August 2012 - engsoc-committee@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

[Engsoc-Committee] Events
by Luke Scales 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Hey everyone, Hope you are all enjoying the last of your holidays! As you all know I was fairly withdrawn from the society at the end of the last semester with my absence from college and personal things etc. This year, however, I want to completely fulfill my role and bring us a whoptastic line of events to entice new members and keep both new and established members happy! Firstly I have some questions: to those of you who know the societal ropes a bit better (i.e Kav, Laura and Eoin), would it be possible to alter our values/rules/codes of conduct thing so that it includes some social aspects? And if so, would everyone be okay with that? The reason I ask is because at our last meeting with the clubs & soc officer they said they would not be happy with us if we kept holding events that were nothing to do with our values, yet I would still like for us to hold more social events like the beerpong event as it would be a fantastic way for our new engineers to get to know each other and also the other students on campus. Sometimes that little icebreaker is needed. It would also bring a bit of fun into the society, and not to mention allow a lot of the engineers who are not the snowsports type to experience the wonder of college life that is beerpong - and we would cater for those that don't drink alcohol, an added incentive in comparison to snowsports. What do you guys think of having more social events in general? Aside from this, Killian suggested that we take the first years out to town for a bit of a pub crawl to let them get to know each other, what does everyone think? In an "underground" manner as we can't advertise these events. I agreed with you at the time Killian, as I was running out the door, but having thought about it it may be problematic. Being first years a lot of them may be under age, it could be messy for those that decide to drink and don't know their limits, and if Clubs & Socs find out their may be murder. I still like the essence of the idea, bring the first years to town for some socialising, maybe cinema or for food or bowling? What say ye?? Anyway I would like to plan and execute a robot wars event in first semester, so I would like to have our list of materials prepared in advance to make the request as soon as we're back. Are we going to have a meeting before the scavenger hunt, and if so do you think we should compile this list then or beforehand? Has anyone on the committee ever contacted the health and safety department with regards to an event? We would need advertisement planned and to decide on a date and book a venue, but I guess we could cover these at our first meeting? Apologies for so many questions, but feel free to suggest any other events and please give me feedback. Regards, -- Luke

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[Engsoc-Committee] Trip!
by Kilian Dolan 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Sorry to be bothering everyone with the recent spate of emails, but i've little else to be at. Was chatting to Chigozie yesterday and he mentioned a trip abroad, I had been thinking about it earlier yesterday, and I thought about a joint trip with the Aviation soc to Toulouse to the Airbus factory. Chigozie liked the idea, so I sent a message to the chair of the aviation soc to gauge interest. ( I made it clear that it was only an idea, and it wasn't anything official.) Anyway here's what we were saying - *Kilian Dolan <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan>* - Hey, I was at the newcastle trip and what not. Anyway, I'm on the Engineering Soc. Committee, and we were talking about trips abroad with another guy, on facebook. Now I stress that this is very much under the table, and is nothing more than a brainstorm, and I'm asking you here, and not on emails or anything, but what would you say the aviation soceity's interest would be in organising with us, a joint trip to toulouse to the Airbus factory? Something you could look into? Or a definitly not? We just had this thought between ourselves and that we could run it with you guys. Thoughts? - [image: Paul Heylin] <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin> 21 hours ago *Paul Heylin <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin>* - Hi Killian, Toulouse has always been brought up as a possIble trip for the society. We actually looked into it last year but flights from Dublin seemed to be a big problem.. it's definitely something that we would be interested in and especially working with the engineering soc. A joint trip to Toulouse would be great if we could get reasonable prices and dates. I'll mention it to the committee as well.. but it's definitely something worth looking into! - [image: Kilian Dolan] <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan> 21 hours ago *Kilian Dolan <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan>* - flights to carcassonne in january after exams each way are around €70, plus a train (11-15 ish) to toulouse means return flights for 180 ish, a guy on the committee said the slc will probably cover 150 ish, so we could end up with transport for 35 - [image: Paul Heylin] <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin> 21 hours ago *Paul Heylin <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin>* - never thought of Carcassone airport tbh, only ever tried Toulouse. It seems like a great idea, and i dont see why the committee would have any problems with that. I'm going to post it on the committee facebook page and see what they say. - [image: Kilian Dolan] <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan> 21 hours ago *Kilian Dolan <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan>* - Good stuff, We haven't really told ours yet, but I'll bring it up at the first meeting, and I can't say if it'll happen or if they'll be interested, but I'll keep you posted. We're probably going to meet before term starts at any rate. - [image: Paul Heylin] <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin> 21 hours ago *Paul Heylin <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin>* - Ok thanks! Getting good responses so far, we're using facebook to communicate until our first meeting in Week 1. We had Toulouse down as a possible trip again for this year and now knowing we can get cheaper flights with ryanair, its something that we would love to fo! It would be great to get involved the engineering soc too! - [image: Kilian Dolan] <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan> 21 hours ago *Kilian Dolan <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan>* - yeah defo, and the SLC would be more likely to give us more dosh if we had the two socs! - [image: Paul Heylin] <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin> 20 hours ago *Paul Heylin <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin>* - well i've received very positive feedback from committee so you can let your committee know that we are definitely interested. It's a great idea! - [image: Kilian Dolan] <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan> 20 hours ago *Kilian Dolan <https://www.facebook.com/kilian.dolan>* - cheers! - I've no idea yet if we can even get into the site, they could be well secretive and 9/11 paranoid, but we'll give it a stab. - [image: Paul Heylin] <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin> 20 hours ago *Paul Heylin <https://www.facebook.com/pheylin>* they do guided tours of the factory, it's all on their website.. let me know what your committee have to say when ye next meet! ttyl! [image: smile] So anyway: They seemed all for it, it'll need more looking into, and toulouse is a big enough city so there'll be plenty to do and go to. Plus the train from Carcassonne is on a TGV line, so if we pay an extra 2 euro we can get on a TGV! It seems achieveable, and i've plenty of experience in French and booking things in French and on what to do in France, and what not, so I'm sure it'll be pretty easily organised! Let me know what you think. K.

