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June 6, 1997 The Newspaper of he University ofWaterloo Engineering Society Volume 11 Iss

UW Formula SAE - Eighth in the World

SAE Team

ormula SAE is an international

engineering design competition

contested by close to 100 university

s from all around the world. The

of the Formula SAE Program is

provide a practical real world situation

can be applied andincrease industry's involvement with

ucation and the future . This objective is

by holding an annual

where students are required to

build, test and race a prototype

style race car in a single

year.

At the competition, which is hosted

Ford, GM, and r.ru;-==;-:-;;-....,.,==-1997 Formula SAE Results

every (88 Competing Teams

of the. . d d Overall Finish 8thIS JU ge (Top Canadian School )

practicingand Static Events

Design 4thengineers. Cost 20th

s Presen tation 15th

lud e Dynamic Events

i nee r i n g Acceleration 21st

Skid Pad 12thi g n Autocross 13th

fa ct uri ng Endurance 9th

cost, and marketing presentations.

Perfonnance events include acceleration

and skid pad tests, an Autocross event, and

the Endurance / Fuel Economy event.

From Thursday, May 14th through

Sunday, May 18th, 20 engineering

students proudly represented the

University of Waterloo at the annual

Fonnula SAE competition in Detroit. The

competition was steeper than ever, with 88

schools from the US, Canada, Puerto

Rico, and the UK.

This year 's event marked one of the

most successful weekends in UW Fonnula

SAE history. With an overall finish of

eighth place, UW was the top placing

WINNERS - The Formula SAE team from the Unive rsity of Waterloo finished eigth overall in the

international competition in Detroit, MI.

syde FX Wins ScuntDlmuantes Nermeen Mikhail

James SintonDesign

Friday, May 23, 1997: a day which

live forever in the mind of theof the University of Waterloo

Design Engineering class of

1 syde FX. It was upon this day that

Great International Scunt of Spring

began. This incredible exhibition of

and Scunt running stuff was

on by the Electrical Engineering class

1998, Assault and Battery. They had

privilege of running Scunt for

econd time by winning the Scunt of

Return. hosted by OaSys.

At 3:00 pm EDT (an hour and a half

later in Newfoundland), the official

opening ceremonies began. t was to be the

beginning of an incredible journey. A little

more than twelve hours later a new Scunt

champion would be crowned. Who wou ld

it be? Would it be Breakfast Island, a teammade up of first year

perhaps another darkhorse team?

The Scunt Gods had requested each

team to select a country, create a flag, and

compose an anthem. The consolidated IB

team chose Breakfast Island as their

country. The ancient, mysterious, lost,

underwater nation of

engineers competing

as one? Would it be

OaSys, the former

champion, making a

valiant comeback

all teams were

unceremoniously

sprayed with goo

Atlantis was used by

both syde FX and

Extreme. OaSys

became a savage

native colony. No

effort? Perhaps

Extreme, a team of

students from the math faculty attempting

to break the great engineering tradition?

Would it be No Support, a three member

team with, literally, no support? Or

Russia. The

countries.

Support paid homage

to the great nation of

other teams chose other

The countries, flags and anthems were

(see Frosh, page 4)

Canadian school at the event. Thoug

scbool has done as well as fourth

overall (in '87 '91), this year's re

were particularly sweet for UW be

the growing popUlarity and increased

of competition at the event has ma

difficult for UW teams to break into

(see Formula, page 3)

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News Information

What Makes Watstar Unique?Jewkes

atstar is a LAN that provides

most (if not all) of the features

of commercial PC LAN, but was developed with the

of an educational in stitution in

It has special features users and

take advantage of every

, possibly without recognizing how

these features

Watstar provides for software licence

control, too . We can guarantee that

software cannot be copied, and that only a

specified number of copies can run at any

time. This allows us to negotiate very good

prices on software, and purchase fewercopies of a package than there are

computers on the network. This saves

substantial sums of money.

Very advantageous to the

administrators of Watstar is how software

is distributed to

- features that are imagine if users could

mess up application

software files

servers and

workstations. It's a

"push" system

updates are

downloaded in the

middle of the nightrom a user's

it's very convenient that your

custom profile

you

into Watstar. That's because your

are stored on the

rather than on the workstation

while a machine is otherwise idle. This

means that administrators don't have to sit

at a workstation while software is being

downloaded, or move from machine to

machine to perform repetitive installations

- it saves untold hours of support time.

Also very important to the system

administrators and to users is the fact that

the hard drives of Watstar computers can

be write-protected. Imagine what would

happen if users could accidentally or

intentionally mess up configuration files

or application software files stored on a

hard drive. What would happen to the nextuser? t wouldn't be a pleasant situation

for either the system admirustrators or the

students trying to get access to a working

computer.

There are many other features of

Watstar as well, but the ones summarized

above are key differences between Watstar

and many commercial networks. These

features wouldn't seem important if you

are the only person to use a particular

computer and if you use the same one each

time, but they are vital to a large LAN

which is shared by many people. The

Watstar system has more than 1800

computers linked to some 60 servers

across campus and it is home to more than

16,000 userids It is one of the largest

existing educational networks, and

certainly the largest network on campus.

That's what makes Watstar unique.

Crawl is Right. .

cott Howe Chris DeVriesA Electrical

The evening of May 29 continued the

of '98 graduates wandering around

finest local watering holes.

unofficially in POETS but more

coated stomachs for the

The crawlers, covering almost every

then weaved to Weaver's Arms,

Landed at McGinnis, Changed to Louie's,

stepped over to The Fox and the Pheasant

(sorry, we couldn't find a good pun for that

one), and finally phi lied up at Phil'

Grandson's until the wee (yes, that was a

pun too) hours of the morning. Yes, we are

quite tired and our noggins are spitting out

really bad puns. The numbers steadily

grew as the crawl made its way through

the list of bars. A large number of crawlers

(approximately 50) were greated at Phil's

by no cover if they had purchased a T

shirt.

A good time was had by aJl who

attended. We saw a lot of new faces and

made some friends, and generally had a

great time. The T-shirts are reusable for

the next crawl (245 days) which will be on

July 17 and al 0 for 2 pub crawls offstream

and 2 more in the winter term. For any

fourth years that did not get a chance to

buy their pub crawl shirt they will be

available a week before the next pub crawl

or by contacting Lisa Poort or Chris

DeVries anytime. Thanks to all who came

out

June 6, 199

WRRThe Newspaper of h University o

Waterloo Engineering Society

Editor· in - Chief

Jeff Gobatto

Assistant Editor

Pierre Menard

Layout Editor

Alan Cannistraro

Photo Editor

Frederick Lai

Advertising Managers

Jennifer Motez

Sarmad Musa

Staff

Daryl Boyd

Liz JonesYada Jubandhu

Christine Madhavan

Cara Startek

Jaime Tiampo

Contributors

Paul Cesana

Bogdan Chmielewski

Sarah Davies

Chris Devries

Simon Dimuantes

Jessica Gross

Scott Howe

Soo Jang

Beth Jewkes

Vlad JoanovicCarrie Junker

Dan Kim

Steve Lill

Nermeen Mikhail

Leah Nacua

Ryan Pente

James Sinton

Nina Sodhi

Jenni Tee

Meghan Ternoway

Greg Thompson

Lynn Walker

Marc Winer

Doug Zister

The Iron Warrior is a forum for thought provokin

and informative anicles published by the Engineerin

SOCiety. View s expressed in The Iron Warrior arthose of the authors and do not necessarily renect th

opinions of the Engineering Society.

