunteers who came out .  It has been an amazing year for community involvement and all of you who have gotten involved deserve a pat on the back / high-five / bear hug / many thanks.  In case you missed the event though, here were some of those who got recognized!

Emblem Awards (Emblems coming soon!)

• Glenn Finlay
• Nicole Winstanley
• Pratima Cheung
• Naoki Tokuhashi
• Amanda Li
• Lin Watt
• Nick Sertic
• Alim Jiwa
• Krista Theilmann
• Kimberly Dioszeghy
• Morgan Tien
• Erika Lewynsky
• Caleb Scott

One Year Service Award with Gratitude

• Morgan Tien
• Will McEwan
• Richard Schaap
• Ian Campbell
• Riana Satori
• Alison Smith
  

One Year Service Award with Dedication

• Chris Chan
• Will Gallego
• Nick Sertic
• Dan Olson
  

Outstanding Club Volunteers of the Year

• SPD: Levi Engels
• FIZZ: Lara Backer
• First Years: Nancy Peng
• Civil: Darren Thomas
• Enviro: Megan Harwood
• ESTC: Ryan Beaumont
• ESC: Laz Milovanovic
• ECE: Erin Bryden
• MINE: Glenn Finlay

*some clubs chose not to nominate an outstanding volunteer as they have multiple MVPs

Hope next year we will have an equal amount of amazing dedicated volunteering and as great of a community!

<3

Amanda
Past EUS President

Applications are now open for 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 positions.  Responsibilities range from handling our weekly BBQ’s to planning our amazing Engineer Your Career Fair jobs fair; with over 40 different positions currently up for grabs, it’s guaranteed that you can find a position that will suit you and your interests.

Apply Now!

Click here to see a flowchart of all of the positions available.

Voting for the EUS Elections opens tomorrow, March 14 at 9:00 am and ends on Friday, March 18th at 4:00 pm, and the candidates hope you will vote and support your engineering government.  It is very easy to vote, all you have to do is login to your UBC SSC account, highlight the “Grades and Records” tab and click Webvote!

If you are interested in learning more about the candidates, there will be a second EUS Candidates Forum  happening this Tuesday at 1pm, at the Cheeze.  The VP Finance, VP Communications and Administration and VP Events candidates will be giving their speeches and taking questions during this time.  Come out, ask questions and get informed!

To see the minutes of the first candidates forum, click the link bellow:

EUS Elections Open Candidate Forum Minutes

The EUS is now accepting nomination forms for the following 2010-2011 Executive positions:  VP Communications & Administration; VP Finance; VP Academic; VP External; VP Events; and President. The positions of AMS Representative(s) and Applied Science Student Senator are also available.

To learn more about each position, the rules and regulations of the elections, and how to get yourself nominated, check out the EUS Elections Webpage

You can also submit an application to be a part of the Elections Committee, where three students at large are tasked with ensuring a fair and well run elections.  For details on the position as well as how to apply, please download the EUS 2011 Elections Committee Application Form.

Emblem Awards are awarded for service beyond that called for by the office held by the recipient, and shall take into consideration their record of service for the entire time that they have been a member of the Society.

The recipient shall be in their graduating year.

Nomination forms are available here and are due Feb 2, 2011 and recipients will be announced during the 92nd Annual Engineers Ball Feb. 5.

Elections for the Alma Mater Society, your student government,  Senate, and Board of Governors are taking place this week and we encourage everyone to vote as these students will represent you for the next year! There are two engineering students running; Sean Heisler for Board of Governors, and Eric Distefano for Senate.   We encourage everyone to investigate all the possible candidates and vote for those whom they believe are most suitable for each position.

Voting period ends on January 21st, at 4pm.

To vote, check out the AMS Elections website.

For a full list of all of the positions and who’s running for them, click more.

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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.

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