Hello there lovely people of Waterloo Engineering! I know it’s really hard to believe, but we’re already halfway through the term!
CRC Meeting
The Council Review Committee, which was formed at Joint Annual General Meeting this summer had our first meeting. We discussed the current state of council, and started doing research. The committee will be getting feedback from current and past executives, the Board of Directors, other Engineering Societies, and councils external to engineering. We will also be holding a feedback session at our next council meeting on October 28th at 5:30 in CPH 3607. If you want to provide feedback, make sure to come to the meeting!
SSO Workshops
We ran a brand new study skills workshop with the Student Success Office on Monday, October 5th. This workshop was extremely successful! Seven student volunteers helped to run sessions about time management, backwards planning, and test taking. Because it was so successful, we are looking into running another workshop after Midterms, so stay tuned!
Business Cards
Business Cards are now available for sale in the Orifice! If you are interested in purchasing them come in and talk to our friendly staff; you will have business cards before you know it.
Mental Health Initiatives
I have been working with the organizing committee for Mental Health Wellness Day on their whiteboard campaign. This campaign showcases students answering questions about mental health and wellness on whiteboards. We spent three days taking photos in engineering and we managed to get 100!
I also worked with Kristine Meier from Counselling Services to put together a presentation about Mood disorders and Engineering students. We presented this to the Faculty Operations Committee and it was very successful. We have been asked by the Chemical Engineering department to make the presentation again!
Best of luck in the chaos that is the middle of term!
Second Council Meeting Summary
We had our second EngSoc council meeting on Wednesday, October 7th. The Associate Dean of Teaching, Gordon Stubley, spoke about course critiques. They are currently changing their process to use an online system, so council had the chance to hear about the changes and provide their feedback on the process.
This meeting had two elections. We elected the members of the Sponsorship Committee and the Leadership Award Committee. The sponsorship committee is responsible for allocating $9600 to student groups within engineering. The Leadership Award Committee is responsible for collecting all of the applications for the award and managing the selection process.
For more information about council meetings make sure to check the EngSoc website, and subscribe to the mailing list! If you have any questions about our council meetings please contact executive.b@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca and we would be more than happy to answer your questions. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 28th at 5:30 in CPH 3607.
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