The Iron Warrior encourages submissions from

students, faculty and members of the universit

community. Submissions should reflect the concern

and intellectual standards of the university in genera

The author's name and phone number should b

included.

All submissions, unless othelWise stated, become th

property of The Iron Warrior, which reserves th

right to refuse publkation of material which it deem

unsuitable. The Iron Warrior lso reserves the righ

to edit grammar, spelling and text that do not mee

university standards. Authors will be notified of an

major changes that may be required.Mail should be addressed to The Iron Warrio

Engineering Society, CPH 1327, University o

Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 30 I. our phon

number is (519) 888-4567 x2693. our fax number

519) 725-4872. E·mail can be sent to

[email protected]



June 6, 1997 News & Information

UW Formula S E Places

Eighth Worldwideaint EL

(continued from page 1)

top ten in the last five years.the event. Though orne chools were

able to secure high placing in orne e ents,

they suffered in other event. UW'

consistency showed the teamwork and

varied skills necessary to be ucce ful at

the competition.

Bogdan ChmielewskiA Computer

There is art n the Engine ring

Lecture Hall.

At least I 'm sure at orne point it wacalled art. Now it i worn, fading. and

hopele sly unin piring. The time ha come

to revitalize the old unken submarine.

The ugge tion I recently made to the

Engineering Society executive is to

remove the canva, es

the walls, then

we could paint

on canvas and

the end result

ould be the

same.

The othermajor que tion

is "What ,hould

be painted?" My personal leani

toward arti tic expression of cienc

technology. Yes, I know this may o

some hard core a

The highlight for the competition was

the team's fourth place finish in the Design

event. This is where UW could show its

use of various analysis tools in producingan optimized design. One of the most

memorable moments for this team was the

announcement that UW had qualified for

Design Finals (top six teams). After

Sunday's early morning Design Finals, the

well respected race engineers placed UW

fourth behind the historically dominant

schools UTA, Cornell, and RIT. UW team

members stood proudly behind their

vehicle as photos were taken of the six

premier cars at the event.

This year, there have been more lower

year students involved in Formula SAE

than ever before. They have Jearned a

great deal from the 1997 Team and are

ready to take over and build on UW's

success. The 1998 Team under tands that

evolutionary design is necessary to be

successful at the competition and have

already begun brainstorming for ideas on

how to improve on the 1997 design. The

1997 Team will of course be around to

offer any advice that they may need.

and paint mural

directly on the wall . A

number of issue still

need to be worked out,

but thing are

tentatively a go.

it is worn, fading,

and hopelessly

uninspiring

After all, what do

have to do

cience? For

folk I sugg e t a

tour through the

of Ewen Patter, on the dynamic events, the UW car

showed its excellent acceleration and

handling with a 13th place finish in the

sharp turn and short straight-away

Autocross course. In the main event

Endurance race, the car was able to

produce a ninth place finish on the 22 km

track. These were great resu lts

considering the limited driver training for

the UW drivers.

The team's eighth pJace overall finish

was due to their consistent placing in all

Another focus for the 1998 Team will

be to give their drivers more time and

training in the car. This will require good

planning and time management as weather

suitable for driving is limited.

f you have any questions or would

like to get involved in Formula SAE,

please contact 1998 Team Leader Doug

Zister at the Formula SAE Office or email

[email protected] uwaterLoo ca

Painting directly on the walls will

probably be the cheapest way to enliven

EL. However, Plant Operations i the only

group currently

allowed to paint

anything at Uw. Itp still has to be een

what they have to

say. If we aren't

.. fP' allowed to paint on

sst .. ey

wanta good deal?Then come to

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

$2 SpecialsBIG Burrito

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located in the W.e.R.I. Housing Complex 268 Philip St.

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I would rather not do the pa

myself, but 1 would like to fac

getting something ex.cellent to go on

wall . What I need from you are idea

input. Send in your input and ske

My email add res

[email protected]. If

get anything, I will do it my elf. B

me, you don't want that.



4 News Information June 6, 19

Frosh eam Wins Scunt(conti'lUed from page I

pre ented at the opening ceremonies

inside and outside EL 101 with the Scunt

God presiding. All teams were

unceremoniously sprayed with goo by the

Uh-Oh team and subjected to the

mispelling of A + B by the syde FX

team. The opening ceremonies were won

by the Extreme team after their amazing

anthem. The games had just begun.

The on campus events Included such

incredible competitions as soccer, tag,

ultimate, building tuff out of spaghetti

and marshmallows, international taste test,

and water balloon hockey. The road trips

included Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo

(which is far), a gravel run, and the big

T.O., also kno wn as Megacity. There was

also a virtual road trip to Seattle, because

no one reaJly wants to go there. For this

Scunt however, there was also another

spec ial treat. No, not macadamia nut

cookies, but a bike trip through the Laurel

Creek area. All competitors were careful

to wear proper safety gear, including

helmets, gloves, knee pads, and restraining

harnesses with parachutes at all times.

The visits to team headquarters

occurred with much song and dance from

all teams. syde FX had their headquarte rs

at the bottom of Columbia Lake where

they sang the Under the Sea song from

the Simpsons and danced to ABBA, the

best group ever. They painted the nails

and hair of the cunt Gods blue: a ll the

SCUn Gods looked beautiful.

Finally, it was time for judging. The

trivia lists had already been completed and

now it was time to impress the Gods one

last time with stuff from around the world.

The Scunt Gods asked to see the Leaning

Tower of Pisa, Egyptian hieroglyphics,

French toast, a kangaroo, and lots of other

cool stuff. A ll the teams used their

imaginations and ingenuity despite the

waning hours to try and capture victory. A

conga line formed as a representation of

the brotherly love between OaSys and

syde FX. Together, they also sang the

You Don ' t Win Friends With Salad song

from the Simpsons.

At the end of the night, once the great

roadtrips had returned (including the very

10 t syde FX learn which could not find

their way through the gravel run), the final

announcement were made. Even with a

fraction of each of the original teams left,

the enthusiasm level was high. All teams

were grateful to the Scunt Gods for yet

another incredible Scunt. It was now time

to crown the next champions of Scunt. In

fourth place wa Breakfast Island, whodespite a small showing, produced a

Herculean effort. With the Bronze, the

deep, dark Extreme team from math.

Coming in second, the defending Scunt

Gods, OaSys, who impressed all with

incredible costumes, even though they

sent no one on the road trip.

Finally, in first, to be envied by all, for

all eternity, or at least for three second,

the 1997 University of Waterloo Spring

Term Engineering Scunt Champions of the

World were syde FX. The age old

tradition of IB Systems winning Scunt had

finally been renewed. syde FX had

grasped the torch passed down from

generations past. Team captain Nermeen

Mikhail (the Nerminator) cried; Phong

(Corel) Loi jumped and screamed; James

Sinton wa quoted as saying, Ask not

what Scunt can do for you, but what you

can do for Scunt . The victors took off to

Mel's Diner for a victory party

accompanied by the Breakfast Club,

because it was time for breakfast.

Everyone was happy and Scunt was over

once again . ext timc, Scunt will again be

great, but then it will be guided by a

different force: that of the shopping cart.

