Hi everyone and welcome (or welcome back) to campus! For those of you I have not met yet, my name is Hannah Gautreau and I am your Engineering Society President this Fall. I am in my 3B term of Management Engineering and I’m so excited to be on term with the rest of the EngSoc executive, commissioners, and directors to work on making Fall 2015 the best it possibly can be!
My major goal for this fall is to work with the faculty and the students to increase mental health awareness and mental health resources on campus. I’ve been working hard this summer to get these initiatives started, and I am making a lot of progress! I am working very closely with Counselling Services to bring more mental health supports into Engineering. So far all of the executive as well as some commissioners and directors have received QPR Training, which is essentially the mental health version of CPR. I am also working with Engineering counselling to bring the Mates program over to Engineering. The Mates program is a peer mental health mentoring program where students are able to seek help from students who are specially trained to help students on this level.
I am also working on increasing communication between EngSoc members and the executive. I am working with my communications commissioner to make it much easier to get information to all students. We have developed infographics that get posted to Facebook every week so all you need to do is like Waterloo Engineering Society on Facebook to get all of the information that you need! In addition to this, I always want to hear your new ideas! If there is something that you would like to see happen within EngSoc, send an email to myself or any of the other Executive and we are happy to help you make it happen.
A couple of other things you can look forward to in the following weeks are a brand new practical study skills workshop, and business cards going on sale in the EngSoc Office! We are partnering with the Student Success Office to make a crash course workshop about scheduling, exam prep, and problem solving skills. You will get to apply these skills to your school work with help from upper year students! We are also working to finalize the details of selling business cards in the orifice. You will be able to get a generic Engineering design or even submit your own!
If you have any questions about this article, the society, or just want to come say hi, I’m almost always in the EngSoc Office, so stop by anytime!
Engineering Society Meeting 1 Summary
The first council meeting of the term took place on Wednesday, September 23rd. The room was full, and there was a lot of great discussion. The winter 2015 Actuals were presented, and the fall 2015 Budget was approved. There were also elections for the Teaching Excellence Award Committee and the Council Review Committee. There were also changes made to our financial policies.
For more information about the meeting, including the winners of the elections and the budget, be sure to check out the meeting minutes which will be available on the EngSoc website at http://engsoc.uwaterloo.ca. If you have any questions, please contact the Executive at executive.b@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca. The next council meeting will take place on October 7th, at 5:30pm in CPH 3607. See you there!
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