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POWE: Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering

Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering (POWE) is a student-run club dedicated to creating an open community to support self-identifying female engineers. Operating under the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS), POWE has two main portfolios and goals: providing resources and running events to help current engineering students at Â鶹AV with professional development, and encouraging younger girls to pursue engineering and STEM careers through a variety of outreach events.

Volunteering opportunities:

Caravan visits to CEGEPs around Montreal: Answer questions from students interested in architecture, engineering, or urban planning at Â鶹AV.

Shadow Days: Help a CEGEP student experience a typical engineering student day at Â鶹AV.

Conference for Future Women Engineers: Create a memorable day for Montreal High School students who want to learn about engineering! Lead a lab tour, be a student panelist or mingle with high school students during lunch!

Mentoring: Become a mentor for the em(POWE)r program, where you will help and support an entering U0/U1 engineering students.

And much more!

If you are looking to get involved, you can send an email to . For more information on our initiatives, you can visit the or the !

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Click here to view an image gallery of POWE's 2017 Speed Networking Conference

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EUS Equity

EUS Equity

Â鶹AV’s EUS Equity Committee promotes diversity, inclusion and social equity in Engineering at Â鶹AV.

Social equity states that everyone should have access to the same resources and be able to succeed in our society. In comparison to 'equality', when all people are given the same resources, 'equity' takes into consideration people’s identities, experiences, and the systematic barriers that affect how they move through society. In summary: “Equality is giving everyone shoes; Equity is giving everyone shoes that fit.â€

The committee organizes discussions about how to make our university environment more inclusive. The group talks about issues regarding gender identity, race, sexual orientation, ability, mental health, universal design, teaching, learning, and much more. EUS Equity conducts equity training for student leaders to incorporate equity values within our engineering culture. Additionally, the equity committee creates spaces in which students can discuss with professionals the current state of the engineering and tech industry and how, as students, we can also impact industry.Ìý The committee also works with professors to coordinate our efforts to increase diversity in engineering at Â鶹AV.

If you would like to get involved, feel free to equity [at] mcgilleus.ca (email the Equity Commissioner) or message the committee on the EUS Equity facebook page.



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National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE) - Â鶹AV Chapter

NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers) Â鶹AV is a student group under the Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS, whose mission is to increase the number of culturally responsible black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community. NSBE Â鶹AV does many outreach events in the Montreal community, such as their annual A Walk for Education (AWFE). AWFE is an outreach event where NSBE forges relationships with students in underprivileged neighborhoods and encourages young students to pursue further education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). NSBE Â鶹AV works closely with community centres in the Little Burgundy borough of Montreal.

For more information, please consult the

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Queer Engineer (QE)

Queer Engineer offers a welcoming space for queer engineering students. We organize social, career and volunteering events such as, nights out, speed networking and volunteering at blood donations respectively. For more information, please consult .

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American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

The mission of the is to substantially increase the representation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, First Nations and other indigenous peoples of North America in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) studies and careers.

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For further opportunities to get involved check information on .


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Meet an undergrad student

Hillary Williams

Hillary Williams
Materials Engineering

I picked Â鶹AV for my program. It's fairly unique to Â鶹AV, it has co-op, and materials are really cool! But I also picked Â鶹AV for the motivated student body that would be around me, supporting me. Meet Hillary

Meet a professor and alumna

Nathalie Tufenkji

Nathalie Tufenkji
Professor

I was inspired to pursue a degree in chemical engineering because of my interest in the development of technologies for environmental remediation and water treatment. Meet Professor Tufenkji

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Meet an undergrad student

Mariam Hachem

Mariam Hachem
Chemical Engineering

I came to Â鶹AV because of its leading reputation and the vast amount of opportunities to experience leadership and gain a strong reputation of successful individuals. Meet Mariam

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