1997 ESSCOlympicsRyan Penty 3A ChemicalDan Kim 3A Systems

Vladimir Joanovic 3A SystemsCarrie Junker A ivil

Jan. 3] t to Feb. 2nd, 1997

Kingston, Ontario

The ESSCOlympics is an annual

two-day competition ho ted by an

Engineering Student Societies

Council of Ontario affiliated university.

This year's Olympics

new friends and having a good time

weekend is set up as a compe

between schools in team of four peo

After a late start due to treach

driving condition, we arrived in Kin

late Friday night. We made it ju t in

to head over to a local e tabli hmmeet the rest of the delegates.

weekend was filled with exciting e

de igned to tour Queen 's University

meet other teams, not to mention t

our minds. Saturday morning started

a Queen's trivia

were hosted by the

Queen's University

engineering society.

What does ESSCO do?

It is an organization

whose mandate is to

it's a way ofmeeting

new friends and having

a good time

which required

search the camp

clues and ans

Engenui

competitions ma

represent the undergraduate engineering

students in Ontario. It facilitates

centralized communication between the

thirteen engineering societies and various

sectors of business, government and

academia, including profes ional

organizations such as the PEO.

The Olympics are an open

atmosphere for delegates to learn about the

other societies' actlvltles and

achievement, as well as gain inter- ociety

connections. It's also a way of meeting

the majority o

weeken<4 including building the

structure with newspaper and st

building the best paper plane and

other events.

Although we didn't win

Olympics, (EngSoc B won while we

in the running) we had a good tim

met many people. ESSCO is an imp

organization and if you get a chan

participate in an ESSCO confer

especially the Olympics , it's defi

well worth it.

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June 6, 1997

A

s the weeks start to tick away the

engineering students are

continuously faced with the ageold debate, Work or play? No matter

how much of a workaholic you are,

everyone needs a little time off to let the

old brain cells cool off and to clear the

head of randomly floating equations.

In addition to the normal amount of

scheduled events, the week of the 19th was

also Engineering Week. During this week

EngSoc schedules activities every day that

allows for a release during and between

classes.

Much had been planned in the realms

of distractions but unfortunately were

plagued with difficulties. The Dunk Tank

was cancelled because of the weather; the

Hick Pub trip was cancelled due to a lack

of sign ups caused by assignment pile ups

and immanent midterms; the Sleeman

Brewery tour was postponed by a

scheduling error. The EngSoc bookings

were misplaced and the time was reserved

by a second party. The tour has been

rescheduled for a later date.

Week 3: Engineering Week

Tuesday

Enginuity was the first on the list of

activities where the participants had to

design contraptions to perform a wide

variety of functions with little more then

their wits as supplies.

1:30pm marked the starting of the

Engineering Assassination game. It was agame of wit and skill where you could lose

your life, or just get a green dot put on

your forehead. The first kill was marked

in at under five minutes after the start and

the game just snowballed from that.

Also happening was the Enlarged

Origami competition. Origami is the

oriental style of creating figures with

paper.

Wednesday

With the cancellation of the Dunk

Tank, the only thing to be happening was

the Nintendo 64 tournament that occurred

in POETS, the engineering bar. The game

News Information

The layful lummer

of choice in this wa Mario Cart 64. With

a one on one battIe, players were ranked

according to their winlloss average.

Thursday

The morning was ducl tape

construction and hot wing and banana boat

racing. In the duct tape construction the

task was to build something completely

out of duct tape. The two entries were a

plumber's wrench and the winning entry

of a beer stein. In the boat racing, two

teams matched up to each other and raced

to see who could eat faster. It turned out to

be not the cleanest of the events. The

afternoon was an airplane making contest.

Friday

The morning was taken up with a

Magic: the Gathering Tournament (a

collectable card game put out by Wizards

of the Coast) and Name that Tune.

The afternoon was marked with a

simple game of bottle cap flinging.

EngSoc Meeting #2:

The beginning of Meeting #2 was put

aside for the approval of the budget. In

addition there was a presentation on the

White Water Rafting trip that is happening

later in the term, updates on the Scunt and

a discussion on paper recycling in

engineering.

Scunt:

There was an unprecedented turn out

for the International Scunt ruo by A&B

(4A Elec). Eight teams attended the

opening ceremonies and geared up for the

competition. In attendance were delegates

Liz ones

Jaime Tiampo

from a plethora of countries: Unga Bunga

Land (OaSys); Breakfast Island

(conglomerate of IB classes); Mars (2B

Elec and friends); Russia (a syndicate of

on and off term I B classes); NeverReady

(various people who just showed up for a

good time); Tonka (3A off stream Mechs);

and two groups from the Lost Continent of

Atlantis (syde FX and the Math faculty).The Scunt was a major success. At all

times during it there could be witnessed

scunters scurrying around participating in

some of the silliest events yet dreamed of

by man.

H;ghfights

* A solitary snowman III the quaubetween CPI I and E2 courtesy r sydc rx

* Communist propaganda I c c t l l r c ~from the Russian contingent

* Hot pepper eating competition

After a long, long day, and many

weary hours, the Scunt finally ran down

with the judging of the item li sts. A time to

test not only the amount of shear rubbish

that you have accumulated but also to see

how well you can improvise on the spot.

This lead to the closing ceremony where

the team that . howed the most spirit , the

most nuttiness, and had the most points is

declared the winner and organizer of tbe

next Scunt. To no one's surprise, syde FX

came out ahead of everyone else. This

team started the Scunt saying they were

going to win then continued with that

attitude right until the end. Arrogant? Yes.

Loud? Yes. Ht'wever, they worked

together as a team to go out and have as

much fun as possible.

photo by

Week 4: The Week That Didn't H

This is the week that the brewe

was removed from the list of eve

addition to this tragic occurence, the

Quest tournament and the Amus

Park trip were also removed fro

timeline. The only thing that did rem

the list was the IRS Pub crawl.

IRS Pub Crawl:

This long standing tradition i

open to graduating student . Being m

a first year studenl, Twas not welco

this trip So I will ,lItempt to rl'C{)l

events that OCl'urreu during it fm

foggy UlCOUlIls o the rHlrticiplll1t \,

After silting lIt'(}ulld POET

afternoon, the group headed over tn

to consume n tl -Iox ns to oa

stomach. Th 'y then porocl.:d

Weaver's Arms, followed by the

tour (i.e. McGinnis Front Row,

hange Louie's, and The Fox

Pheasant). The evening was end

Phil's Grandson's Place. The partic

were very merry al the end of it.

Upcoming F ~ v e n l cJune 07 Alumni Weekend

June 08 Joint Executive Meeting

June 20 M,O.T. (Middle of Term p

June 2l Soccer Tournament

June 22 Joint Council Meeting

June 25 EngSoc Meeting #4

June 26 Brick Brewery Tour

June 26 Mystery Pub Night

Remember: events can't h

unless there are participants.



June 6, 1997

In my last article I

talked about how

vegetarians don't eat

meat, and vegans don'teat meat, dairy products,

or eggs. Both groups, to

varying extents, avoid

animal products. What

the heck is an animal

product anyway?

Aside from the

obvious, such as fur,

leather and hot dogs, the

term "an imal products"

covers an extremely large number of

items.

Even with foods, determining whether

a product is vegetarian isn't always easy.

