Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering Student Society
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| Lounge: | Trottier 1060 |
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| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/ECSESS/ |
| Website: | https://ecsess.mcgilleus.ca/ |
| Email: | ecsess.vpcomm@mcgilleus.ca |
The Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering Student Society (ECSESS) is a student organisation representing over 1000 students within the Department of 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 aims to support its' students academically, professionally, technically and socially.
ECSESS strives to provide the best for ECSE students by representing them on the department and faculty levels and provide services and events for all of the students within our department. Our lounge in Trottier 1060 is a popular hangout place with couches, a foosball table, various video games, free coffee and tea and much more!
To stay up to date with our upcoming events, make sure to keep an eye out for our weekly newsletter, follow us on our Facebook page and join your respective year group on facebook! For more information, please visit our website and Facebook page.
Contents
Social Events
Every year we organise various events catering to our students' social needs! Attending our social events will only lead to great memories and friends! Our events include coffee houses, Blues Pubs, end-of semester banquets, trivia nights and apartment crawls!
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! 🍕
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! Gluten free and vegan pancakes are available for the same prices as well. You BUTTER come!
Menu: 🥞
- Regular Pancakes: 2 for $1 or 5 for $2
- Toppings (strawberries, bananas or chocolate chips): $0.50
- Coffee: 1$ (creamer, regular milk, soy milk and almond milk will have their presence)
Coffee House
ECSESS Coffee House is held 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. Everyone is welcome to perform any and all acts too!
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.
Trivia Night
Teams of 4 compete in a prize and fun filled trivia night with questions related to topics such as ECSE, McGill, EUS, Geography and Entertainment! 📺 Free food is served and good times are guaranteed!
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) to celebrate the end of the year with good food! The evening starts off with a fine dining experience and ends with an after-party with all EUS departments! 💃
Wine and Cheese
It's everyone's favourite event: Wine & Cheese!!!🍷🧀 Every year, ECSESS organises a wine and cheese to mingle with fellow students AND profs on the Mezzanine and to suppy you with wine, cheese and charcuterie along with non-alcoholic and vegan options!
Year Group Events
Towards the end of every semester, ECSESS class representatives organise class socials targeting a specific year group! Previous events have included laser tag, movie nights, wing nights and board games nights! 🎳
ECSperting Beer Die (BDIE 101)
Ever been to Blues Pub and are confused by the game played at the tables? 🎲 Do you wonder why people are yelling "WAH" and spitting out dice? Do you hope to someday master the Engineer's game? Well, it all starts here. ECSESS provides beer die ECSperts for you to master the ins, outs, and wahs of the glorious game just in time for our Fall and Winter ECSESS Blues Pub. Students from other departments are also welcome to come and learn! We provide free drinks, snacks, and music at our event. After a quick ECSplanation, you get hands-on experience in matches with other first-timers!
Academic Events
In terms of academics, we voice all concerns and suggestions to the department and aim to connect you with your professors by hosting events like Academic Forums and Professor Speaker Series.
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.
Networking Events
Building networks and helping you land internships and jobs are also big parts of our mission so we organise events like Company Crawls, Speed Networking and our annual industry trip ECSESSCapade!
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.
Technical 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
Technical Workshops
We organise many workshops to help you excel in your classes and in the industry! Previous workshops have included coding language workshops, mini competitions in collaboration with companies (hardware, consulting, etc) and mock technical interviews. 💪
ECSESS Merch
Ever seen cute ECSESS/ECSE stickers on other people's laptops? Or people wearing nice McGill Engineering / ECSE hoodies / t-shirts etc? You can get free ECSESS stickers from our lounge or purchase nice clothing and patches to rep your department from the apparel sales we hold!
ECSESS Apparel Sale
We host two apparel sales in our Academic Year.👚👕🧢 Our first sale is hosted in November of the Fall Semester and our second sale is hosted in March of the Winter Semester. ECSESS offers two clothing brands in its apparel sale: Gildan and Bella Canvas. There are zip ups , hoodies, crew necks, t-shirts , long sleeve shirts and sweatpants available for Gildan. Zip ups, hoodies, crew necks and baseball tees available for Bella Canvas.
Cash payments are done in the ECSESS Lounge (TR 1060) between 10AM to 4PM or through the Typeform secure online payment. SAMPLES are available to try on in the lounge (TR 1060) from 10AM to 4PM throughout the year. And best off all, ECSESS subsidizes the tax amount for all undergraduate students!
Student Spaces and Services
ECSESS tries to provide comfortable spaces for our students in our building Trottier. We are in charge of bookings of 5th floor rooms, our lounge in Trottier 1060 and our hardware design lab Factory!
