Congratulations to the following students who have been elected onto the 2009 UEC Committee.

The UEC would like to congratulate Mr Samuel Cleary for being awarded the Barry Armour Memorial Award for 2008. We hope he enjoys this experience and becomes only the 2nd winner in recent years to make it to the top of the mountain!

The UEC would like to congratulate one of its recent Alumni for being awarded the WA Young Professional Engineer of the Year by the Engineers Australia WA Division. Vaughn Grey was on the UEC committee for two years during his time as an undergraduate and once graduating, has dedicated much of his time to the WA Chapter of Engineers Without Boarders. Vaughn currently works for SKM as a Mechanical Engineer. 

We wish him all the best for the nationals!

Tickets for Quiz Night are now available from the common room, 1-2pm daily. The Annual Quiz Night has been completely revamped and is being held on the 17th October.

• Tables of 6, in crazy costumes;
• Many chances for individuals to win prizes on top of your team;
• So far we have over $3000 worth of prizes!

See here for more information...

The National Tertiary Education Industry Union (NTEU) is currently running their Our Universities Matter campaign. The way universities are run and how their staff are treated does impact our education. NTEU seeks the support of staff, universities and the wider community in campaigning for real change to tertiary education in Australia. The campaign aims include:

Do you want to be more involved in the UEC in 2008, or does one of your friends?  Then read on...

To nominate for a position you must fill out a nomination form and put it in the Nominations Box in the engineering common room by 5pm, Friday, 10th October. Nomination forms can be obtained from the engineering common room, or can be downloaded below.  If you have any queries regarding a role please refer to the attachment, UEC constitution or the person who has held that role in 2008.  For queries regarding nominating, voting or other aspects of the election process, please refer to the UEC constitution or use the online contact form.

The UEC has won Club Olympics for the first time in a few years. After years of coming "this close" we have finally cracked it!

Though not strictly sporting, the road to Club Olympics glory was long and messy. The Tug-of-War, Boat Races, individual 2L men's milk skull, individual 500ml women's milk skull and rhythmic gymnastics were worthy wins. But it seems the UEC can not drive or pedal due to poor performance in the Mario Kart Racing and three legged spoon race. Overall victory was secured with an draw for first in paint fighting, a win for the women's jelly wrestling and a second in body painting.

As a prelude to the final Interfaculty sport of the year, Athletics, the Great Run was held on Tuesday, 2nd September. Four competitors for the UEC took part and we would like to congratulate Thomas Bruins and Monique Hollick for winning the men's and women's competition!

A big thank you must go out to our other competitors for securing valuable points, Max Daube and SJ Robinson. Results of Interfaculty Sport 2008 will be released soon.

Finally, anyone who has competed in Interfaculty Sport during 2008 is invited to our Sport Windup, 10th September from 1-2pm behind ELT1. Enerflex, our sport sponsor, will also be in attendance. A FREE BBQ will be run by our wonderful Sport Reps. 

The only recently discovered "Golden Ticket" is your pass to every single UEC social event for the next 12 months! Ball? You're there! Cocktail? Looking Sharp! Pub Crawl 1? Oh yeah! Pub Crawl 2? Interrobang! Quiz Night? No worries! A year dinner that is appropriate to your age group? Probably!

How can this amazing prize be yours? All you have to do is design next years UEC shirt.

We are sorry to inform you that the 2008 Western Power Cocktail Party has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.

We will be refunding all tickets sold beginning Monday August 18th, from 1-2pm daily outside the Engineering common room.  Please pass this information on to anybody who has purchased a ticket. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.