People

This section includes a list of the people who help run WEEF:

 The Board of Directors
 The Funding Council
 The WEEF Staff

The Board of Directors

The WEEF Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing the foundation, approval of funding decisions and bylaw changes, and the setting of WEEF policy. They usually meet once a term. More information about the Board's responsiblities can be found in Section 4 of our Constitution.

The board must, by constitution, include a minimum of two-thirds students.

Current Members:

  • Dean of Engineering - Adel Sedra
  • WEEF Director (Society A) - Brock Kopp
  • WEEF Director (Society B) - Laurin Benson
  • President - Engineering Society A - Timothy Bandura
  • President - Engineering Society B - Scott Rankin
  • Student Representatives:
    • Chanakya Gupta (Society A)
    • Stuart Pearson (Society A)
    • Vacant (Society A)
    • Caitlin Ho (Society B)
    • Matthew Bester (Society B)
    • Cailin Hillier (Society B)
    • Vacant (Architecture)
    • Yvonne Cheng (Member at Large)
  • Alumni Representatives:
    • Denis Viens
    • Matthew Stevens
    • Vacant

The Funding Council

The Funding Council members (AKA WEEF Class Reps) have the critical role of deciding where WEEF's funding goes. They typically meet twice a term: once to hear presentations by those who have requested funding, and a second time to vote on which proposals should be allocated money. Any constitutional or bylaw changes must also be approved by them. As class representatives, they act as liasions between the student body and WEEF, helping to identify student concerns, and ensuring that WEEF funding goes to student-chosen priorities.

More information about the Funding Council can be found in Section 7.0 of our Constitution.

If the following information is incorrect, please inform the WEEF Director.

Current Funding Council Members: (This list is under construction as of Winter 2011)

  2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Architecture
 Sayjel Patel Brent Carson Vacant Vacant Vacant
Chemical - 4
 Forogh Askari
Ryan McCreight
Kirby Skinn
Cristina Maiocco		 Vacant Michael Gu Mike Hammond, Keegan Skoretz Lydia Terisno
Chemical - 8
 May Anka
Alexandra (Alex) Baruzdina		 Nadine Hariri Vacant Jersey Guo, Brandon Schott George Fan
Civil
 Peter Kelly Alexa Baker Kyle Fritz Greg Burns, Matthew Chan J.C. Silvera, Greg Lue
Computer
 Arthur Gawronski Jack Wang Eric Jia, Luke Shum Patrick Mikolajczak,Charlie Ou Yung Behzad Reyhani, Ludwig Di Bartholomew, Kay Srimohanarajah, Victor Monivk

Electrical - 4

 Vacant Vacant Vacant Curtis Jones, Peilu Gan Behzad Reyhani, Ludwig Di Bartholomew, Kay Srimohanarajah, Victor Monivk

Electrical - 8

 Vacant Skanda Shridhar Ali Ali Mahmoun, Thebe Parsons, Eddie Hao Xin Jin,Tony Huang Jesse Brick, Yubo Qin
Environmental
 Adam Schneider Shaba Shringi Vacant Nish Logeswaran, Rob Reid Luke McLeod, Elizabeth Forean
Geological
 Adam Schneider Greg Gambino Vacant Wil Hanson, Diana Gomezr Luke McLeod, Elizabeth Forean
Management
 Florens Acevedo Victoria Osler Hamza Mahmood, Joel kanein Michael Chao
Mechanical - 4
 Will Bucholtz Adli Nureddin Vacant Dominic Toselli, David Herman Abhay Fernandez, Harry Hall
Mechanical - 8
 Catlin Ho Vacant Vdodymyr Nesterov Vacant Stephen Jones, Kysen Leo
Mechatronics
 Chanakya Gupta Nikhil Sharma Sean Walsh Ali Jahed, Kal Sobel Trever Kearse, Rahul Patel
Nano
 Yvonne Cheng Curtis Luong William Francis Roy Lee, Abbas Abdel Wahab Noah MacCollum, Time Rodgers
Software
 Tyler Szabo Diana Pavel Karol Tinsley Charlie Cui, Shaon Bhuiyan Vacant
Systems
 Candy Wong Mohan Thomas Daniel Arrizza Salah Shahin Sonu Lall

Where Orange = On Campus and Blue = On Co-op


The WEEF Staff

The WEEF staff are responsible for the day to day administration of the Foundation including processing refunds, promoting WEEF, distributing allocated funds and answering inquiries. The WEEF Director's responsibilities extend to chairing the Funding Council Meetings, the Board of Directors Meetings and the Annual General Meeting, and to managing and overseeing all work not directly under the Board or the Funding Council. The director is supported each term by a team of assistant directors and by Mary Bland, executive assistant to WEEF.