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Iron Warrior Policy Manual

The Iron Warrior Newspaper operations is bounded by a policy manual agreed upon by both Engineering Societies. Click the link below to view the Policy Manual.

IW Policy Manual (Version 5, 2018)

Contacting the Iron Warrior

For inquiries, submissions, questions, letters, etc – you can contact the Iron Warrior in the following ways:

Email: theironwarrior@gmail.com

Mailing Address:

The Iron Warrior
C/o Waterloo Engineering Society
DWE 3520A
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3G1

Important Dates

Meetings occur on Mondays at 6:00 PM in DWE 3520A and on Discord.

Iron Warrior Staff

The Newspaper of the University of Waterloo Engineering Society – Since 1980

The staff of The Iron Warrior varies with each academic term (every 4 months).

Fall 2025 Staff

Editor-in-Chief: Julia Suljak
Advertising Manager:
Layout Editor: Jeremy Bijoux
Distractions Lead:
Iron Inquisition Lead: Yasmin Abu-Narr
Social Media Manager: Amara Damji
Circulation Manager: Jeremy Bijoux
Offstream Editor-in-Chief: Jeremy Bijoux

Past Editors-in-Chief

Fall 2025	Julia Suljak	4A Chemical
Spring 2025	Chloé Guillemette	2B Biomedical
Winter 2025	Athavan Gananathan	4B Biomedical
Fall 2024	Chloé Guillemette	2A Biomedical
Spring 2024	Athavan Gananathan	3T Biomedical
Winter 2024	Chloé Guillemette	1B Biomedical
Fall 2023	Athavan Gananathan	3B Biomedical
Spring 2023	Julia Suljak	2B Chemical
Winter 2023	Nela Jankechova	4B Systems
Fall 2022	Ewan Simms	3B Management
Spring 2022	Athavan Gananathan	2B Biomedical
Winter 2022	Ella Walsh, Nela Jankechova	3A Biomedical, 3B Systems
Fall 2021	Ewan Simms, Sam Suys	3N Management, 2A Biomedical
Spring 2021	Ella Walsh, Nela Jankechova	2B Biomedical, 3A Systems
Winter 2021	Ratan Varghese, Kirsten Ehlers	4B Computer, 3A Biomedical
Fall 2020	Nela Jankechova	2B Systems
Summer 2020	Ratan Varghese	4A Computer
Winter 2020	Kirsten Elhers, Nela Jankechova	2N Biomedical, 2A Systems
Fall 2019	Kirsten Elhers	2A Biomedical
Summer 2019	Janny Wang	2B Nanotechnology
Winter 2019	Samridhi Sharma	3B Chemical
Fall 2018	Rafiq Habib	2A Management
Spring 2018	Hasan Ahmed	2B Nanotechnology
Winter 2018	Nick Owens, Cameron Soltys	2A Mechanical, 4B Mechanical
Fall 2017	Gabrielle Klemt	2B Geological
Spring 2017	Vince Magas	4A Management
Winter 2017	Donovan Maudsley	3B Mechanical
Fall 2016	Caitlin McLaren	4A Chemical
Spring 2016	Bryan Mailloux	2B Mechatronics
Winter 2016	Raeesa Ashique	2A Electrical
Fall 2015	Meagan Cardno	3B Nanotechnology
Spring 2015	Cameron Soltys	2B Mechanical
Winter 2015	Nancy Hui	4B Civil
Fall 2014	Leah Kristufek	3B Chemical
Spring 2014	Nina Feng	3A Environment
Winter 2014	Spenser Good	3B Mechanical
Fall 2013	Alexander Lee	2A Nanotechnology
Spring 2013	Lucas Hudson	3A Mechatronics
Winter 2013	Andrew Fisher	4B Civil
Fall 2012	Farzi Yusufali	3B Nanotechnology
Spring 2012	Jacob Terry	2B Nanotechnology
Winter 2012	Chris Letnick	3B Computer
Fall 2011	Jon Martin	3B Civil
Spring 2011	Mikayla Micomonaco	4A Electrical
