Are you looking for a part-time job this summer?  Do you have strong written and verbal professional communication skills, experience with web design, and good analytical research abilities?  The Engineering Undergraduate Society and the Faculty of Applied Science are hiring a Research Assistant for your new Engineering Student Centre, and we want you!

For the full position background, job description, and list of qualifications click here: ESC Research Assistant – Job Posting.  Preference will be given to applicants eligible for Work-Study or Work-Learn.

Submit your resume and cover letter to escassistant@ubcengineers.ca by Tuesday, April 20 at 11:59 pm!

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!

Come tour all of the engineering clubrooms to help with your decision of which department to choose!

Each departmental club will have fun activities and/or presentations that showcase what’s special about that program. First years get the opportunity to ask questions of senior students who have been through everything before.

The first tour leaves at 3:30 pm sharp and the last tour leaves at around 4:00 pm.

Meet at the Cheeze and split up into groups, after which a tour guide will lead your group around for some good times. Hope to see you all there!

We are just three days into E-Week with another 3 to go and the turn out and the level of competition have been spectacular! Here’s a recap of what you’ve missed if you couldn’t manage to make it out to everything! (more…)

The EUS is now accepting nomination forms for the Executive positions of VP Comad, VP Finance, VP Academic, VP External, VP Events and President, as well the positions of AMS Rep and Applied Science Student Senator for the 2010-2011 session.  For full details, click here.

The UBC Engineering Competition is now accepting application forms!  Basically the qualification round to get into the Western Engineering Competition, we will be holding all 6 WEC events at UBC within the coming weeks!  For details on each event, and how to apply, click here.

Did you know a new Engineering Student Center is currently being planned?

This exciting project is intended to provide approximately 9,000 sq ft of space dedicated to student use! The EUS has been working on this project for over 2 years, but we need your feedback!  Come out to to the first of three consultation days on Tuesday, November 3rd in Kaiser 2020/2030! All sessions are drop-in, so stop by if you have some spare time. The schedule of sessions is provided below:

11am-12pm: Open House and Q&A, Project siting and general concept
1pm-2:30pm: Design Roundtable, Sustainability

The EUS Executive would like to heartily congratulate the September EUS Volunteer of the Month, Julian Ritchie, who will be receiving a $20 UBC Food Services gift card and a selection of merchandise of his choice from Red Sales! (more…)

Want to find out more about the robotic engineering student teams?

Come out to the Thunderbird Robotics open house to check out the Snowbots’ robot racers, TREAD’s moon excavators and the Thunderbots’ soccer playing robots.  There will be demos, team members and FREE FOOD!

Date: Tuesday, September 29th
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Location: Kaiser 2020/230

First year council represents the largest department within engineering.  Click here to see who’s running and hear from each candidate on why you should vote for them. (voting starts on Friday, eleven o’clock at the Cheeze!)