For instance, gelatin is a gelling ingredient

made from animal bones, cartilage,tendons and other tissues such as skin.

Gelatin is found in Jell-O, marshmallows,

Pop Tarts, and some candies, to name a

few.

Lard, a general term for animal fat, is

another hidden meat product. It is often

found in the pastry of pies and tarts, and in

many commercially baked goods, such as

Jos. Louis. Lard is also used by some

restaurants for cooking french fries.

Aside from foods, there are literally

thousands of everyday items that are made

from animal parts or ingredients. A quick

search on the Internet (greatly helped by

the National Pork Producers Council web

site - where they "use everything but

oink") revealed a large number of items,

some of which are: glues, buttons, bone

china.

News Information

The Crazy Carrot

Products u ing bone meal: fertilizer,

porcelain enamel, gla ,water filter.

Products using fatty acid and

glyceride: in ecticide , floor waxe ,

weed killer, water proofing agent,

lubricants, rubber, crayons, co metic ,

chalk, antifreeze, phonographic records,

nitroglycerin, matche , pIa tics, putty,

cellophane, linoleum.

Products using hair: artist brushes,

insulation, up hoI tery.

It is easy to ee from thi list that aside

from foods, animals provide many

different products that

Lynn Walker

meat , I continue 1 drink milk and eat

egg . t i n't a imple a: 'uying that the

cow and chicken don't need to be killed to

make the milk and egg . There arc e eral

import ant i ue uch a cholc. terol,

Bo ine Growth Hormone, and factory

farming that deserve con ideration.

What it come down to i. where an

individual decide to draw the line,

whether thi means till eating egg, or

going 0 far a to give up chee e and

honey. Although thi often involve

making a compromi e, I think 1 . peak for

many vegetarian, and

humans, both veggie

and non-veggie use in

their daily lives.

This observation

raises an important

point. How does a

making a compromise

is much better than

nothing at all

vegans when I say that

making a compromise

is much better than

nothing at all.

Deciding to

vegetarian person who doesn 't eat meat, or

even a vegan who doesn 't eat honey,

justify usin g products with animal

ingredients, such as glass, rubber, or

matches? The truth is thai we have

become so accustomed to depending on

animals for so many items, that it would be

impossible to avoid them all.

What vegetarians and vegans can do

is try to avoid as many of these products as

possible. For example, choose cosmetics

that don't have animal ingredients (and

aren't tested on animals), and don't buy

bone china. Walch out for lard and gelatin

in foods. Keep yourself informed, and

strive to make educated decisions, even if

that sometimes means using a product that

you know isn't animal friendly.

For example, although I don 't eat

become vegetarian orvegan is a personal choice with many

personal issues to consider. t is up to each

person to decide where to draw their own

line. In the case of vegetarianism, small

actions can make a big difference.

Continuing in the (new) tradition of

this column, I have included a recipe.

Since summer is finally here and

everyone's firing up their BBQ's, it

seemed appropriate to offer a vegetarian

BBQ idea.

Notes:

Do NOT attempt this with regular soft

tofu or you will have a big yucky mess

If you are using wooden skewers, they

should be so aked for a good half hour

beforehand to prevent them from buming

up on the BBQ.

Veggie Kabobs

Marillade

appro ' . 2 cup vegetable oilapprox. I cup red wine vinegar

oregano

basil

2 cloves garlic (or more)

black pepper

Kabob Items:

eggplant

zucchini

cherry tomatoes

onions

green pepper

mushrooms

tofu (extra firm) *see note below

Met od:

Mix the marinade ingredients

in a large container.

Wash and cut the vegetabl

kabob-friendly shapes. It is OK

th in on the e plant, a

mushrooms and cheny tomatoes

left whole. The tofu should be c

cubes.

Marinade the vegetables in th

container for at least 2 hours,

occasionally to make sure the ve

are coated properly. You may wan

more oil and vinegar if there doesn

to be enough marinade.

Thread the goodies onto skew

BBQ them. t is a good idea to tu

over frequently so that they are

evenly.

What's Happening in our Watstar Labs?eth Jewkes

Engineering Computing

YOu've no doubt been noticing

changes in some of the central

Watstar labs this spring. Wheel

(E2-1308) got a major overhaul with new

carpet, fresh paint, spiffy tables and166MHz Pentiums. Lever (CPH-3390A)

has new 166MHz Pentium system units,

and Shim and Wedge (E2-1302A) are

slated for new carpet, tables, and 166MHz

Pentiums the middle two weeks of June.

(Courses usually taught in Shim and

Wedge have been moved to Wormgear or

Chemcat for the weeks of June 8 and June

16.) Invisibly improving connectivity and

network speed, the backbone network

connecting our busy servers (mostly

student lab areas) is being upgraded to a

lOOMbps switched ethernet environment.

What's behind all this? Well, the big

reason is that Engineering Computing staff

are bringing Window 95 to the Watstar

system, a project code-named Elmira."

This move to Window 95 is the result of

more 32bit appl ications coming into the

market, and newer application no longer

running under Win 3.x. Many people use

Windows 95 on home computers, andstudents use Windows 95 in their co-op

jobs. It wa clear that our computing

systems needed to re pond.

We considered using Windows NT as

a basis for student computing. Following

an intense evaluation (the technical reports

are available at http://elmira), the decision

was made in November 1996 that NT did

not have the functionality required for a

student computing environment. Once the

decision was made not to pursue Windows

NT, Engineering Computing staff began

work on connecting the whiz-bang power

of Windows 95 to the snap-click reliability

of Watstar. Much of the work has already

been completed - beta versions of the new

system are now being tested in va rious

sites across campus and the plan is to

launch the new system starting this

September.

Windows 95 and the app lications that

run under it are demanding of systemre 'ources like memory, storage space and

processor speed. In order to get good

performance in our heavily used labs, we

must provide a Pentium processor with at

least 16Mb RAM and a hard drive large

enough to store application software

(which will be write protected) and

temporary files. This all pointed to a need

to upgrade our faculty labs.

In the winter tenn 1997, funding from

parents ' donations was al10cated to

Engineering Computing to carry out

upgrades for the central lab . This was

combined with other funding to produce

Ihe resu lts you I I ' staniny 10 \l'e

ccntral labs .

As for the depl1rtmcntal labs, t

need upgrades. Ocpur 11Ientnl ch

committed to providing top quality

computing resources. and havt.: com

largt.: sums of money to

computing r ~ { J u r c e s lip 10 dat ' . Hbudgctary cuts over the past few

havc made it more difficult to

level of support they would like.

A proposal for a coordinated

of the departmental W a t ~ t l t r labs h

submitted to WEEP for their

$)00,000 deci ion this June, whic

make a substantial con tribution

successful migration to Windows

you're interested, contact your WE

for more information.) Whate

outcome of the decision, you will se

changes made to our computing

when you return in the Winter 1998



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Consider a lily.

Bogdan ChmielewskiA Computer

A flower of little consequence.

It is air, water, earth and fire.

A guardian of existence.

It exists on the plane between the sea,

And the sky and the soil.

Its scent travels the world,

Carried upon the forever changing currents.

Filling the arth with its power.

Fluid in its life.

It flows from a beginning to an end.

Welcome

Having never set eyes on you

Never hearing you nor feeling

Nor smelling that sweet new scent

I already love you

And know I always will

I have so many things to offer you

So many things I want to give

Gems of wisdom from my limited experience

Gifts of love and adorationI want to tell you I m proud

Love Drool

A scenic mural reflects from my coffee.

