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WHAT IS WESST
OUR GOAL
ORIGIN STORY

The Western Engineering Student Societies' Team (WESST) is an alliance of engineering student societies across western Canada. We consist of eleven member societies from eleven engineering programs.

WESST helps its member societies share expertise on organizing events, managing budgets and services for undergraduate engineering students.

WESST provides an environment for member schools to exchange information and resources for the benefit of student leaders across western Canada.

 

It also provides as unified voice of engineering students in Western Canada, representing its member schools to other student societies, industry, professional associations, and to the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES).

WESST was formalized in 1993 at the Western Engineering Competition, hosted by the University of Saskatchewan.

 

 Student representatives from all the accredited Western Canadian Engineering Schools within four provinces decided on the need to form an alliance of all their undergraduate students’ societies.

WESST Events

Leadership in engineering & advocacy
Development summit

september 2024, 
Regina, SK

WESST Leadership in Engineering & Advocacy Development Summit (LEADS) is a four-day conference held in October. It serves as a time for new engineering students to make new connections in addition to the two-day plenary session, and election of new executive officers.

Engineering Executives leadership assembly 

MAy 2025,
Canmore, BC

The WESST Engineering Executives Leadership Assembly (EELA) is an annual three-day conference that brings together students from universities across western Canada. This provides an excellent opportunity for students to collaborate and share insight on a variety of topics.

Western Engineering Competition

January 2025,  
Saskatoon, sk

The Western Engineering Competition (WEC) was founded in 1985 and brought together the leading students from across Western Canada to practice and exhibit their problem solving, team-building, and communication skills in seven different events.

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