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Conferences
From time to time student and professional groups will organize conferences and invite delegates from all of their member schools. These conferences can take the form of just about everything from specific topics like Women in Engineering at the National Conference on Women in Engineering (NCWIE) to annual general meetings of bodies like ESSCO and CFES. Delegates are chosen from the applicants received by the VP External of each respective society.
Delegates will spend their time at conferences attending workshops, listening to speakers, networking with delegates from other schools, participating in group discussions, and attending the occasional social event in the evening. Through all of these activities, the students have the opportunity to learn about various organizations and their roles. By networking with delegates from other schools students often learn about things such as: activities that engineering students often participate in at other schools, subsequent opportunities to network with other schools, and skills that can help them succeed academically and professionally in their career.
The acronyms of the organizations of which Waterloo is a member are:
To learn more about each organization, click on their name!
The conferences that Waterloo Engineering is represented at each year are:
1) CFES Congress
Attended by: VP External, X Delegates
Date: January
The flagship event of the CFES, Congress serves as both the Annual General Meeting of the Federation, as well as a leadership development forum for engineering students from across Canada. Congress is typically held in the first week or January, spanning a full week of leadership development sessions, informational presentations, guest speakers from industry, a career fair and culminating in plenary, the decision making body of the CFES. At congress, the CFES National Executive and other officer positions are elected, and bids are made to host other CFES activities.
2) CFES Presidents' Meeting
Attended by: VP External
Date: September
CFES Presidents' meeting is a conference usually attended by the VP Externals from each membered society. It is called the Presidents' Meeting because it is a meeting called by the President of the CFES. This conference is used as a interim meeting for the CFES Executives and Commissioners to show the membered schools the progress they have made so far. It gives the VP Externals a chance to hold the CFES Executive and Commissioners accountable. Since there is a plenary at this conference, mandates can be made for actions to be completed before CFES Congress. This confrence also facilitates discussion about CFES Congress and what sessions/events we would like to see.
3) ESSCO Annual General Meeting
Attended by: VP External, X Delegates
Date: May/June
The Annual General Meeting allows the representatives from all members active in ESSCO to come together, bring forth ideas, and brainstorm possible opportunities to promote engineering, the PEO and OSPE.This information is communicated to the VP Externals at each society. The hope is that VP Externals, in representing their institutions, not stop at communicating the doingsof external organizations to their schools. Instead, it is expected that they also act as a meansfor the ideas and innovations of engineering students at their schools to reach the proper external organizations, and hopefully comeinto execution. Students often possess inspirational suggestions for the betterment of engineering education, of ESSs, or pursuit of a P. Eng, or engineering advocacy. Many are unaware of where to go withtheir ideas, or even unaware of the possibility of having their ideas come into execution. The Annual General Meeting provides the means, and the information for EngSocs across Ontario to successfully run their societies.
4) ESSCO Presidents' Meeting
Attended by: VP External, President
Date: September/October
ESSCO Presidents' Meeting is a conference where the VP Externals and the President`s of each membered society in Ontario gather for a weekend. The main point of this conference is the continual facilitation of communication between each school`s engineering society.This conference is used as a interim meeting for the ESSCO Executives a to show the membered schools the progress they have made so far. It gives the VP Externals a chance to hold the CFES Executive accountable on their mandates.
5) First Year Integration Conference
Attended by: VP External, X Delegates
Date: January/February
First year engineering students from across the province attend this event with the goal of networking, interacting with professional engineering organizations, becoming more involved, and learning about everything the engineering profession and ESSCO has to offer.
6) National Conference of Women in Engineering
Attended by: Women in Engineering Directors, X Delegates
Date: November
The goal of the National Conference of Women in Engineering is to bring together the Women in Engineering groups at each CFES membered school nation wide. The conference is full of infuential female speakers as well as sessions aimed at addressing the problems that occur with women in engineering today. This conference is for both genders as the problems with women in engineering affect both males and females.
7) PEO Student's Conference
Attended by: VP External, X Delegates
Date: November
The Professional Engineers Ontario Student Conference (PEO-SC) is an annual conference where brilliant minds meet to share ideas and collectively reflect on current engineering issues and topics. Featuring eminent industry professionals and renowned keynote speakers, PEO-SC reaches out to talented and ambitious delegates from the sixteen (16) Engineering faculties across the province. Our collective goal is to aid in the professionalism and success of these motivated students by introducing them to the profession of engineering and the responsibilities and powers that come along with it. .