Hey everyone, and welcome to yet another VP Education Exec Update! I’m going to keep it short this issue as things have been relatively quiet on the education front, but I have a couple of updates about co-op.
Last week I met with the new coordinators for the Co-op Fundamentals Course (CFE) that all engineering students take as part of their concepts course in 1A. In the past this course has struggled to effectively communicate useful information to students. We discussed many things such as how to better communicate resume writing tips, methods for approaching job applications, and other parts of the course. Later this term, I may be looking for some 2019 volunteers to vet some of the new concepts and ideas within this course, so stay tuned.
In addition to talking about CFE, we discussed an upcoming resume tips session to be run at the new ENG 101 program on July 11th. This program is the replacement for Student Life 101, but focuses a bit more on engineering concepts. I’m looking for a 3rd or 4th year student who would be interested in getting a little bit more involved in this and related first year co-op initiatives. If this sounds like something interesting to you, please let me know and we can talk a bit more about the details.
One other thing that has been going on is the ongoing survey of work term reports. Everyone should have received an email with the work term report survey in it. This survey is intended to understand the current state of work term reports along with getting student feedback on how to improve them. If you didn’t receive the email, the link to the survey is bit.ly/EngSocWorkTermReportSurvey.
I hope midterms have and/or are still going well for everyone and you’ll hear more from me next week. As always, my email is vpeducation.a@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
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