The day is up on me,

and upon me it creeps.

Slow moving blue cascade views,

Charades of landscapes drift through.

The care of the rose petal scenery

shares time as I sweetly close my eyes.

Think love, love to live, live to give, give to passion

Watching the passion in the seeds of giving.

This heart soaked collage breathes deep in succulent substances.

Air. Water Fire.

Higher Intervention

Oh, shimmering elements

Elementsof

beauty.Beauty in vast stretches.

Stretching a familiar smile across the sky.

Sky to above, above to view, view so panoramic

Across plains, in through mountains, and beds of rivers,

an orgasmic celebration of living

A living feast of friends

A beat-up jalopy and I m off with my love.

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10

T he University

of Waterloo

has a different

engineering programwhen compared to

most institutions. In

addition to the regular

considerations of

course content,

examinations, and

grades, there is the co-operative education

component to consider. In many people's

opinions, this factor is almost more

important than the others mentioned.

Thu , a problem with this system is of

concern to all UW engineering students.

The purpose of this di cussion is not

to complain about a lack of job

opportunities in certain areas, nor the

tendency to have lower placement rates

lffiongst first year students. These are all

problems which the co-op department

cannot easily control, as they are the result

of the job market which exists at the time

of employment. What can be improved is

the information the employers have about

the students they hire, and ideally have this

before they even decide which to consider.

Opinions

onsider this

Too often a student has gone into a

work place where the supervisor has little

knowledge to base an expectation for the

student upon.f

they were fortunateenough to participate in the resume

screening and interview process, then they

may have some idea of what the student

has or has not seen. However, in many

cases the interviewing is done by

management or human resources, and the

supervisor is only given notice of an

impending arrival. How can this person

plan a work list for the student which will

be beneficial to both parties? Granted, the

individual can have access to the student's

resume, but this information is at best only

half of what the student is capable of.

What about the courses studied while in

the engineering program? Is this

information unimportant?

Perhaps each department could

produce a document on the core

curriculum their students are required to

cover. Since the resume package must

include the term the student is studying,

the supervisor would know exactly what

courses their new charge has seen. Not

every course studied in the academic term

leffGobatto

is applied on the following work term, so

this information would almost always

provide the supervisor with a larger realm

of skills to utilize than if they only had theresume to refer to.

Another benefit of these document

would be in the job posting process. How

many student have applied to a job for

their level, only to find that the employer

has no idea what a student at their level is

capable of? Perhaps they were looking for

a senior level student, and the task at hand

was better suited to give a junior level

student some valuable experience? The

availability of curriculum content would

enable the employer to judge what level of

student they are actually looking for. This

would 1ikely reduce the number of sign

offs which always occur on ranking form

day, as well as increase the number of

junior level positions while taking away

from the large number of senior level

postings.

Thus a better educated employment

group comes from a small amount of

work. A more knowledgeable employer is

one who is more likely to obtain the

student they are searching for, which in

June 6,

turn improve their opinion of

operative education program at

higher regard for the program

more job opportunities, whicproduces better engineers. Thes

engineers continue to carry the

UW with them as they move thro

and the reputation of the eng

program grows further.

The content of this documen

include a listing of the courses,

down by terms, with a brief descr

content. n addition to this, a

inclusion would be a description

complementary studies electives

and when they are offered to the

A rough estimate would be a p

term, and since 4B never precedes

work term, the document would b

pages. One area of potential co

that of technical electives. In t

that these are too numerous to an

summary of the areas would suff

example, in electrical engineer

could outline the progra

communications, controls, pow

This information can only h

employers make better decisions.

Clotheslined by a Piece of Red Tapendrew HatelyA Environmental Civil

After two years of noticing the sameadministrative and registration

problems and delays, it seems

clear to me that the univer ity management

has no desire to improve the quality of

their services. This is a problem that has

plagued many government agencies and

civil service institutions, and it is truly

frightening to see it in an institution of

higher education. Registration, co-op

services, course scheduling and the

administrative offices all suffer from

arcane methods, introvertcd attitudes and

disgruntled employees. On several

occasions, the only thing that has kept me

working toward. becoming a fee-arranged,

registered, co-op approved student is the

ability to laugh at the idiocy that Iencounter.

Looking at the e inadequacies

objectively, I assume that most of the

problems could be attributed to poor

leadership and management, lack of focus

and poor funding decisions. This is

reflected in the attitudes of the employees,

their attitude towards students, their work

hours, and their need to feel important by

writing useless policies. However, J have

also noticed several exceptional

employees who are fully devoted to their

job and the students. However, these

employees suffer from inept leadership

and thus have their motivation quashed.

In terms of the employee's attitudestowards students, I truly believe that a

basic requirement for any person working

at a university should be a positive attitude

towards the students. The co-operative

education department is the clearest

example where the attitude at the

reception desk is a true oxymoron. The

fundamental goals of reception,

acknowlcdging someone when they enter

the room and creating a warm atmosphere

through establishing eye contact and

positive conversation, are often lacking in

this department. Although the e skills are

usually implied, it i nece sary for a

manager to point out the inadequacy when

it is noticed. Corporations specialized in

service industries realize the need to

directly address this is ue. A clea r

example is the minimum wage cashier at

McDonald's who is required to smile and

greet the customer. The failing of the

university i either in not recognizing the

student as a cu tomer, or ignoring the need

to maintain the customer' satisfaction.

This poor attitude towards the

students points to a larger problem, that the

university needs to establish attainable

goals to improve the service they provide.

No organization or corporation can

achieve or maintain their reputation or

revenue by simply providing the same

product. In the last two years, the

university has made no part of registrationeasier, faster or clearer. I also have yet to

see a line-up in Needles Hall move faster.

Finally, I have yet to see any document

that says, Next term, the university wants

to streamline the registration for students.

Early registration is the university's simple

solution to avoiding line-ups. This solution

guarantee that money will be removed

from your bank account earlier, and not

much el e. Early registration does not

addre cour e changes, co-op status,

health in urance refunds, fee

arrangements, student loans and a host of

other i sues that require joining a line in

Needles Hall. f the management of the

university were to ask for suggestions for

improving these procedures from their

employees and students, I would expect

the response would be overwhelming . A

suggestion box i not an adequate solution

for this. It is necessary that the

management state the desire to improve

service and ask for suggestions on specific

problems.

With respect to course changes, I find

the existing paper format arcane and

frustrating. This term, I watched some of

my classmates make four to five visits to

the undergraduate office to finalize their

schedule. Despite having an exceptional

undergraduate officer, the uni

arcane scheduling system not only

obscene quantities of paper, bothcourse index numbers and from th

schedules, but it causes students to

to a week of lectures as confirm

each change takes a day Appare

university has made some att

correct this problem, as there

electronic drop/add center, wh

open for a couple of days.

obvious to me that this center c

open for a week.

Office hours and staffing are

point where the university has

failed the students. The amount o

productivity caused by line-ups is

to humanity, yet this institution c

to ignore students waiting in

Equivalently, over-staffing office

no demand is anticipated leads

workers. By imposing a deadline

payment of two to three days after

begins, one would anticipate

number of people wishing to

arrange fees. Most service-

businesses would anticipate t

schedule employees accordingly

maintain their usual rigid schedu

also implied that employees c

allotted by need and not by de

during this time. f indeed the u

see More ed Tape, page 1



t

June 6, 1997

W

hat's your

e d g e ?

