The SSOE Enginews

ISSUE 06 October 2015

MONTHLY UPDATES AND UPCOMING EVENTS HELD BY STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

IN THE SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

This Issue:

Pumpkin Flavored EVERYTHING

Its pumpkin season! Pumpkin pie, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin
donuts! Theres even tons of pumpkin themed events happening in SSOE with ESCs Fall Fest and IEEEs pumpkin
carving!
Youll also want to mark your calendars for ESCs annual
Rocky Horror Picture Show youll find more information on
this event and many others in this issue of the Enginews.
As always, the Enginews is brought to you by Pitts Engineering Student Council (ESC). As the umbrella organization for all SSOE orgs, it is our goal to keep you informed
and help you get involved.

ESC

Calendar

SWE

Phi Sigma Rho

BMES

IEEE

ASME

EWB

Triangle

Contact ESC

Engineering Student Council (ESC)

About ESC:
Engineering Student Council is a close-knit organization that encourages both social and professional
growth for our members. We achieve this with a variety of activities held each year. We have been
awarded Best Engineering
Student Council in the nation two years in a row! We
have a bunch of events
planned in October that we
hope youre all very excited for! You can find more
information about these

Upcoming Activities
General Body Meeting 3October 7th, 9pm, G30
General Body Meeting 4October 21st, 9pm, G30
Fall FestOctober 23rd, 11am-1pm, Benedum Patio
Rocky Horror Picture ShowOctober 27th, 8:30pm,
WPU Assembly Room

ESC Sponsorship Spotlight

Chevron is a Platinum level
sponsor of ESC. This corporation offers a wide range of energy-related products including
petroleum, lubricants, plastics,
and oils. Chevron offers jobs
here and abroad that are of special interest to chemical
(especially petroleum), civil,
electrical, and mechanical engineering majors--go look them up
to learn more!
www.chevron.com

Past Event Highlight

ESC Mentor/Mentee Event

ESC launched its new and improved

mentor-mentee program and our first
event was a great success. Mentors and
mentees went to the Carnegie Museum
of Natural History!

Engineering Student Council

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Give yourself over to absolute
pleasure at this annual ESC
event. This screening of the
Rocky Horror Picture Show includes a shadow cast, prop bags
for the audience, and popcorn.
Tuesday October 27th
Doors open at 8:30. Show
starts at 9pm.
WPU Assembly Room
Its a guaranteed party!

Fall Fest
Come out and celebrate fall at another classic ESC event.
Therapy dogs will be there along
with Kan Jam and other lawn games.
Were hoping to have some snacks
and cider too, so be sure to stop by
and see whats going on.
Friday October 23rd
11am1pm

Benedum Patio

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ASME BBQ

ESC Sponsorship Spotlight

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ESC GBM

SWE GBM

IEEE GBM

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Phi Rho Fundraiser

Chevron is a Platinum level sponsor

of ESC. This corporation offers a
wide range of energy-related products including petroleum, lubricants,
plastics, and oils. Chevron offers jobs
here and abroad that are of special
interest to chemical (especially pe16
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majors--go
MSEDlook
them up to learn more!

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ESC GBM

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Fall Fest

IEEE GBM

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IEEE Pumpkin
Carving?

IEEE Pumpkin
Carving?

IEEE Pumpkin
Carving?

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Rocky Horror
Picture Show

Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Happy Fall everyone!
1. Upcoming Events
a. General Body Meeting
i. Our 2nd General Body Meeting is Thursday October 8th from
8:00-9:00 pm.
ii. Get caught up on SWEs events and future events we have
planned. Plus free pizza!
b. MSED
i. Middle School Engineering Day (MSED) is on Saturday 10/17.
ii. Check out our website for more details to sign up!
2. Societal Conference
a. Your e-board and SWE members will be traveling to the National
SWE Conference this month in Nashville, TN on Oct 21st Oct 24th!

Phi Sigma RhoSocial Engineering Sorority ()

This has been such an exciting month for Phi Sigma Rho! We went
"Geocaching" with the girl scouts, had our outdoorsy semester retreat, and participated in Panhel's Hazing Prevention Week. We celebrated our national
Founder's Day on the 24th (Happy 31st Birthday PSR) with our actives, candidates and alumnae. Oh... and did I mention that we inducted eight new wonderful girls into the Alpha
Zeta candidate class!?
Look out for our fundraiser on October 15th! All
you have to do is come
enjoy some yummy Five
Guys from 5-8pm and

Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)

1. Record Number of Undergraduates Attending National Conference: This year, the Bioengineering Department at Pitt is sending 44 undergraduate students to the National Biomedical Engineering Society Conference in Tampa Florida! Good luck to all those presenting!
2. Successful BMES Kayaking Social: Last Saturday, we had close to 40
students attend our BMES Kayaking Social on the North Shore. It was a
great day with some even greater people. Keep an eye out for fun social
events to come.
3. Upcoming Outreach and Service Events: We have a lot of great outreach events coming up. We will be volunteering at Global Links in November (Dates TBD) as well as organizing other events. If you're interested in
getting involved with some of these projects, contact pittbmes@gmail.com

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

This month IEEE will be holding general body meetings on October 7th & 21st. Also Pumpkin Carving
is tentatively scheduled for October 22-24. If you would like to be added
to IEEEs emailing list, you can contact us at ssoeieee@gmail.com.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

ASME will be hosting a BBQ as its first informal gathering of the semester
on Benedum Patio from 12-2 on Thursday, October 1st! All MechEs are
welcome to attend. See you there!

Engineers Without Borders (EWB)

Come join us to work on fundraising for our projects,
implementing an urban garden for a Food Pantry in
Oakland, or designing our water treatment system
for our project in the Brazilian Amazon! Contact us
with any questions or to be added to our email
list, ewb.usa.pitt@gmail.com.

Fundraising Meetings: Tues. 7:15, Benedum Einstein's

Local Project Meetings: Tues 8:30, Benedum G28
International Project Meetings: Thurs. 7:00, Benedum G28

Contact PittESC:
Email:
PittESC@gmail.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/
UPittESC
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/PittESC

Website:

Pitt ESC

http://pittesc.weebly.com

ESC OFFICE HOURS (G32B):

Enginews

MON: 11:00am--3:00pm

ISSUE 06 October 2015

TUES: 8:00am-12:30pm, 2:30pm-3:30pm

WED: 11:30am-3:00pm
THURS: 9:00am-12:30pm, 2:30pm-3:00pm
FRI: 11:00am-12:00pm, 1:00pm-3:00pm

To submit an event for the SSOE newsletter, please send

an email to pittesc@gmail.com before the 1st of each
month with a short description of your event!