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The '''''Engineering Undergraduate Support Fund (EUSF)''''' is a student fee based fund dedicated to providing additional human resources relating to academics for engineering undergraduates. This includes positions that would otherwise be covered by the university, includeing but not limited to TA hours, lab technician hours, funding staff members of MESC and Departmental Offices, and more. The EUSF is to fund ''academic or professional development activities'' organized by the faculty, the departments, or departmental societies. It is composed of fees paid by engineering undergraduate students.
  
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'''Fifty percent''' of the fund is allocated to [[McGill Engineering Student Centre]] (MESC) proposals only and the remaining portion is for departmental proposals.  
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'''''The Library of Babel''''' is a short story by Argentine author and librarin Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible combinations of alphanumeric text. A splinterfan group has created a prototype of the idea at [http://libraryofbabel.info libraryofbabel.info].
 
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Borges' narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms, each of which contains the bare necessities for human survival—and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books is random and apparently completely meaningless, the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just 25 basic characters (22 letters, the period, the comma, and the space). Though the vast majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. The narrator notes that the library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages. Conversely, for many of the texts some language could be devised that would make it readable with any of a vast number of different contents.
 
  
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Departments will each receive a fixed allotment of 20% and a variable allotment that is proportional to [[Departmental Statistics|the fraction of the number of engineering students]] enrolled in the respective department. Money for a proposal can only be collected upon which proof that the proposal has been fulfilled is provided to the faculty finance manager.
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Despite—indeed, because of—this glut of information, all books are totally useless to the reader, leaving the librarians in a state of suicidal despair. This leads some librarians to superstitions and cult-like behaviours, such as the "Purifiers", who arbitrarily destroy books they deem nonsense as they scour through the library seeking the "Crimson Hexagon" and its illustrated, magical books. Others believe that since all books exist in the library, somewhere one of the books must be a perfect index of the library's contents; some even believe that a messianic figure known as the "Man of the Book" has read it, and they travel through the library seeking him.
 
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The story repeats the theme of Borges' 1939 essay "The Total Library" ("La biblioteca total"), which in turn acknowledges the earlier development of this theme by Kurd Lasswitz in his 1901 story "The Universal Library" ("Die Universalbibliothek"):
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EUSF is allocated at the beginning of each semester, once the semester starts and applications are released, proposals can be submitted to VP Academics of each department.
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There ''should'' be at least 5 members serving at the bar at a time; however less are needed in the first hour of Blues Pub on average.
 
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:Certain examples that Aristotle attributes to Democritus and Leucippus clearly prefigure it, but its belated inventor is Gustav Theodor Fechner, and its first exponent, Kurd Lasswitz. [...] In his book The Race with the Tortoise (Berlin, 1919), Dr Theodor Wolff suggests that it is a derivation from, or a parody of, Ramón Llull's thinking machine [...T]he elements of his game are the universal orthographic symbols, not the words of a language [...] Lasswitz arrives at twenty-five symbols (twenty-two letters, the space, the period, the comma), whose recombinations and repetitions encompass everything possible to express in all languages. The totality of such variations would form a Total Library of astronomical size. Lasswitz urges mankind to construct that inhuman library, which chance would organize and which would eliminate intelligence. (Wolff's The Race with the Tortoise expounds the execution and the dimensions of that impossible enterprise.)
 
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The '''''Engineering Undergraduate Support Fund''''' is allocated on a semesterly basis. Below you can find a general distribution of funds per semester per department. Hyperlinks in the table header will link to the specific semesterly allocation.
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{|class="wikitable sortable"
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!Department
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!Winter 2016
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!Fall 2016
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![[EUSF W17 Allocation|Winter 2017]]
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!Fall 2017
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|[[ASA|Architecture]]
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|4400
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|3897.51
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|3877.6
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|1020
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|-
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|[[ChESS|Chemical]]
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|11400
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|16085.44
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|13857.03
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|13850
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|-
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|[[CEUS|Civil]]
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|7500
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|11846.37
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|6588.09
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|8405.4
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|-
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|[[ECSESS|Electrical, Computer, & Software]]
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|19700
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|19081.76
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|17161.99
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|17856.5
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|-
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|[[MEUS|Materials]]
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|7600
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|5628.47
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|7570.59
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|7307.3
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|-
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|[[MAME|Mechanical]]
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|14700
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|14425.02
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|15867.85
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|9053.26
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|[[CMEUS|Mining]]
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|3800
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|3977.9
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|2797.26
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|2785.2
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|[[MESC]]
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|64600
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|63107.17
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|53220
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|58550
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|class="table-info"|Total
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|class="table-info"|133700
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|class="table-info"|138049.64
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|class="table-info"|120940.41
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|class="table-info"|118827.66
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Latest revision as of 16:48, 11 June 2022

This article is no longer being maintained, and only exists for archival purposes. Reason for archival: The EUSF was depreciated in 2022 after a student referendum.

Engineering Undergraduate Support Fund
Amount
Approximate per department
Bioengineering 3000$
Chemical Engineering 6000$
Civil Engineering 7000$
ECSESS 16000$
Mechanical Engineering 11000$
Mining Engineering 3500$
Materials Engineering 5000$
School of Architecture 4000$

The Engineering Undergraduate Support Fund (EUSF) is a student fee based fund dedicated to providing additional human resources relating to academics for engineering undergraduates. This includes positions that would otherwise be covered by the university, includeing but not limited to TA hours, lab technician hours, funding staff members of MESC and Departmental Offices, and more. The EUSF is to fund academic or professional development activities organized by the faculty, the departments, or departmental societies. It is composed of fees paid by engineering undergraduate students.

Breakdown

Fifty percent of the fund is allocated to McGill Engineering Student Centre (MESC) proposals only and the remaining portion is for departmental proposals.

Departments will each receive a fixed allotment of 20% and a variable allotment that is proportional to the fraction of the number of engineering students enrolled in the respective department. Money for a proposal can only be collected upon which proof that the proposal has been fulfilled is provided to the faculty finance manager.

Allocation

EUSF is allocated at the beginning of each semester, once the semester starts and applications are released, proposals can be submitted to VP Academics of each department.

The Engineering Undergraduate Support Fund is allocated on a semesterly basis. Below you can find a general distribution of funds per semester per department. Hyperlinks in the table header will link to the specific semesterly allocation.

Department Winter 2016 Fall 2016 Winter 2017 Fall 2017
Architecture 4400 3897.51 3877.6 1020
Chemical 11400 16085.44 13857.03 13850
Civil 7500 11846.37 6588.09 8405.4
Electrical, Computer, & Software 19700 19081.76 17161.99 17856.5
Materials 7600 5628.47 7570.59 7307.3
Mechanical 14700 14425.02 15867.85 9053.26
Mining 3800 3977.9 2797.26 2785.2
MESC 64600 63107.17 53220 58550
Total 133700 138049.64 120940.41 118827.66
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