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Engineering Undergraduate Society of McGill University

VP External

Midterm Report

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Philippe Voyer

2021-2022

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My Role

  • Represent McGill with external organizations (QCESO, CFES)

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  • Oversee MEC, EngGames and Departmental VP Externals

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  • Select McGill delegates for CFES and QCESO conferences

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The VP External portfolio

CFES

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MEC

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Departments VPX

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QCESO

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Eng Games

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Corporate Relations

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Slide stolen from Anne-Julie’s midterm report…

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CFES

Canadian Federation of Engineering Students

  • Canada-wide engineering association
  • 52 members (EUS is one of them)
  • Advocacy, Events, Exchange of ideas
  • General assemblies
    • I vote on behalf of the EUS

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  • Canadian Engineering Competition
  • Conference on Sustainability in Engineering
  • Canadian Engineering Leadership Conference

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CFES

What happened so far?

Bootcamp

  • First ever Bootcamp
  • Virtual GA workshop
  • Action plan for CFES execs

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Conference on Diversity in Engineering

  • 4 delegates attended!

President’s meeting

  • Bylaws amendments
  • Pre-Conference video mandate
  • Motion for the review of external partners

Canadian Engineering Leadership Conference

  • 2 weekends in January
  • EUS members attended
  • Motion to allow board to approve social issues stances on behalf of the CFES
  • Budget ratification
  • Officer voting and conference bids
  • Motion for a Conference on Engineering Design and Technology

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Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Maintained good relations with other schools
  • Saving money (online)
  • EUS participation at GAs
  • Low involvement from Qc members
  • Not many EUS members applying for conferences
  • L6S cancelled

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QCESO

Quebec Confederation for Engineering Student Outreach

  • Quebec-wide engineering association
  • 12 members (EUS is one of them)
  • Advocacy, Events, Exchange of ideas
  • General assemblies
    • I vote on behalf of the EUS

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  • Quebec Engineering Competition
  • Engineering Games

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QCESO

What happened so far?

Summer Retreat

  • Online
  • Motion to create a working group on gun violence

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Eng Games cancelled

  • it iz wuht it iz :(

General Meeting 1

  • Online
  • Super fast GA

Quebec Engineering Competition

  • 16 McGill students attended
  • 1st place in Senior Design 🌟
  • 2nd place in Consulting 🔥
  • QEC 4.0 Award

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General Meeting 2

  • Hosted by Poly in person
  • Motion to create a working group on sustainability in engineering

Online Learning Survey

  • Gathering data for advocacy and working group

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Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Maintained good relations with other schools
  • A lot of involvement from members
  • We destroyed at QEC
  • Eng Games cancelled
  • Translation issue at QEC
  • Zoom fatigue

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MEC

McGill Engineering Competition

  • EUS Committee that organizes an Eng competition
  • Happened in November
  • Winners go to Quebec Engineering Competition

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  • Many disciplines:
    • Consulting
    • Junior & Senior Design
    • Scientific Communication
    • Re-Engineering

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Strengths and Weaknesses

  • In person!
  • Event went really well
  • Had good funding
  • Organizing committee was on point

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  • Chair ghosted the committee :(
  • No participants in a few categories

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EngGames

McGill Delegation for the Quebec Engineering Games

  • EUS Committee that forms delegation for the Quebec Engineering Games
  • 46 delegates from McGill (400+ total)

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  • Many aspects:
    • Social events
    • Competitions (academic, robotics, entrepreneurship)
    • Swag

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EngGames

What happened so far?

Blood drive

  • Went super well 🩸

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Eng Games

  • Supposed to happen in January before e-week
  • Cancelled :(

Quidditch event

  • Happened in person at Jeanne-Mance Park
  • Had BEvERage sponsors

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Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Delegation was able to attend events in the fall sem.
  • Blood drive and quidditch went really well
  • Lots of participation and hype

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  • Event cancelled for a second year in a row :(

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Dept. VPX

Departmental VP Externals & Corporate Relations Director

  • Meetings with the departments’ VP Externals, the Corporate Relations director and myself
  • Started 2 years ago

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  • Share plans for the year
  • Organize events for the year
  • EUS Networking Event 2021

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Dept. VPX

EUS Networking Event 2021

  • Hosted a big collaborative networking event with all departments on Zoom
  • 200+ participants
  • 50+ company representatives / guests / alumni

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Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Networking Event was a huge success
  • Motivated to host events together

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  • Not a lot of involvement from the CRD

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Corporate Relations

Corporate Relations Director

  • Corporate Relations Director
  • Under VP External and VP Finance portfolio

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  • Form partnerships with companies
  • Help EUS groups reach out to companies

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Strengths and Weaknesses

  • CRD was able to sign deals with a few companies

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  • I was not involved in the corporate relations portfolio - the CRD worked more with VP Finance

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Plans until May

  • Coordinate our participation to CEC
  • More participation with CFES and QCESO affairs
  • More promo for conferences
  • Work to improve participation from QC schools in CFES affairs
  • More work on corporate relations
  • Choose committee chairs for next year

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Questions?

Thank you!