Connor Olsen for VPE

Describe yourself

• I am currently the VP Internal of CES
• I have awesome denim
• My favourite metal is brass
• I am your only choice for VP External…
  • If we don’t elect a VP External, we can say goodbye to:
    • Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC)
    • Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC)
    • All provincial Inter School Events (ESSCO)
    • All national Inter School Events (CFES)
    • National Engineering Month Rube Goldberg Machine (RGM)
    • (So you should probably vote for me)

Executive roles and course work are both very time consuming. How do you plan on managing your time?

• I’ll just not sleep.

What goals and initiatives do you have for CES?

• Start a Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) team for the competition being held in London in 2014 so five of us can go barrelling down a hill in nothing but a roll cage and concrete running surfaces – this is the longest engineering design competition in Canada and we need to start going! (Yes, that is Rick Mercer at the front of the sled)

• Look into hosting an Engineering Student Societies’ Council of Ontario conference, this will help expand our validity as a program with our peers and the local community
• Get more involved with the community so that we can educate them on our awesome program and how we are all the best thing ever, hopefully gaining recognition as a program, sponsorships and even attract more co-op employers

• Organize and take part in inter school events like pub crawls, plant tours, D.U.S.T.E.D. and all that stuff with other engineering schools
• Bring students who haven’t been to an inter-school conference out to one if they’re interested
• Have our own Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) qualifier, which has rules and stuff
• Even though it has nothing to do with me, I want to smash a car to bits with Eng. Soc. Next year

This is a volunteer position with a lot of responsibilities and it is important that you are motivated. Explain why you are interested in this position?

• I am currently the VP Internal of CES
• I have awesome denim
• My favourite metal is brass
• I am your only choice for VP External…
  • If we don’t elect a VP External, we can say goodbye to:
    • Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC)
    • Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC)
    • All provincial Inter School Events (ESSCO)
    • All national Inter School Events (CFES)
    • National Engineering Month Rube Goldberg Machine (RGM)
    • (So you should probably vote for me)

Have you read the constitution?

• Yes, I helped do the big rewrite last summer and I’m sure we will be attending to it again this summer

Have you been attending meetings?

• Yes, my current exec position forces me to

How do you think you can help CES achieve its mission statement?

• I have been learning about the VP External role for a long time now, and I am quite confident that I can step up to fill the position as required by the constitution as well as expand our social and professional horizons through exciting stuff already mentioned

Alyssa Ryzebol for President

Executive roles and course work are both very time consuming. How do you plan on managing your time?

What goals and initiatives do you have for CES?

Sonny Modi for VPI

Describe yourself

• I am culturally diverse
• All my decisions (which are awesome by the way) are guided by the code of engineering ethnics
• I am a hardworking and motivated student who possesses great leadership and management skills.

Executive roles and course work are both very time consuming. How do you plan on managing your time?

• I am currently apart of the 3.5 cohort and am taking 4th year courses during the winter and spring term. This will give me a reduce course load in 4th year thus giving me more opportunity to do stuff for CES and the MSE student body.
• In conclusion I have time so vote for me!

What goals and initiatives do you have for CES?

• To continue to develop the VPI role in order to get a more structured approach to getting events set up and having students involved in making events a success (directors for events)

Explain how you are qualified for the position?

• I talk good English (I swear!)
• I have ideas, big and small that we can look into for events
• I enjoy getting to know new people and I know how important events that CES host are to bring all years of the MSE program together. I would love to continue that tradition with the current and new MSE students next year.

This is a volunteer position with a lot of responsibilities and it is important that you are motivated. Explain why you are interested in this position?

• I am only running for VPI (unlike my competition) because it’s the position that suits all my greatest strength. I have great management and leadership skills and very strong communication skills.
• I am also an extremely friendly and down to earth person that can get along with a wide variety of personalities. VPI will allow me to meet with the students in all the years and get feedback that I can present during meetings on what direction we should have for events.
• Also I have time and we need a more diverse CES committee.

Have you read the constitution?

• …(Goes to read constitution)
• Yes

Have you been attending meetings?

• Since CES has formed I have attended quite a few meetings but not as many as I would have liked this year due to Thursday being the longest day in the 3.5 schedule.

How do you think you can help CES achieve its mission statement?

• Autocratic Democratic leadership to serve the MSE student body the best to make it a kick ass year!

Reid Bernhardt for President and VPI

Describe yourself

• I’m a recent grad of University of Waterloo with a degree in Psychology
• I’m awesome, true story

Executive roles and course work are both very time consuming. How do you plan on managing your time?

• I’m a hard worker, and work well under pressure.

What goals and initiatives do you have for CES?

• I want there to be more events for the students, both by making it easier and encouraging students to plan events for the rest of the program, and for CES to be integrated more with the other nearby Engineering societies, to bring more events to our students that would be impossible for us to host because of our small size.

Explain how you are qualified for the position?

• I have 2 years of experience on a student council, being the Treasurer for the UW Psychology Society
• I have good organizational and planning skills

This is a volunteer position with a lot of responsibilities and it is important that you are motivated. Explain why you are interested in this position?

• I’ve always been interested in school involvement, through high school, and university, and being a class representative this year.
• I want to see our program and society grow and want to facilitate this process to the best of my abilities

Have you read the constitution?

• Yes

Have you been attending meetings?