W h a t syour selling point?

What is it on your

re ume that you want

co-op employers to

notice and interview

you for? Your C++

p r o g r a m m i n g

experience or your GIS skills? What about

your culture? Oh, I'm sorry, did I use a

word that's not in your vocabulary?

To be honest, I reall y don't care too

much about resumes. I have a beef about

the quality of engineers being relea ed into

the workplace. The engineering

profession is increasingly associated with

negative social stereotypes. It's more and

more common for individuals outside the

profession to tie unwanted qualities to the

engineer: lack of personality, scarcity of

culture, disinterest in anything other than

the technical, etc.

Consider Waterloo engineers: a

society that breeds apathy and ignorance in

exchange for competition and rivalry. The

general mentality is that the better student

is the one with the higher av ra ;

qualification for the real world is directly

related to the numbers on one's report card

and the acronyms on one's resume. I've

often found myself defending the

reputation of the Waterloo engineer with

co-workers, Waterloo non-engineers, non

Waterloo engineers and non-Waterloonon-engineers (in other words, everyone

but ourselves). The generally accepted

(continued/rom page 10)

has fully examined its staffing

possibilities: it has not given consideration

to the office hours. The fact that most

offices close at noon, the same time that

students have a break from lectures,

illustrates blatant ignorance. The

undergraduate office, co-operative

education, computing help desk and many

other services are simply unavailable

during what should be their peak hour of

the day. To correct this problem, less

introverted management would be

necessary. f an employee receives a

paycheck from the university, there is no

sane reasoning that the management could

not share resources and employees to

arrive at better and more flexible hours for

both their staff and students. Providing

flexible hours often boosts employee

satisfaction and allows longer hours of

operation without increasing overtime

hours.

Finally, the implementation of poor

Opinions

The Village diot

stereotype is, to be blunt., that the Water loo

engineer is a ocial misfit.

There are job available in backrooms for tho e who have an objection to

ocial communication. Hiding away from

others is an available option to individuals

working as coding-monkeys. More often

than not, though, employers will expect

their engineer to present or at least

communicate aspects of a job. Tho e who

cannot express themselve or present

themselves ocially can forget about any

type of job promotion. Waterloo is finally

starting to recognize thi problem. The

English Language Proficiency

Examination (ELPE)

Alan Cannistraro

Philo ophy and 1anagement Science

courses don't teach anything about nm ' ic

or vi ual arts, cla sicalli terature or theatr .I'm not ugge ting thut these culluml

a pect of ociety hould be incorporated

into our curriculum. merely that many of

the individual enrolled in Waterloo',

engineering program are missing any

park of cultivation and refinement.

I'm in pired by thi topic becau e of

how I pent one of my days this winter.

One evening after work. I took the subway

down to the Art Gallery of Ontario to meet

up with some of my fellow clas mates.

Featured was the work of Edward Munsch.

mo t commonly

may not be the best

solution, but it helps to

ensure that students

are not devoid of any

communication skills.

The Technical

many enrolled in

Waterloo's engineering

associated with hi

painting "The Scream",

which happened to be

on display. After an

hour or two in awe of

the legendary

program are missing

refinement

resentation

Proficiency Examination (TPPE) required

by the E&CE department is also a

reasonable solution. Electrical and

computer engineers seem to have a greater

problem than students in any of the other

depart ents and the TPPE encourages the

ability to present.

What about culture? Communication

is the bare minimum social skill that the

engineer should possess, but this doesn't

take into account any stimulation of

personal or intellectual growth. Waterloo

engineers are required to take CSEs butthere is no encouragement to learn more

than the least required by the course.

ore ed Tape

policy and the fajlure to change or make

exceptions to established methods plague

the university administration. The best

example of this is the co-op return to

campus interview. After recognizing that

the attendance to the e rigidly cheduled

meetings was poor, the solution from co

op was the incredibly uncreative "YOU

MUST AITEND threat. If the return to

campus interview merited a scheduled

meeting, perhaps the attendance would

rise. I cannot find the need to stroll acro s

campus to be told to fill out form , which

I filled out while waiting to pay my fees,

and asked one question. After missing my

interview this term, I told my coordinator

and three receptionists at co-op that I

would be returning to my previous

employer. Every one of them insisted I

return when a coordinator was available.

After my third visit to try to sort out this

inane interview, I gave up, and as a result

received another threat yesterday. I fully

acknowledge my fault in missing this

illustrations, we

proceeded to a jazz concert. Another hour

passed and we went for supper at a

Chinese restaurant - a real Chine e

restaurant, not one of those American

buffet style Chinese joints - where I was

introduced to a whole new variety of food.

Wben the evening ended, 1 bopped on a

GO bus home reading the original Italian

version of Dante's Divine Comedy:

[nferno.

It was the most cultured day of my life

so far. I saw (and touched, but no security

guards noticed) one of the most famouspaintings from the past hundred and fifty

years. I listened to and enjoyed an evening

interview, but having fill d out th' foons

and informed the department of my

intentions, I failed to see the logic in

pursuing the malter further. Y sterday, I

received a threatening email, which said I

could ort out the prohlem by replying

with a yeo or no answer as to my

employment status. II seems obviou:. to

me that any of the people Ilold could have

taken care of my co-op status, and that th

scheduled interview is a comple te wai)teof

time and money. r'm not suggesting

complete abolition of the interview, but if

I have no need to talk to a coordinator and

have completed all necessary forms, the

interview is a waste of resources.

I would greatly appreciate pubJic

response to any of my complaints, as

many of these administrative details

frustrate me every lerm. 1 am even more

interested in hearing any plans or goals the

university has to better service it's studenL')

and improve the morale of its employees.

of America's fir t unique musical

I was acquainted with the cui

culture which I had ne er e before. I .rend the original manu

book writ n over four hundred y

I went to bed that night reflectin

life that I hadn't been living. I

deep. but it moved me.

Don't misunderstand me. I p

am no more cultured than tho

criticizing. I had little idea

evening had to offer. It was a fe

of mine, friend s whom 1 con. ider

who planned the evening. I ju

along for the ride. Relative to wh

to offer. I consider my, el

uncultured, but I recognize w

mi ss ing. The problem is that man

don't see the point in exploring be

nalTOW realms of a career. They

accept the importance of society

had a prof tell the cia s that unive

the time for us to expand our m

improve our elves as people.

telling the cla to get their nos

book and tart doing someth in

This came from a university prof

The real world is not inte

indivi duals with knowledge stric

field n most a per, l I

rounded individual wiIl go a J

than someone with a number-on

and a few irrelevant technica

Consider the possibilities poten

by ignoring a major aspect of lif

this starts to haunt you, do sabout it.

W nfo

All submissions must

cl<'ctronic text foruMt (

Edit, Macintosh Simplc

I. tc). Submissions in Word fur

95 and Office 97 cannot be wnv

we do not have the facilities 1 d

l.cll to the Editor in Chi

Iron Warrior an: always welc

appreciated. Any I tters u ~ t h

and addressed to the lW or to th

in-Chief. The author's name

withheld by request of the autho

Editorin-Chicf deems it is n

Letters shall be limited to a max

750 words, or as deemed appro

the letter by the Editor-in- hier

brevity.

