Hey look at me, I’m exec! That means I need to write an exec report. I have some new things to mention to you, the students. So here goes nothing.
Are you an academic representative for your class? Does your class even have academic representatives? If not, make it so! There are important department meetings that you will need to attend that help to improve your learning. Also, this term will see the return of academic rep meetings with myself and your Education Commissioner, Anupriya Sadhukhan. The structure of these meetings is going to change from those in the past. I will not be passing on any reports to you at these meetings; that information will be available in The Iron Warrior. Instead, I would like to run these meetings as mini workshops. We will focus on dealing with how to handle difficult situations, leadership skills, and possibly how to impart academic news to your class.
At the time of writing this, I have attended a meeting with the Senate Undergraduate Committee. Engineering didn’t bring anything up at this meeting. However, it should be of note that there is a new PD course on the horizon, PD 8. PD 8 will be called “Intercultural Skills” and will deal with the effects that one’s culture plays on their everyday actions. Although this course is not engineering specific, it will provide another option for those choosing PD electives. Due to the changes to the Professional Development course structure for engineering students, this course will be labelled with slightly different pre requisites, though this won’t affect engineering students.
An engineering centric PD course is being developed. No new news on this engineering PD course at this time. However, I hear that it will be awesome.
I will have attended a Cooperative Education Council meeting by the time you read this. I will make sure to post information about this in my blog on the EngSoc website. You can find it at http://engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/blog. Fancy, right?
As information arises, I will be sure to impart it upon you, the students in some form or another. Possible receptacles for this info are here, Engineering Society meetings (every second Wednesday at 5:30) or my blog. If you have any questions or concerns, you will be able to find my schedule for office hours in the Engineering Society Office This office is located right underneath the LED display in CPH.
Until next time, peace out!
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