As a committee member of the engineering Society, I would like to continue to restore the engineering society to a level similar to the old engineering society because I would have definitely enjoyed having the old engineering society around as a foundation year student and I am almost certainly not alone there.
However, students currently at Brighton University are not all the same students that would have been part of the engineering society, and the engineering society used to do a lot of different things therefore, the exact policies and what prioritize most are dependent on the desires of the engineering society’s current membership base and there are a few new things that I would personally like to see the engineering society doing.
These things are.
1 Getting foundation year students the introductions on equipment that would normally only be provided to first-year students. This would allow foundation year students to apply what their learning better and it would make it feel more like a university and less like a school or sixth-form college to find your students. This would help foundation students prepare for the first year of university better whilst applying the material from GCSE and A-level that is being repeated in a new and more interesting way. Another reason that I think that this would be a good addition to the engineering society is that it would get a constant stream of foundation-year students involved with the society which would make it far less likely to disappear when the people who used to run it graduate.
2 Encouraging group projects and collaborations between students of different years and disciplines. This would help students study different disciplines not only of engineering but also other fields to which engineering can be applied learn from each other and build collaboration skills whilst working on projects and research that they otherwise would not be able to do in isolation. It would also be a good opportunity to go beyond the curriculum of their year whilst applying what they’ve learned in new ways. It could also broaden society’s appeal to non-engineering students and open opportunities to collaborate with other societies.
I'm also standing for VP finance VP Social because based on the available information it might turn out that there is someone else more experienced and better suited to be president of the engineering society. If that is the case, then I am happy to help out as another member of the Committee.