Senior Executive Elections 2024/2025
All information regarding elections can be found in our Policy Manual and Constitution. For questions regarding the election, please email Jillian Cairns at jcairns@ualberta.ca or eeclub@ualberta.ca. The election forum will be held Tuesday, March 5th, at 6 pm. Voting takes place from March 6th to March 7th.
Other key dates for the election can be found at the bottom of this page.
Candidate Platforms
Candidate Platforms
President - Ava Milne-Epp
My name is Ava Milne-Epp, and I am running to be your EE Club President for the 2024/25 academic year! This past year, I was the EE Club’s Co-Vice President of Operations and Finance, and in that time I handled the finances, Junior Executive hiring, and merchandise sale. I’ve also assisted with many club events and activities, from EECERT, to website maintenance, to unofficial tutoring in the club room. As your president, I would bring the same diligence, organization, and passion for student life to the whole club. My vision for the club next year is outlined below.
Key Points
Building Community
Junior exec bonding opportunities
Events for female engineering students
Club room upgrades
Increased Academic and Community Representative involvement
GEER Week! This year we won by a landslide, next year we’ll win by an avalanche
Keeping You in the Loop
Regular and broadly advertised meetings, with recaps released monthly on social media for ease of access
Key dates available early - particularly important ones like scholarship applications, junior exec hiring, and big events
Broadening channels of communication beyond just social media
Helping You Succeed
Final exam bank on website
Making E2-C2 and EECERT more autonomous and resilient
Club room as a peer support centre
Advocating for You
Representing Electrical Engineering students as the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board changes requirements around contact hours
Get an ECE course in first year engineering!
Pushing for an electronics specialty
Anonymous reporting form for student advocacy
Portfolio-Specific Points
Opsfi
Reforming Junior Exec hiring to make the process more organized and effective.
Keeping the Academic and Community Representative application open all year, to allow people to get involved at a lower commitment level (with more opportunities to volunteer throughout the year).
Recruiting qualified people to run E2-C2 and EECERT, to reduce the burden on Academics and External and to work toward making the programs more autonomous.
Student Life
Creating events specifically for female electrical engineering students.
Using GEER Week as a springboard for wider student involvement by holding an information meeting early, and encouraging students to get involved.
External
Prioritizing putting finishing touches on our sponsorship package, and actually using it!
Bringing back E2-C2, and establishing a timeline and documentation for future years.
Internal
Integrating locker payments online, so you don’t have to go all the way to the clubroom to rent.
Making the club room an effective hub for student life through aesthetic improvements and better advertising.
Posting Senior Exec club room shifts, so students can come by and discuss questions and concerns.
Academics
Creating and publishing practice finals, starting with second year courses.
Continuing to improve and solidify EECERT.
Communications
Getting the opt-in email list up and running.
Updating the website, and having key dates posted from the beginning of the year.
VP Opsfi - Shawn Kerr and Victor Cherniak
About Us
Victor Cherniak is a third year Electrical Engineering student. He is currently on a work term at EPCOR on the electrical transmission team. A particular goal of his is to utilize the merchandise sale held every year by the EE Club to raise as much money as possible for the club.
Shawn Kerr is a third year Electrical Engineering student. He likes embedded systems and building things with microcontrollers. Shawn is building up knowledge about the bulk electric system in Alberta through his just under one year of experience at ATCO Electric. One thing that is very relatable about Shawn is his love for Nature, and being outdoors going on hiking adventures and camping in tents.
Together, we hope to work our butts off for the benefit of the EE Club, because EE (you know)!
Junior Executive Onboarding
One of our primary focuses will be to reform the system under which Jr. Execs are hired and assigned tasks. This includes:
A simpler hiring process, making it straightforward for Jr. Execs and less time consuming for the Sr. Execs they’ll work with.
Establish clear communication and directive between the Senior Executives and the Junior Executives, and aim to achieve clearer roles and responsibilities.
Promote the roles of Junior Executives within the club, helping them achieve more.
Merchandise Sales
Another primary effort of ours will be to upgrade the merch sales held by the EE club every year, in an effort to raise more money for the club. This will be accomplished by:
Working closely with suppliers to lower costs, optimize inventory, and plan the sale to be as cost-effective as possible.
Working with the Junior and Senior Executive Communications team to advertise the sale and reach out to more interested customers.
Providing quality clothing with interesting designs that any proud EE can wear to show off their superior discipline!
Innovation and Reliability
Money is complicated, we hope to simplify it for the entire club by:
Organizing the finances of EE club in an easy-to-understand and intuitive way, including clear communication of the club budget for its members.
Raising as much money as possible through various means, including an organized merchandise sale and organized events with other disciplines.
Raffle to potentially pay for EECERT.
Preparing a budget that allocates the EE club funds in a manner that maximizes the benefit to EE club members and all EE students!
Being open to new ideas, whether from other Senior Executives or Junior Executives, or anyone with an idea worth hearing!
VP Academics and Services - Jared James and Scott Soderquist
Overview
Jared James is a third-year Electrical Nanoengineering traditional student who takes great interest in the fields of electromagnetics, optoelectronics, and nanophotonics, his goals are to expand, improve, and introduce new services for the benefit of all students. Scott Soderquist is a third-year electrical engineering co-op student who strives to be involved in the fields of electromagnetics, electrical hardware, and optoelectronics engineering. With experience running EECERT, his goals are to help the program further develop and improve, as well as providing more resources for second year students.
