Hi everyone, I’m Brian and I’ll be your Chief Returning Officer (CRO) for the upcoming EngSoc executive ratifications. Unfortunately, we are currently without a VP External and WEEF Director and, as such, will be ratifying the candidates at the next EngSoc meeting. We are ratifying rather than electing the positions since there is only one nominee for each position. The EngSoc Council will have the opportunity to listen to each candidate and ask questions relating to their platforms. Council then votes whether or not to ratify the VP External candidate and WEEF will ratify their own Director at the next Board of Directors meeting. Kristina Lee will be seeking ratification as VP External and Himesh Patel is looking to become WEEF Director. If you want to find out more about the candidates, they each have a section in this edition of the Iron Warrior, or you can come out to the second EngSoc meeting of the term on January 30th.
The VP External manages EngSoc’s initiatives and presence outside of the school. They liaise with other universities’ engineering societies as well as provincial and national groups like ESSCO and CFES. They are also responsible for interfacing with professional groups such as PEO as well as their student memberships. They pick and lead the delegates that will attend conferences outside of the school.
WEEF Director is responsible for the general operations of WEEF from the day-to-day running to chairing meetings and talking to faculty. They also review applications for funding and lead the WEEF representatives from each class.
To get involved with the election process, be sure to stop and chat with the candidates if you see them around campus as well as talk to your class reps. Let the class reps know any questions or expectations you’d have for the candidates so that they can be brought up during ratification. Also, keep an eye out for the candidate’s posters this week around the engineering buildings. Make sure that your say in who you want to represent you gets heard.
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