All submissions can be m

email to iwarrior@wedge or by

them in electronic format in

mailbox in the EngSoc office.

Please note, the deadl

submissions for a new banner is



June 6, 1997 Internal Information

What's a Corporate

Manager?Steve Liff

Corporate irector

As most of you don't seem to be

aware, we have a new employee.

Actually, we have the arne

wonderful employee, Mary Bland, but

with a new title, Corporate Manager. You

may not know this, but we used to obtain

all of our advertising revenue for the Grad

yearbook and the Frosh handbook from

one advertising management company.

They would collect the advertisers money

but only give us our 40% share while

keeping the rest as their fee. As you can

imagine, this has annoyed us for years but

since this person keeps the records of all of

the advertisers, we had no database of our

own to use. Well, now we do.Mary has been working very hard

trying to create a database of all

companies that have advertised with us in

the past. We are also trying to add some of

the new companies out there that hire

engineering co-ops. We fLgure if they have

enough money and insight to come to

Waterloo for their co-op tuden , rna be

they would want to adveni e theircompany to all of our graduating

engineer . Thi i where you come in.

We want each and every one of you to

write down the full mailing addre of

your last few workterm ite so we can add

them to our databa e. Mary has created an

initial advertising package and we are

mailing them to every address we can get

our hands on, but we always are looking

for more. We would also appreciate it if

you couid include the phone number and a

contact name in the Marketing or Human

Resources department , as these are very

valuable and sometimes hard to get. If

you think Mary already ha your company

on her list, just pop by the C&D and askher. Otherwise, write it down on a piece of

paper and drop it in the Corporate

Manager mailbox in the Orifice or email

her at [email protected]. Thanks for

you help especially since it will benefit all

of us.

SAC Wants Your

HelpGreg ThompsonSAC Director for Eng Soc

It's just about time for midterms again,

and also the time for the dail

checking of job postings,

photocopying and handing in resul1les.

of . who are r turning from a work teml

can help out futllre co-op tudents in their

search for a job. The Student Advi ing

Co-op (SAC) has a

of tudent,. The more ludents

out the sheet the larger the in

base. Tell LL why y u loved yteml, or tell us wh you didn'l.

SA Work Term Summary S

be picked up from your EngSoc

from the relocated home base o

upstairs in POETS. Completed

be dropped off at the SAC Direct

POETS Needle Hall or at t

office in the S

work term summary

sheet which can be

filled out by students

about their experience

at their job placement.

Completed summary

tell us why you loved

your work term, or

why you didn't

Also, SA

like your inpu

you feel th

system is wo

yOll have a co

sheets find their way

into the Career Resource Center inNeedles Hall where they are kept on tile

for future reference by any tudent looking

for a placement.

The only way that an up-to-date

record on jobs can be kept is for summary

sheets to j}e submitted by a large number

sugge tion

down and dro

our box in POETS or E-mag2thomps@mechallical. SA

weekly meetings in SLC

Wednesday afternoon at 4

Anybody is welcome to come ou

their opinion.

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President Report

Well, another

two weeks

have gone by

and a lot has occurred.For those of you

keeping up to date on

the Orifice renovations,

unfortunately the start

date of June 3 has now

changed. It looks like the renovations

will not begin until two weeks after this

date. This is due to a resources problem

in Plant Operations. The new orifice is

still on schedule to be complete for the

Fall term and should be functional for

Frosh week. EngSoc B is looking into

having a grand

Sarah Davies

inclusion of a few clauses to be written

into the new five year agreement. First,

Jostens will agree not to raise their rates

greater than 6% annually. This willprotect us from being stuck in a contract

paying enormous amounts for their

services. Second, an evaluation was

created that app lies criteria including

quality of products and services. This

evaluation would be required each year,

completed by the onstream president and

both yearbook editors before the end of the

winter term. If Jostens receives a poor

evaluation for two consecutive terms, the

engineering society would be lega\1y able

to withdraw from the contract. I have

great faith that this

reopening in

September. It would

be nice if we could

have a lot of EngSoc

A presence at this

this agreement will

benefit the society

agreement will benefit

the society and the

quality of the yearbook.

Jostens has already

event so keep your

eyes and ears open for more news.

At the last Engineering Society

meeting had mentioned the possibility of

signing a five year contract with Jostens in

return for $4000 to go towards computers

for the yearbook editors. The basis of this

contract was voted and passed in that

meeting and Erin Dunphy (EngSoc A 1998

Yearbook Editor) and have worked

closely with Jostens to finalize the details

of this contract. The major concerns of the

Society have been addressed with the

mentioned that

opportuni ties to sign

furthur contracts in the future in order to

upgrade the equipment we will purchase

may arise. We will be trying to pass this

contract at Joint Council and therefore

may have possession of the computers

before the end of this term.

f ~ have any questions or

comments on either the new orifice or the

Jostens agreement please feel free to

contact me at eng-prez@noviceor through

my office hours (Tuesday and Friday

12:30 - 1:30).

VP Internal Report

T he first month

of the summer

term is gone,

and where did it go?

Eac h term is made lip

of twelve weeks of

school and a couple

weeks of exams. The

different season terms

(Winter, Summer, and

Fall) are different in length mainly

because of holidays. Thi . summer there

are just a lillie less than 3 week. of

school. This is due to the three holidays in

the summer term: Victoria Day, Canada

Day (we get two days o ff this year) and the

Civic Holiday (which falls right before

exams). in general, when planning events

for a term there are two main time to

schedule events. These times are usually

the first four weeks before midterms and

then the 8th to II th weeks after midterms

Vlad loanovic

and before finals. As the VPI, tried to

schedu le a lot of events and happenings

during both times. As fo r the fir. t four

weeks which just pa . sed, the weather just

wasn ' t on our side - it was rainy, cold and

always windy, exactly the opposite of

what was expecting, so different events

were postponed. The Dunk Tank, Laser

Quest and the Sleemans Tour had to be

rescheduled for different reasons so watch

out for the new dates . The Official Blotter

is in so pick them up in the Orifice NOW

The Ta k Team ign up list is still up

in the Orifice and you can ign up at any

time, with no commitment.

Thi is the right time to get involved,

so come by the Orifice soon amd find out

what i going on.

Good Luck on Midterms, and to

contact me you can get me at your choice

of: horne 725-2048, Pager 571-5182 or

email eng_vpint@novice.

What s Up in the Arts World?

Leah Nacua

Jenni Tee

Spring 97 rts Directors

The Summer 97 TalEng is corning

up very quickly, and we are looking

for performers. If you like to sing,dance, mime, juggle, contort your body in

weird positions, or just simply like to

entertain people, then we want you

This term's event is scheduled for the

evening of Thursday, July lOth, and will

be held at Fed Hall. Applications are

available at the Orifice or if you d prefer,

email either lenni or Leah the following

information: Name of submitter,

TermlDiscipline, Email address, Phone

number, Type of act (e.g. sing, dance),

Time required for act , Number of

microphones needed (if applicable), Other

equipment you need.

Deadline for applications is Friday,

June 27th at noon. Our email addresses:

lmnacua@chemical (for Leah) and

jatee@novice (for Jenni).

Another major event this month is a

trip to the Stratford theatre At this

moment, plans are still being fmalized, so

the name of the performance is still a big

mystery. The trip will hopefully be on a

weekend in the middle of this

Keep an eye out for poster

announcements to get detail .