Winter 2011	Cailin Hillier	3B Geological
Fall 2010	Roy Lee	2A Nanotechnology
Spring 2010	Angelo Alaimo	3A Electrical
Winter 2010	Amrita Yasin	3B Chemical
Fall 2009	Trevor Jenkins	2A Management
Spring 2009	Michelle Croal	3A Chemical
Winter 2009	Kevin Ling	2A Computer
Fall 2008	Stuart Pearson	2A Civil
Spring 2008	Sunny Ng	4A Computer
Winter 2008	David Morris	2A Electrical
Fall 2007	Faraz Syed	4A Chemical
Spring 2007	Bahman Hadji	4A Computer
Winter 2007	Harout Manougian	3B Electrical
Fall 2006	Jaclyn Sharpe	2B Mechanical
Spring 2006	Gabriel Chan	3A Systems
Winter 2006	Andrew Dodds	2A Mechanical
Fall 2005	Dan Arnott	2B Environmental
Spring 2005	David Yip	3A Mechanical
Winter 2005	James Schofield	3A Computer
Fall 2004	Andre Beltempo	3B Mechanical
Spring 2004	John Olaveson	2B Civil
Winter 2004	Jeff Henry	4B Computer
Fall 2003	Joseph Fung	3N Computer
Spring 2003	Jonathan Fishbein	2B Software
Winter 2003	Jonathan Ng	4B Computer
Fall 2002	Matthew Harper	2B Computer
Spring 2002	Niki Czerniak
Winter 2002	Maria Simoes
Fall 2001	Stephanie Purnell
Spring 2001	Margaret Parkhill
Winter 2001	Peter Cresswell
Fall 2000	Raymond Ho
Spring 2000	Tania Bortolon
Winter 2000	Ryan Bayne	3A Computer
Fall 1999	Mat Pigozzo	2B Mechanical
Spring 1999	Ian Tien	2B Computer
Winter 1999	Luke Windisch	2A Systems
Fall 1998	Andrew Hately	4A Environmental
Spring 1998	Caroline Page	2B Environmental
Winter 1998	Pierre Menard
Fall 1997	Michael Hermann	2B Systems
Spring 1997	Jeff Gobatto
Winter 1997	Chris Foster
Fall 1996	Ryan Chen-Wing
Spring 1996	Katalina Princz
Fall 1995	Andrew Chan
Spring 1995	Scott Dumville, Michel Svare
Winter 1995	Colin Young, Andrew Chan
Fall 1994	Cathy Richardson
Spring 1994	Kim Farwell
Winter 1994	Martin Zagorsek	4B Systems
Fall 1993	Marc Risdale, Kim Farwell
Spring 1993	Don Bowman, Alun Fryer	3A Systems, 3A Systems
Winter 1993	Scott Chandler, Marc Risdale
Fall 1992	Autumn Umanetz, Brent Mooder
Spring 1992	Scott Chandler, Chris DeBrusk
Winter 1992	Ramesh Mantha, Jonathan Seet
Fall 1991	Chris DeBrusk, Kevin Johnson
Spring 1991	Gus Scaiano
Winter 1991	Kevin Johnson, Harvey Watson
Fall 1990	Gary Peterson, Alice Zee
Spring 1990	Linda Hachey, John Kingdon
Winter 1990	Elliott Simcoe, Alice Zee
Fall 1989	Todd Ruthman, Ted Timar
Spring 1989	Carolyn French, Geoff Vona
Winter 1989	Danny Lee, Sonya Montgomery
Fall 1988	Carolyn French, Lindi Wahl
Spring 1988	Neil Boyd, Danny Lee
Winter 1988	Ian Simpson, Kevin Moon
Fall 1987	Thomas White, Neil Boyd
Spring 1987	Chris Tague, Michelle Wahl
Winter 1987	Michael Schatz, James Abraham
Fall 1986	Brian Hamilton, Elias Moubayed
Spring 1986	Peter Stubley, Al McGowan
Winter 1986	Steve Pitkanen, Rob Baldassare
Fall 1985	Niraj Bhargava, André Roy
Spring 1985	Eric Nordin, Gord Strachan
Winter 1985	Lars Wilke, Fred van Biesen
Fall 1984	Frank Baylis
Winter 1984	Peter Hagar
Fall 1983	Mike Urlocker, Carlos Panksep
Winter 1983	Scott Sorli
Fall 1982	Arnim Litteck
Spring 1982	Dave Williams
Winter 1982	Dave Williams
Fall 1981	R.G. Franks, Jenny Thiers
Spring 1981	Kurt Mitchell, Paul Moore
Fall 1980	Kurt Mitchell, Andrew Klug