• Yes

How do you think you can help CES achieve its mission statement?

• By being awesome 24/7, true story.

Derek Scholfield for President and VPI

Express Yourself…

Derek, a cat enthusiast who survived a Cambridge, ON, garage fire in 2009 after running into the flames to pull his five kittens out of the burning structure, has been treated for severe burn injuries the last few months. He lived with his adoptive family for more than 5 months after the ordeal recovering from the burns.

He made local headlines following the incident that left him badly burned. He required ongoing care as a result of his injuries, and was also diagnosed with a heart murmur.

On the day of the blaze, firefighter David Giannelli spotted the young man after he was seen touching each of his 4-week-old kittens with his nose, to make sure that his litter was safe, and then falling unconscious. He took the cats to North Shore Animal League America for treatment and Derek to St. Mary’s.

After a three-month recovery period, the cats were ready for to go home. Derek was returned to them after 5 months in the Burns Victim Unit at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto.

The North Shore Animal League created a heroism award in Derek’s name and recently unveiled The Derek Room, an online site showcasing animals in the organization’s sponsor program. Story courtesy North Shore Animal League

He also likes beer, water skiing, and going to the gym.

Executive roles and course work are both very time consuming. How do you plan on managing your time?

The same way you eat an elephant, one bite at a time!

What goals and initiatives do you have for CES?

• To hold our own awesome events, separate from other schools, to develop our own society and program/school spirit.
• Scholarships awarded through CES on behalf of companies
• Free food or drinks at events, because the society should do for you, not you for the society.
• Fundraising from companies in the area(much like Nascar)
• Accountability for executives
• Pre-planning
• Free T shirts each year(Free stuffs awesome)
• Free popcorn once a month(Popcorns awesome)

Explain how you are qualified for the position?

I shot a bear and I made it into a rug.

I am not arrogant, condescending, or impatient, but I am headstrong, and defiant in the face of impossibility. This means I will listen to your ideas, and if I believe in them, never give up. Do you want someone to fight for your voice?

This is a volunteer position with a lot of responsibilities and it is important that you are motivated. Explain why you are interested in this position?

Connections, management experience and a reference.

Have you read the constitution?

Yes, have you?…

Have you been attending meetings?

Yes

How do you think you can help CES achieve its mission statement?

My caucus will bring forth a new era of leadership to unite the society behind a banner of pride, power and proficiency among our peers!

Gregory Burns for VPO

My name is Greg Burns and I am heading into 3^rd year of MSE. I have a beard and I kind of look like a lumberjack. I am a Star Wars fan, but enjoy a good Star Trek or BSG episode here and there. My favourite colour is green and my favourite superhero is Green Lantern. During the past year in CES I was the director of Brewery Tours, hence my other name, Brew King, I was director of finding a conference mascot, which many of you have met, THE NUT, and put together weekly crosswords for your enjoyment. I am approachable, interested in various engineering disciplines and very excited to be sharing my talents with CES for you!

I have already been involved in CES, fitting it in my life with school work. I find the break from school work as an enjoyable and productive procrastination technique. Just like any project when the due date is fast approaching you crunch hard to get it done. This is what us engineering students are known for. I am sure I will have a few more sleepless nights due to this position next year, but I’ll love every minute (except the morning). As well, I am working for the college this summer and winter, so I will be close for the entire year.

Specifically for VPO I want to complete the job description by the book. I want to maintain finances, meeting minutes, swag and the website. Now I do want some help on this so, DIRECTOR’S ASSEMBLE! I want our finances to be more transparent. This would come in a monthly update to both our council and the students once a month in the weekly update, a full budget with the monthly spending report showing where your money goes. I would like to begin our annuity with a combination of secure GICs (Guaranteed Investment Certificates) and larger return mutual funds. I would like to make our SWAG more available with the office selling items at least once every week at lunch. Finally in the VPO position I would work to garner more support from the local community and alumni in the form of donations and sponsorships.

Outside of the VPO position I want to see the continuation of the brewery tours, the expansion of student engineering teams such as Concrete Toboggan and more local outreach such as the Waterloo Regional Food Bank’s CanStruction event.

I think the number one thing that qualifies me for this position is the drive I have for CES to succeed. I so badly want CES to succeed as a society and become a vibrant participant on the provincial level that I will do anything to see this through. Other qualifications I have towards this position is my past experience with CES. Even though I have only been involved for the past year, I have been a class rep, and taken on many directorships such as Brewery Tours and finding a conference mascot. Other experiences I have are estimating various projects such as a bar investment, regular party estimates, and managing my high school’s music departments bank accounts which totalled over $30,000. Overall I think I am very qualified for this position, but I also know there is still much to learn.

I am interested in becoming more involved in CES. I want to help CES continue to be successful and expand. I am interested in getting to know everyone better in the society especially the new frosh coming in September.

I read the constitution last year when it was first released. There is still much to add and perfect in our constitution and I look forward to participating in its review over the summer.

I have been attending meetings for the past year dedicatedly. I usually have a lot to say at meetings and have been regularly a part of the agenda for the past few months.

I hope to help the CES continue to bring in speakers to broaden our views. To increase the quality of our speakers we may need to sponsor speakers. As well, I would like to help bring a conference to Conestoga. This will allow our students access to networking opportunities with other engineering schools.