There are also two contests go

in June and July. The first one is a

contest. Poems can be about anythi

want; if you want to write about ho

feel towards a person, a place, (tmidterms), feel free to write abo

(Reminder: Poems don t have to

so I m sure you can come up

something). Deadline is noon on

June 27th.

The second event is a photo c

which also has an open theme P

can be in fW or colour, and may

any size. We d like to have a

display at CPH and/or have a show

the Iron Warrior this term. Dig u

favourite photos from years past, o

from this term, and submit them

deadline is Monday, July 14th at

(All photo will be returned to

owners.)

Hand in all contest submission

your name and class name, to th

Directors' Box. (Include also you

address with the photo submis

Prizes are available for the top p

both contests You also earn P 5

just for participating

f you're always on the go take us with you.A pager from Bell Mobility is the easy and affordable

way to stay in the loop.

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June 6, 1997 Internal Information

W FReport

Welcome to

ano t he r

action

packed, information

filled, awe inspiring

article I like to call the

WEEF Report. Okay,

so it is a little low on

the action this time

and the awe just isn t

happenning, but I have oodles of

information for you regarding your

endowment fund.

First off, after the three week period

for reclaiming your donation expired,

Mike Nevill, assistant WEEF director

extraordinaire, tallied up the results and

sorted the information by class, year,

department, and people named Ed. A listof participation rates grouped by

department and year can be found at right.

The total participation rate for all of

undergraduate engineering was 70.6%,

roughly equal to our last term in school. In

dollars, this means that the endowment

fund grew by $73,500 this term. Don' t

forget, that money is your money. Your

WEEF representative is the voice of your

class on where you want your WEEF

money spent.

As most people know by now, we are

having two funding decisions this term,

the regular one worth about $60,000 and a

special funding decision for $100,000. By

the time this article is in print, final

presentations for the $100,000 proposal

will already have been made. The final

decision meeting is scheduled for June

12th. If you don't know the details of each

proposal then you should probably go to

clas more often By now, your WEEF

rep. will have made a presentation to your

class explaining the pros and cons of each

proposal. Briefly, there are two propo also

One involves upgrading all of the

department computer labs to Pentiums.

This would allow all Watstar computers to

run 32bit applications by the fall term.

Paul Cesana

Year

Rate1st

2nd3rd4th

DepartmentRateChemical

Civil

Computer

Eleclrical

Mechanical

Env. Chern.

Env. Civil

Geological

Systems

Other

Partldpalion

74.7%

73.6%66.062.5%

Participation

69.1%

58.1%

65.7%

70.5%

73.7%

73.9%

56.9%

54.2%

83.6%

85.6%

·other includes non·degree I nn

students, exchange students. and

othern not in a specific class.

The second

p r o p o s a l

i n v o l v ecreating a

Silicon

Graphics Lab.

S i i c o n

r a p h i c s

computers are

ex t r eme ly

powerful and

would give

W at e r lo o

Engineering a

virtual reality--________ -- and real-time

simulations lab. Both of these proposals

have strong merits and it is up to you to

decide where you want your $100,000spent. Talk to your WEEF rep. and voice

your concerns. In return, your WEEF rep.

will vote on this matter in accordance with

the class opinion. Get involved in the

decision making process

One last item of business before I

wrap up this column. The regular funding

decision for approximately $60,000 will

be decided upon in mid-July. Proposal

forms will have been made available on

June 2nd. The deadline for submitting a

proposal is July 2nd. Anyone in

undergraduate engineering can submit a

proposal, so if you ve had a lab and

thought, "Man, I wish we had better

equipment," or "Damn, when are they

going to buy a digital garbleblaster like I

used on my workterm?" then submit a

proposal to WEEE Remember, the sole

purpose of WEEF is to improve

undergraduate engineering education, and

who knows what needs improvement

more than the student them elves?

f you have any questions about the

$100,000 proposal, submitting a proposal,

or anything at all about WEEF, e-mail us

at endowment@helix or post a message on

the uw.weef newsgroup. Have a WEEFy

day

On June 21 1997 the Engineering Society will once again be

helping Habitat for Humanity. We are needed to help build a

house for a family in need. This is a great way to help support

members of our community. If you would like to help out, talk to

your class reps or leave amessage in the charities mailbox.

VP xternal Report

Well, we re

into the

e ond

month of our term,

orne of u in

midterm already.

hope e eryone is

surviving and still

having a good time.

Conferences

We've only got one conference this

summer - the Annual General Meeting of

the Engineering Student Societies Council

of Ontario (ESSCO AGM). We publicized

the opening of applications for this (via

signs around engineering buildings and at

EngSoc meeting #1), and we have selected

a delegation. We will be sending WendyBrant, Deb Boyd, Sarah Davies, and

myself. Th e conference is June 6-June 8

so if you would like to bring up a concern

to us, please do it before then.

Engineering Faculty Council

A meeting of the council was held on

May 26. Here are some interesting points

that came up:

The Management Sciences

department is going to offer 8 M.A.Sc in

the field of Management of Technology

through Distance Education. The plans

for this are still in the development stage,

but it may be available st arting this fall.

Our libraries (i.e. Dana Porter and

Davis Centre, for those who don t often

go) are consolidating their holdings with

Guelph and Laurier. The "Tri-Univerisity

Library System" will be up and running

for January 1998. This gives us access to

Nina Sodhi

a enormou olume of literatu

book ,for those who don't often r

Wat tar Computing ha cplan to relea, e Windows 95 on its

code name Elmira. A pilot lab wi

up in July, and the system wide lau

be in September. The dust has et

its been decided that Windows NT

does not have the functionality

need and therefore, we can not sw

it. Look in the IW for an artic

Wat tar Computing explaining

details about this.

Women in Engineering

There wa a dinner held at the

May, and a group of us

brainstorming about ideas. We dec

needed to bring the WIE group cthe forefront and generally i

awareness about the group. So, t

Women in Engineering will be ho

Wine Cheese. It will take plac

beginning of July. Everyone is w

but there is limited capacity so RS

at nksodhi@novice

Updates

Since we re in a summer te

won', have BOfDO eveatshave in other terms. Just in case s

you were holding your breath for

here is a list of events that will

happening this summer: Bridging t

(traditionally not done in the summ

theShadow Program (since there

high school kids around in the sum

Both events will return in fu

next term.

VP Finance Report

T

he Summer 97

budget was

approved lastEngSoc Meeting

(Council Meeting #2)

in a record ten

minutes. Because of

the usual decrease of

about 33% in student

fees (due to the fewer

number of students in the summer a

compared to the fall), many of the

directors received less than they reque ted.

However, they should have enough to

effectively provide their respective

services or functions to make this summer

term as enjoyable as any other term.

Mary Bland, our C D Manager and

all im

newly elect ed Co rporate Mann

doing a fantastic joh She is worki

getling adv'(Lising contracts companies for the yearbook and

have no problems next year wh

starts taking care or our handbook

View-an-Ad, the advertising comp

we relied on in the past f

advertisements for our yearbook

handbook. took 60% of the

received from the companies.

having our Corporate Manag

Engineering Society will receive

(compared to 40%) of the adv

revenue from now on. This w

course, be split between our society

society. But better to split 100

40%, right?



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