Academic Help Initiatives
One of our main goals is to provide academic help and resources to second year students, this will include:
Running study sessions and drop in help for students
Running final exam review for 200-level courses
Creating and maintain a textbook library
Services Initiatives
Another main goal of ours is to further improve and expand the services provided to students by the club, this will be realized by:
Further improving and expanding EECERT, to ensure quality education and to teach useful skills
Create and run workshops for all students to teach skills which are not within the ECE curriculum
Communicate student concerns and interests to the faculty
Jr. Executives Team
Additionally, a goal of ours is to further the engagement of Jr. executives within our space, we will accomplish this by:
Creating a space where ideas and ambitions can be realized
Providing them opportunities for engagement with planning and executing events and initiatives
Providing them leadership opportunities
Read the full platform here:
VP External - Manav Joshi
Hello! My name is Manav Joshi, I am a third year electrical engineering student here at the University of Alberta. I’ve served in a number of roles with the EE Club over the past two years and I believe I will be able to bring a lot of positive growth to the club this upcoming year as the EE Club’s VP of External Relations
If elected I will:
Reorganize and effectively run E2C2, seeking sponsorships from traditionally hackathon-oriented organizations (i.e. MLH, local Tech firms)
Increase club outreach and effectiveness at procuring not only sponsorships but also other forms of support for the club.
Foment rebellion against the ESS.
Organize more cross-club cooperation and events, incorporating more engineering students.
VP Student Life - Melwin Moncy and Melanie Tang
Hello! Our names are Melanie Tang and Melwin Moncy (Mel²), and we are running for Co-Vice Presidents of Student Life for the Electrical Engineering Club.
About Ourselves:
Melanie Tang is a third-year EE student and the current Co-VP Student Life of the EE Club. Previously, she was also an EE Club Events Coordinator and Club Room Coordinator.
Facts about her:
She spends most of her time with her amazing dog, Bumi
Her comfort show is “How I Met Your Mother”
Melwin Moncy is a fourth-year EE student and the current Co-VP Student Life of EE Club. He has been in this position for two years now.
Facts about him:
Loves dancing and playing video games
He would like to pursue a career in robotics and aerospace. His dream job would be to work in space as an astronaut
Platform Points:
Prioritize EE Students
EE Events
We want to help mitigate exam stress by hosting fun and casual activities. We also want to host free or low-cost events for students that are fun. Examples of events that we’ve hosted this year that have been free or low-cost include:
ECE BBQ
Welcome Mixer
Welcome Back Bash
ECE Smash Tournament (Upcoming)
St Patrick’s Party (Upcoming)
GEER Week
Our platform last year regarding this subject was “Emphasis on an extra fun and involved GEER Week.” We’re proud to say that we absolutely crushed this and won GEER Week with the help of our amazing PR Reps, members from the entire EE Club, and engineering students around campus
We hope to do the same for next year, making it even more memorable and fun!
Grad Banquet
The current Graduation Banquet is set for March 28th. The ECE clubs have taken a lead role in organizing the banquet and hope to make it as memorable as possible
Emphasis on a spectacular graduation banquet to congratulate all engineering graduates on their hard work
Get suggestions from graduating students about how they want their graduation banquet to be
Get a head start on preparations to ensure a successful banquet
Work hard with the CompE and EngPhys Clubs to provide a fantastic banquet
Assure the Banquet is held at the best location possible (Oppose locations that the EE Graduation Body finds undesirable)
Philanthropic Events
The ECE Smash Tournament was a big success last year, raising over $500 for the campus food bank. We want to raise even more this year and can do it with the participation of the students on campus and the department
We want to be able to do more events like this where we can give back to our community while having lots of fun
Fundraisers
We hosted quite a few successful fundraisers this year through bake sales. These funds funded our club events and GEER Week, and a portion was donated to charity
We hope to do more like this next year to continue fundraising for our club and the community
ECE and Engineering Unity
More interaction between all ECE students
Collaborate with CompE Club and EngPhys Club
Host events where students from other disciplines are encouraged to join
Connect the engineering student body (All Disciplines, not just ECE)
Event Suggestion Box
Send event suggestions to us via Instagram or email
Work with those who want to volunteer regarding their event suggestion
Thank you for taking the time to read through our campaign platform. We are genuinely excited about the potential of hosting fun events for another year. Your support means the world to us, and together, we can make the upcoming year unforgettable.
Vote for another amazing year of fun! Vote for Mel²!
VP Communications - Ethan Caume
Update Social Medias
As of now, our website, Instagram, Discord, and so many other online presences we have are outdated. This can be from the information they share, the pictures they show, or even the organization to it (Discord in particular). To improve our ability to outreach with the rest of the engineering community, I plan to go through and modernize these.
Bolster Online Presence
In an age where attention spans and interest are waning, new approaches to engage online audiences must be attempted. To combat this, I plan to make our Instagram, and to a degree our Discord a much more active place. This includes making short form and long form video content, as well as edited photos to advertise and make our platforms more engaging to a modern audience.
Bring Back the EE Newsletter
Falling on deaf ears after the loss of a mailing list this Winter Semester, our email service, if used properly, is a vital way to propagate information. To fix this, I plan to roll out methods for sign-up, and a monthly letter listing the events and opportunities students have.
Advertise EE Student Initiatives
Not all things cool in Electrical Engineering happen with our club. The ESS and Project Clubs do wonderful work and give EE Students chances to succeed. Alongside this, many EE students try their own individual work that helps uplift fellow students. This includes advocacy, project work, or really anything that would benefit from a few more EE’s or benefit the community at large. I believe these people should have the chance to have their voice heard, and that is why I want to implement systems for all EE’s to show off their work.
Key Dates
Nominations open:
Nominations close:
Candidate's Meeting:
Campaigning begins:
Election Forum:
Voting opens:
Voting closes:
Thursday, February 15th, 6pm
Monday, February 26th, 5pm
Monday, February 26th, 7pm
Tuesday, February 27th, 9am
Tuesday, March 5th, 6 pm
Wednesday, March 6th, 9am
Thursday, March 7th, 6pm