Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering Student Society
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| Lounge Location: | Trottier 1060 |
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The Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering Student Society (ECSESS) is a student organization in the Department Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill. ECSESS is dedicated to improving student life and making students time in McGill Engineering as memorable as possible. ECSESS strives to provide the best for ECSE students by representing them on the department and faculty levels. We’re also committed to addressing academic concerns, organizing challenging and educational activities. We make our home in Trottier 1060. Our lounge has a foosball table, free coffee and tea, a PS4 and Xbox One and much more!
For more information, please visit our website and Facebook page.
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Social Events
First Year Welcome Party
Hosted during the first week of the Fall Semester, ECSESS invites all of its incoming U0/U1 students to its Welcome Party to congratulate them on their acceptance into McGill, to meet their student council, learn about opportunities to get involved within ECSE, enjoy some free food and meet their fellow classmates!
CoffeeHouse
ECSESS Coffee House is held twice a year in the EUS Common Room. Come warm up to a nice cup of coffee, have some sweets, and enjoy some of your classmates' amazing musical talents. (all acts are welcome!)
Blues Pub
Twice a year, ECSESS hosts a pub in the basement of the McConnell building, in the common room. Come enjoy a beverage and a grilled cheese, try your hand at our die games and socialize with fellow engineers and friengineers.
Banquet
Banquet is held twice a year, in a Montreal restaurant. It is a nice opportunity to wine and dine with your fellow classmates (and sometimes profs) and to finish off a semester in high spirits!
Pancake/Bagel Breakfast
Our famous pancake breakfast run several times per semester, in mornings and provides you with delicious breakfast food to fuel your hustle! You can grab and go to your early morning classes or enjoy your time at our lounge and chill with fellow ECSIES! You BUTTER come!
Menu:
- St. Viateur Bagels with butter or cream cheese or jam: $2
- Regular Pancakes: 2 for $1 or 5 for $2
- Chocolate Chip Pancakes: 2 for $1.50 or 5 for $2.50
- Blueberry Pancakes: 2 for $1.50 or 5 for $2.50
- Toppings (1 scoop of strawberries and 1 scoop of bananas): $0.50
~ Gluten free / vegan pancakes are available for the same prices, just ask the server! ~
- Coffee: 1$ (creamer, regular milk, soy milk and almond milk will have their presence)
- Orange juice: 1$
Trivia Night
Teams of 4 compete in a prize-filled trivia night with questions related to:
- ECSE Trivia
- McGill/EUS Trivia
- Geography
- Entertainment
- Food
Academic Events
Industry and Professor Speaker Series
Curious about what your professionals and professors do? The industry and professor speaker series are a great way to discover their passions! Come hear them speak about their education, career path, research and interests.
Academic Forum
Academic forum is a great place to voice your concerns, suggest improvements, and ask questions about your courses, curriculum, and workloads. ECSESS hosts the academic forum near the end of the Fall and Winter semesters.
The academic forum is another way that you can anonymously provide feedback that will be documented and relayed to the professors and academic advisors. An academic report is drafted by your VP academic and submitted to both the department and the VP Academic of the EUS. The comments noted here often affect how the curriculum is formed in the future, as well as cause change to class organization and workloads.
In attendance will be your Department Chair and Associate Chairs, as well as the Undergraduate Program Manager; sometimes professors will sit in on the forum too. This is a great opportunity not only to have your voice heard, but to hear how your peers are doing as well.
DPM Social
You think the labs were hard? Get ready for the group project!!! (Just kidding, you got this!)
ECSESS organizes its DPM Social twice a year, where you can mingle with your classmates and learn some tips and tricks on how to make it through the DPM project! We invite the course professors, TAs, and survivors from previous semesters. Free food and beverages are served.
Professional Events
Code.Jam()
CodeJam is a 48-hour team-based programming competition fueled by great minds and energy drinks. McGill University's ECSESS is collaborating with some of Montreal's biggest software companies to make a challenging, real-world application problem for you to solve. The yearly website can be found at codejam.mcgilleus.ca
ECSESScapade
Are you looking for an internship or a full-time job? Do you want to connect with the engineering industry? ECSESS offers you the opportunity to visit some awesome companies in Canadian cities of high tech industry. Companies in the past years included Shopify, Cisco, Ciena, Alcatel Lucent, IBM and more! Usually held in February, come join us and make connections and friends along the way!
Montreal Company Crawl
Looking for a job/internship in Montreal? Not sure which company has the best environment for you? ECSESS hosts two company crawls per year, where students go around to a few different companies and receive tours of the office and presentations on opportunities available for students. It's a great opportunity to present yourself to employers in person and make a great impression!
Speed Networking
ECSESS hosts two Speed Networking events in the Fall and Winter semesters respectively. We host representatives from tech companies that provide valuable information regarding the industry and working with them. It is an excellent opportunity to network with recruiters and secure internships or full-time jobs at some of your favorite companies.
Lounge
The ECSESS Lounge is located on the first floor of the Trottier building (TR 1060). It is open Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm. During those times, a member of the ECSESS Council will be hosting office hours and is available to answer questions, sell tickets for events or stamp posters so that they can be put on the Trottier bulletin boards.
