WESST

A big thank-you to the University of Manitoba and specifically the WEC 2010 organizing committee for their commitment and hard work. The top results of the competitions are summarized below.

Impromptu Debate
3rd Place – University of British Columbia, Jose Luis Lopez, Amanda Li
2nd Place – University of Alberta, Seth Jansen, Sarah-Jane Laxdal
1st Place – University of British Columbia, Sean Heisler, Fraser Macdonald

Engineering Communications
3rd Place – University of British Columbia, Shahrzad Pedram, Building Envelopes in the Canadian Climate
2nd Place – University of Saskatchewan, Roman Nahachewsky, Evolution of Lunar Base
1st Place – University of Calgary, John McDonald and Kasmira Pawa, Engineering the Human Race: Xenotransplantation

Innovative Design
3rd Place – University of British Columbia, Tagg Jefferson and Lin Watt, Nymph Design Summary
2nd Place –British Columbia Institute of Technology, Stephen McMillan, The Design and Manufacturer of an Innovative Bicycle Pedal
1st Place – University of Manitoba, Josh Campbell, Development, Design and Prototyping of a Series-Drive Hybrid Transmission

Consulting Engineering
3rd Place – University of British Columbia, Brittany Ewert Chris Chan, Kevin Bergen, Kimberly Dioszeghy
2nd Place – University of Alberta, Andrew Malcolm, Mark Hlady, Claire Smith, Robbie Hames
1st Place – University of Saskatchewan, Chelsea Ebert, Scott Churchill, Katelyn Frecon, Jesse Shields

Junior Team Design
3rd Place – University of Manitoba, Colin Richards, Dan Nenadov, Kaitlynn Meadows, John Grogan
2nd Place – University of Saskatchewan, Ehran Gadzella, Michael Boyko, Tessa Lennox, Colin Pitman
1st Place – Simon Fraser University, Clark Hsieh, Michael Phang, Sherman Slu, Alvin To

Senior Team Design
3rd Place – University of Manitoba, Chris Robak, Romain Coudiere, Jacob Snell, Nikou Jalayeri
2nd Place – University of British Columbia, Kevin Baillie, Lok Tin Lam, Howard Hu, Alim Jiwa
1st Place – University of British Columbia, Robert Orlando, Justin Stevens, Andrew Carne, Eric Pospisil

Excellence Award – University of British Columbia

Hello all,

The minutes from today’s Administrative Council meeting can be found here:

They are also posted under the Documents section on the website.

Cheerio, Claire

Hello all,

Yes folks it’s January again which means WESST Executive Transitions, CFES Congress, and WEC. Our incoming executive: Morgan Tien (President), Claire Smith (VP Communications) and Nicole Winstanley (VP Finance) are excited to be leading the wild WESST in 2010. With Congress behind us and WEC fast approaching, the executive welcomes any feedback or questions. Check out the Executive page for contact info.

See you soon in Winnipeg!

Hi Everyone,

The meeting minutes from tonight’s Administrative Council meeting can be found here.

Also, the motions passed from WESST Retreat at our AGM are finally posted online here.

As always, they are posted under the documents page for future reference as well.

Cheers,

Jordan

Hi WESST,

You can find the executive meeting minutes from tonight’s meeting here. Keep your eyes open for an email with an administrative council meeting soon.

Also, if you have any t-shirt design ideas for Congress 2010, send them to us before December 1st so we can have a chance to go over each submission, and get them printed before Hamilton.

Cheers,

Jordan

WESST Retreat & Olympics 2009 registration is now closed.

Questions? Please contact president@wesst.ca.

Hi Everyone,

Here are tonight’s meeting minutes.

A general summary of the meeting:
- Travel Subsidies Report is coming along. Review of the first draft is done and will be sent out to the rest of the committee at large for final review by next Tuesday
- WESST Retreat is coming together in a timely fashion. Delegate packages should be out soon.
- Shahrzad will draft the CFES Regional Agreement and send it out for review before PM.

Ciao,

Jordan

Hi Everyone,

You can find the minutes from tonight’s meeting here, and under the “Documents” Header.

Please note that we are still missing member updates from U of M, SFU, and UNBC, so please get those submitted ASAP.

Cheers,

Jordan

Hi Everyone,

Based on the Doodle Poll, our WESST member meeting will be at 9:00 PM MDT/8:00 PM PDT on September 3rd, 2009. The meeting will be held on Skype. If you haven’t already, please add shahrzi (Shahrzad) to your contacts list.

Meeting minutes from tonight’s executive meeting can also be found here, and under the “Documents” header.

See you on Thursday!

Jordan

Hi WESST!

I hope everyone’s had both a productive and relaxing summer. Here’s a bit of an update what’s happening at the end of the summer:

1. WESST Online Meeting

This is an opportunity for everyone meet before the start of classes. Please respond to the online Doodle Poll to state your availability for our next SKYPE meeting by Monday, August 31st at the latest.

2. WESST Website is live

Thanks to much effort throughout the entire summer, the new WESST website (www.wesst.ca) has gone live. Check it out, as future updates will be published both through the external mailing lists as well as through the website. There is now a mobile version optimized for smart phones such as iPhones, Blackberries, and Android too. As always, please let me know if there are any other suggestions you would like to see in terms of functionality or content by the website, or if you notice any bugs at all.

3. Website Account info

Each school, as well as the Retreat and WEC chairs, should have received account information, so that they may each post their own relevant external information to the WESST website in addition to the WESST link emails. Anyone may register as a subscriber, too. Please let me know if you have trouble accessing your account.

4. Publications

There is now a page for Engineering Publications, as suggested by the Publications WESST EM workshop. This is so that we may provide a method to share our works, as well as provide submission contacts for each engineering school. Each school should have the contact information of their publication’s editor by the online meeting, so that I may start assembling the gallery.

Cheers,

Jordan