Dear friends in CHBE and UBC,
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and an awesome Year 2016!
Best wishes,
Jun, President of CHBE Graduate Student Council 2015/2016
Taken from http://howtonestforless.com/2013/12/24/merry-christmas-happy-new-year-free-printable/
Dear all graduate students, faculty and staff members of CHBE,
you are invited to the annual CHBE Christmas Lunch Party!
This year we are doing the event in the Saint John College Dining Hall!
The event details are:
Date and Time: December 9, 2015 at 12:30PM – 3:00PM
Location: Saint John College, van der Linden Dining Hall, 2111 Lower Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Ticket price: $5
Please RSVP by emailing jslee@chbe.ubc.ca and sayakar@chbe.ubc.ca.
The event will start with all the participants dining together. Then we will have a quick networking session where grad students and faculty and will be asked to will be asked to rotate tables every 15 minutes. For faculty and staff, there is no cost to attend and all registered participants will receive the Classic Canadian Turkey meal.
Please state if you like a vegeterian meal.
It is a great chance for graduate students to get to know more about the CHBE faculty and staff members.
Contact Prof. Naoko Ellis (naoko.ellis@ubc.ca)
1) CHBE Grad Mentors:
There are ~10 new grads starting in CHBE this fall. Initial training will be provided. Plus, you will have a Starbucks gift card so that you can take your mentees out for coffee a few times over the year. This initiative will allow new CHBE grads to feel welcomed and continue to become successful graduate students. This is a one year (Sept, 2015 – Aug, 2016) commitment. Upon successful completion, you will be able to include this activity in your CV, and we will be happy to provide a support letter highlighting your contribution to building a supportive CHBE graduate student community. First come, first serve. Please email Naoko (naoko.ellis@ubc.ca) for more info or to sign up.
2) Engineering Mentoring Program, APSC
APSC is providing mentoring program to connect you with industry. The deadline to apply is Sept 25. For more info: http://students.engineering.ubc.ca/mentoring-upper-years
For both of these opportunities, there will be a section to log this activity on your annual progress report towards professional development/leadership experience. I hope you consider taking part in these opportunities.
The joint CHBE/Vantage College Search Committee has reviewed an initial list of applicants for the post of Instructor for Vantage College and CHBE teaching. Four candidates have been invited for interview to UBC. The candidates will be presenting mock lectures and a sample syllabus and there is an opportunity for students to meet with each candidate.
The final two interview dates are as follows:
• Tuesday, July 14 Dr. Deniz Nasuhoglu
• Wednesday, July 15 Dr. Gabriel Potvin
You are invited to attend the mock interviews and to meet the candidates.
All events are in CHBE Rm 202.
Time Event
11:00am – 12:00pm Undergraduate mock lecture “Molecular and Intermolecular Bonds”
1:45 – 2:45 pm Undergraduate mock lecture “Energy Conservation Equation for Tubular Flow Reactors”
3:00 – 3:30 pm Meet with CHBE Graduate, CHBE and Vantage College students
As we are approaching the summer and daylight getting longer along with the temperature getting higher, we would like to invite you for the challenging Stawamus Chief hiking on 7th June, 2015.
What is the plan?
10:00 am: gathering at CHBE main floor
10:00 am-11:00 am: driving to the destination
11:15 am-5:00pm: hiking activity
6:00 pm-7:00 pm gathering back to the parking areaFees?
10$ including the gas+ little snack
Drivers with cars don’t pay the fees (cheers!) and will be also reimbursed for the gas.
Snacks will be arranged but bring your own lunch. Please RSVP for the event by 2nd June to GSC Sport Vice President Majed by an email to malamoudi@chbe.ubc.ca. We are looking forward to more drivers with cars.
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Dear friends,
I wish to officially announce the executive members of CHBE Graduate Student Club. I hope we will have an engaging year ahead.
2015/2016 Executive members:
President: Jun Sian Lee
Secretary: Lucie Solnickova
VP Communications and TA union rep: Sonal Ayakar
VP Fundraising: Robertus Dhewangga
VPs Academic: Vasiliy Triandafilidi (GSS Councillor of CHBE) & Shiva
VP Social: Aigerim Ongalbayeva
VPs Sports: Majid Al Amoudi & Fuhar Dixit
Committee members: Long Bill Cheng, Chen Zhao, Majid Keshavarzfathy, Roza Ghaemi
MEng/MEL Rep: Lius Daniel
Undergrad Liason: Frank Nkansah
Grad Lounge Manager: (Saad) Mohammad Dara & Sean Mcbeath
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Jun Sian Lee
President | Chemical & Biological Engineering Graduate Student Club Committee 2015/2016
Message from Max Yu Wang, President of CHBE GSC 2014/2015, chair of election committee.
Made by Sonal Ayakar, VP Communications
Dear friends:
As the school term approaches its end, we invite you to come to GSC 2015’s election for a new president on April 27th at 12:30 pm. During the election, a BBQ and a drink will be provided to you.
The new president will have the entire May to form his/her executive team.
If you want to nominate yourself for the position, please notify me via email (ywang@chbe.ubc.ca) before April 20th. The candidates are required to participate in the organization of the BBQ and talk to other graduate students during the BBQ till the election is done.
Sincerely yours,
Yu Wang
Message from Frances Torrey Sirdevan, Vice-President of Sponsorship AIChE Pacific Northwest 2015
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers is an organization made up of Chemical Engineering students, for Chemical Engineering students. On April 17th-19th, 2015, CHBE will be hosting AIChE’s Pacific North-west regional conference. Undergraduate student leaders from across the Pacific Northwestern region of the US and Canada will gather to Connect the Dots of their past and present learning experiences in efforts to build sustainable, bright futures.
Throughout the conference, we will be hosting four exciting competitions: 1. Chem-E-Car 2. Paper presentation 3. Poster Presentation 4. Chem-E-Jeopardy We are looking for graduate students who would be interested in judging our competitions and being involved with our conference on either/both April 18th and April 19th, 2015.
Please contact us if you are interested: Torrey Sirdevan Vice-President of Sponsorship AIChE Pacific Northwest 2015. ftssirdevan@gmail.com.
Thank-you all for coming out to the town hall meeting. I hope it has served you in some way. I will be processing your input for the next few weeks, and sharing them with the faculty over the retreat. I look forward to starting a dialogue and working with many of you in the near future.
One thing that came to me after the session was this challenge of bringing all stakeholders of CHBE together to work towards common goals. The potential barriers that are present can be personal, situational, institutional, etc. I hope that we can work together to minimize many those barriers. We need all of you to recognize where you can make a difference and take charge.
To share my wish…. is to co-create an intellectual community that supports rich educational experience for all in CHBE.
I appreciated Vernique coming out and sharing her point of view. I loved the story of her being rescued when wind surfing, and tying it in with her message of knowing your goals – i.e., know where you are headed.
I hope the graduate lounge reno completes soon, giving us a change to gather again and celebrate.
The slides are posted in Doc Central which is accessible from logging into CHBE IT site. Thanks for those who came early to help set up. I was disappointed to see those who only came for food at the end.
Until next time!
Cheers,
naoko
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