Study Room Bookings
Study rooms on the fifth floor in Trottier can be booked by students. Rooms 5103, 5014, 5015, 5106, 5107 are available on bookings.mcgilleus.ca, access with a Google account. Every room comes with a conference table and a blackboard. Chalk can be requested from an ECSESS council member in the Lounge (TR 1060) at anytime between 10am-4pm. Room 5105 is the largest room and room 5103 is the smallest.
Student Council
The student council consists of an executive committee and yearly departmental representatives. The executives positions are:
- President,
- Vice President Finance,
- Vice President Internal,
- Vice President External,
- Vice President Academic Affairs,
- Vice President Administration,
- Vice President Communications,
- Vice President Technical Development.
The representatives positions consist of:
- U0 rep
- U1 EE Rep
- U1 CE Rep
- U1 SE Rep
- U2 EE Rep
- U2 CE Rep
- U2 SE Rep
- U3 EE Rep
- U3 CE Rep
- U3 SE Rep
- U4 EE Rep
- U4 CE Rep
- U4 SE Rep
History
| Position: | Name: |
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| President | Elie Elia |
| VP Finance | François-Eliott Rousseau |
| VP Internal | Dafne Culha |
| VP External | Laurie Zaccarin |
| VP Academic | Gabrielle Doucette-Poirier |
| VP Administration | Sabrina Chan |
| VP Communications | Massiva Mahamli |
| VP TechDev | Tyrone Wong |
| U0 Representative | Dina Shoham |
| U1 Electrical Engineering Representative | Nikhil Jebesh Moses |
| U1 Computer Engineering Representative | Ali Tahmasebi |
| U1 Software Engineering Representative | Amelia Cui |
| U2 Electrical Engineering Representative | Nicolas Bieber |
| U2 Computer Engineering Representative | Catherine Caron |
| U2 Software Engineering Representative | Katie Younge |
| U3 Electrical Engineering Representative | Evelyne Sanscartier |
| U3 Computer Engineering Representative | Paul Hooley |
| U3 Software Engineering Representative | Ammar Rudani |
| U4 Electrical Engineering Representative | Bogdan Dumitru |
| U4 Computer Engineering Representative | Ajay Patel |
| U4 Software Engineering Representative | Yuliya Volodina |
| Position: | Name: |
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| President | Catherine Vanasse Grosdidier |
| VP Finance | Alex Moreau |
| VP Internal | Anna Bieber |
| VP External | Cara Zhang |
| VP Academic | Evan Laflamme |
| VP Administration | Massy Mahamli |
| VP Communications | Elie Elia |
| VP TechDev | Erick Zhao |
| U0 Representative | Dina Shoham |
| U1 Electrical Engineering Representative | Dafne Culha |
| U1 Computer Engineering Representative | Christos Cunning |
| U1 Software Engineering Representative | Emile Brulé-Champagne |
| U2 Electrical Engineering Representative | Jude Habib |
| U2 Computer Engineering Representative | Paul Hooley |
| U2 Software Engineering Representative | Spencer Handfield |
| U3 Electrical Engineering Representative | Francois-Eliott Rousseau |
| U3 Computer Engineering Representative | Michael Vaquier |
| U3 Software Engineering Representative | Raphael Di Piazza |
| U4 Electrical Engineering Representative | Mohamed Reda El Khili |
| U4 Computer Engineering Representative (Mental Health Rep) | Gabrielle Doucette-Poirier |
| U4 Software Engineering Representative | Bogdan Dumitru |
Committees
Events Committee
The events committee is an extremely low commitment, yet valuable involvement opportunity (helping with 1 event per semester)! No previous experience whatsoever is needed for a position and it's a fun opportunity to meet other ECSIES!
Positions available are
- Banquet Coord: (1 person) 🍷🥂🍾
- Campus Events Coords: (1-2 people) 🥞☕️🍕
- Blues Pubs Coord (1 person) 🍻🥪🎲
- Crawls Coord (1 person) 🏠🚶♀️🍻
CodeJam Committee
The CodeJam committee is in charge of organizing and running CodeJam. The committee is part of the VP Technical Development's portfolio.
The organizing committee consists of the following sub-teams:
1)Finance💰💰🤑
2)Web 💻🖥
3)Marketing📢📺📱
4)Sponsorship 🗝🔑💸
5)Logistics 💪😎🙋
Clubs
ECSESS RoboElectronics is an organization aiming to teach McGill ECSE students basic hands on electrical and electronics skills. Through weekly workshops, they teach you everything you need to know in order to build and program your own autonomous robot. What’s more, an end of semester competition will tie everything in and allow you to measure your skills against your fellow classmates. By joining ECSESS RoboElectronics, you will gain: problem solving skills, the ability to work in teams in order to accomplish a complex task and, last but not least, technical knowledge not taught in class.
The Factory
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| Email: | thefactory@mcgilleus.ca |
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| Address: |
3630 University St. |
The Factory is a hardware design lab run by students, for students in the department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering at McGill University. The Factory is a dedicated space in room 0080 of the Trottier building for developing personal projects, gaining experience with the latest hardware, or just brainstorming ideas with fellow students. The Factory aims to foster an environment of innovation and collaboration where the resources are provided to make your ideas become a reality.
The Factory's managerial committee consists of:
Head Manager
Technical Director
Workshop Planner
Communications Manager
General Managers