The 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. We have comfy couches, various video games, a foosball table, free tea and more! It is a popular hangout place for our students to chill between their classes. Please don't be shy and come take advantage of this great service.
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| Email: | thefactory@mcgilleus.ca |
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| Address: | Trottier Building 0080 |
The Factory
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 an Head Manager, Technical Director, Workshop Planner, Communications Manager and General Managers.
5th Floor Study Rooms
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 | Dafne Culha |
| VP Finance | Ali Tahmasebi |
| VP Internal | Alena Midgen |
| VP External | Katie Younge |
| VP Academic | Kenz Zaghib |
| VP Administration | Melissa Hawley |
| VP Communications | Ricky Liu |
| VP TechDev | Alex Lam |
| U0 Representative | |
| U1 Electrical Engineering Representative | |
| U1 Computer Engineering Representative | |
| U1 Software Engineering Representative | |
| U2 Electrical Engineering Representative | Matthew Zeitouni |
| U2 Computer Engineering Representative | Ben St-Laurent |
| U2 Software Engineering Representative | Adel Ahram |
| U3 Electrical Engineering Representative | Julie Bellia |
| U3 Computer Engineering Representative | Catherine Caron |
| U3 Software Engineering Representative | Nicolas Bieber |
| U4 Electrical Engineering Representative | Laurie Zaccarin |
| U4 Computer Engineering Representative (Mental Health Rep) | |
| U4 Software Engineering Representative |
| 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
First Year Council
The ECSESS First Year Council was established in 2019, named ECSESSBits. It is overseen by a U1 ECSESS Council Representative and the ECSESS VP Adminstration. It is in charge of organising and running events specifically tailored to our first year ECSE students.
| Positions | Names |
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| Co-Chairs | Amelia Cui, Anthony Dagher |
| VP External | Adel Ahram, Kevin Xu |
| VP Comms | Ricky Liu |
| VP Internal | Alena Midgen |
| VP Events | David Deng, Namdar Kabolinejad |
Events Committee
The events committee is an extremely low commitment, yet valuable involvement opportunity and it's a fun opportunity to meet other ECSIES!
Positions available are
- Banquet Coord 🍷🥂🍾
- Campus Events Coords 🥞☕️🍕
- Blues Pubs Coord 🍻🥪🎲
- Crawls Coord 🏠🚶♀️🍻
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:
- Finance💰💰🤑
- Web 💻🖥
- Marketing📢📺📱
- Sponsorship 🗝🔑💸
- Logistics 💪😎🙋
Clubs
RoboElectronics
ECSESS RoboElectronics is an organisation 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.
Funding
ECSESS Initiative Fund
The ECSESS Initiative Fund finances ECSE students that wish to participate in competitions, conferences, work on personal projects and organize events such as workshops.
Please read through all of the following guidelines before applying:
a) You must be enrolled in electrical, computer or software engineering
b) Any conference, competition, project or event that you are applying for must be related to electrical, computer or software engineering
c) Funding of salaries will not be granted (for example, to pay independent developers, or to fund your research with a professor)
d) Funding of personal meals will not be granted in applications for trips.
e) If applying for a competition or conference, you must show that you have researched and applied for any aid offered by the competition or conference.
f) If applying for a competition or conference for an amount of over $75, you must have applied to the SSMU Ambassador fund first.
g) You must adequately demonstrate your need for the aid and clearly show the exact budget breakdown
If applying for a competition or conference, you are highly encouraged to apply to the SSMU Ambassador fund first. If applying to organize an event or workshop, you are highly encouraged to apply to the SSMU Campus Life Fund first. The ECSESS Initiative Fund will then cover any remaining costs.
Applications will be reviewed by the ECSESS Initiative Fund Committee. You can expect a decision on your application within the next two weeks after it has been received. Your request for funding may be fully accepted, partially accepted or denied. If accepted, you will be required to submit a report detailing the actual expenses and including all receipts and proof of sponsorship acknowledgment if applicable. Once these receipts have been approved by the committee and processed, you will be able to pick up a cheque at the EUS office for the amount approved by the committee.
For questions, please contact:
ECSESS President, ecsess.president@mcgilleus.ca
ECSESS VP Finance, ecsess.vpfinance@mcgilleus.ca
ECSESS Equity Representative, equity.ecse@mcgilleus.ca
ECSESS Bursaries
ECSESS bursaries make our events more accessible to everyone by offering half-price tickets. We have limited funds so we ask that you are as honest as possible in your application and only apply if you would not be able to attend the event without this aid.
Your identity and any information that you disclose to us will be reviewed by the ECSESS President and the ECSESS Equity Rep. It will be kept completely confidential.
For questions, please contact:
ECSESS President, ecsess.president@mcgilleus.ca
ECSESS Equity Representative, equity.ecse@mcgilleus.ca