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[Engsoc-Committee] Website
by Kilian Dolan 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

Hey Guys, I've a number of changes I'd like to propose for the website. I've had a few days off from work, so I've been making it better and changing some things on it, because I felt that some of next-year's first-years might be looking it up, and we need to make a good impression. I was making it more easy to use, correcting some of the language, adding pages, and improving the overall look of it. Firstly I propose this: - The more people that we get onto the website, means the more they view an actual content by us, (i.e. not a page on facebook, and not an email). This means that they are actually fully exposed to the "engsoc" rather than just another post on their newsfeed, or another email in their inbox. What I say we do is, anything we are putting on, any event, any tutorial, any survey, write up about it on the website, and link people to it from our facebook page. This way we can cram a lot of photos, and nice looking text into it, rather than it being just another post. This is the hit counter for today, try and guess when I posted a link to the website on the engsoc page, (bear in mind 300 odd people like our page, so that's nearly a third of them clicking in one hour...) [image: Inline image 1] Secondly, everybody should post to the website. Arsalan gave you all codes to log in and post "posts" so we all should. I got rid of a load of what I felt were useless posts about unrelated things in engineering, so only relevant things please. If we're organising something, post about it. Thirdly, when we are doing something, P.R.O. - Bríd (or somebody) should be taking photos that we can post. The photos section of the website was surprisingly one of the top viewed pages today, and it will show people "the craic" that they miss out on when they don't attend events. Fourthly, the domain name engsoc.ie is available. Arsalan - could you please look into how much it would cost to lease it? In years to come i'm sure it'd be great that we have such a good domain name before other Engineering Societies in Ireland. Fifthly, I replied to the guy from TCD that wanted to set up an intersocs engineering comp. I said we were all for it, and reminded him that robot based would be good as DCU only has the school of mechanical engineering and electronic. I'll keep you posted if he replies anything interesting. Lastly, since this morning we have nearly 200 hits. Wahey! Let me know what you all think. K -- EE2 Engineering Society Committee DCU-Drama - Technical Officer

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[Engsoc-Committee] First Years Engineering Day
by Ian Kavanagh 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Hi, Are we doing anything for the incoming first years during orientation week like we did last year? Is mise le meas, Ian

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[Engsoc-Committee] Pan-Dublin Engineering Society Competition
by Kilian Dolan 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

Hey guys, After looking at the pending comments on the website that people left, (most were spam) I found this one, which was unapproved, and nobody had looked at it. Alright Fellow engineers, I am the auditor for the engineering society Trinity College and I was thinking about for next year how about we organize a competition between a ourselves ucd maybe dit. I think that each year there should be a university competition between the different Engineering societies in each college. Looking forward to your response. Imar Coleman The address he gave was *Imar Coleman* 0 approved colemani(a)tcd.ie 134.226.254.162<http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~engsoc/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?s=134.226.254…> So it isn't spam. Firstly this sounds great, Secondly, he sent it during July, and it wasn't looked at. This is a bit of a problem. Thirdly, he commented on a page on the website, so our contact us section definitely needs to be updated. Let me know what you think. K

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