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Winter 2012 News

The nomination period for Spring 2012 Directorship has ended. Congratulations to Stephane Hamade on being acclaimed to the position.


MEF Director
Nominations for the Fall 2012 MEF Director are now being accepted.

The deadline is Friday, March 23rd, 2012.

Application forms are available: .docx, .pdf.


Funding Proposals
Proposals for the Winter 2012 term are now being accepted. Proposals are due on Friday, March 2nd.

See the Funding Proposals page for more information about submitting an online proposal.


Funding Council
Applications for the Winter 2012 Funding Council are now being accepted. The deadline is Monday, March 5th, 2012.

Nomination forms are available: .docx, .pdf.


Refunds

The refund period for Winter 2012 ends on January 20th. Please note that we are unable to refund contributions made in prior or future terms.

You can access the online refund form here.

The Professional Development Fund finances students taking part in conferences, workshops, etc.

Applications are available: .docx, .pdf.


The MEF brochure can be found under the Resources section.


The list of projects funded for the Winter 2011 term is now available.

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30-12:50 Drop by if you have a question or want to learn more about MEF.

The MEF office has moved to M3 1004.


Projects Funded - $1,054,643.34

Fall 2011 - $31,500.29

Spring 2011 - $20,227.36

Winter 2011 - $21,970.00

Fall 2010 - $24,860.00

  • $5000.00 - MATH 136 - Course notes
  • $1600.00 - Computer Science Club - KVM Switch
  • $5400.00 - ASNA - Convention attendance
  • $300.00 - UW Stargazers - Telescope equipment
  • $660.00 - FARMSA - Club computer
  • $1100.00 - FARMSA - Books/Study materials
  • $300.00 - UW Rocketry Team - Rocket materials
  • $3675.00 - CS 449 (HCI) - Teaching equipment
  • $1950.00 - AMATH 361 - Tanks, camera
  • $675.00 - PMAMC&O Club - Travel for Field's Undergrad Network Talks
  • $1000.00 - PMAMC&O Club - Textbooks for club library
  • $3000.00 - CUSEC - Conference attendance
  • $200.00 - ActSci Club - Study manual and textbook

Spring 2010 - $13,663.35

Winter 2010 - $10,000.00

Fall 2009 - $9,567.63

Spring 2009 - $22,500

Winter 2009 - $23,225.52

Fall 2008 - $45,500

Summer 2008 - $48,853.25

Winter 2008 - $64,766.59

Fall 2007 - $66,976.21

Spring 2007 - $15 148.00

Winter 2007 - $62 093.51

Fall 2006 - $27,906.39

Spring 2006 - $45,445

  • $3,835 - STAT 443 - Online testing materials
  • $3,500 - Support students attending CUMC conference
  • $800 - Math Business Double Degree Club - New computer
  • $600 - Computer Science Club - Linux CDs for first-year students
  • $1,408.69 - AM - Data acquisition board for demonstration
  • $7,695 - CS 350 - Hire TA to investigate moving from NachOS to Linux or FreeBSD
  • $8,174.51 - MFCF - Nexus client machines
  • $4,579.30 - MFCF - New student.math web server
  • $5,702.50 - MFCF - New xterm front end server
  • $4,000 - PM 464/664 - New course notes
  • $3,200 - iGEM (Intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine) Team - Supplies for competition
  • $250 - iGEM Team - Recruitment of mathematics students
  • $1,700 - UW Robotics Team - Equipment

Winter 2006 - $44,000

  • $8,320 - CS - New Database Course Assignments
  • $1,600 - CS - Analyse Attrition Survey Results
  • $23,281.39 - CSCF - iMac Monitor Upgrade
  • $4,368 - PM - Math 147/148 Course Notes
  • $4,230.61 - UWAFT - ChallengeX
  • $2,200 - UW Robotics - Robo-Magellan

Fall 2005 - $40,000

Spring 2005 - $46,000

  • USD$750 - Actuarial Science Club - Study guides for actuarial exams
  • $510 - Actuarial Science Club - Newsletter
  • $200 - Actuarial Science Club - Alumni and undergrad mentorship program
  • $2,240 - CS (Prof. Andrew Malton) - develop worked examples for CS 246 coursenotes
  • $1,600 - CS (Prof. J.P. Pretti) - CS program attrition survey
  • $8,000 - CS (Prof. Eugene Zima) - visualization applets for CS 341
  • $2,200 - Support students attending CUMC conference
  • $19,142.50 - CSCF - New front-end servers for CS undergrad environment
  • $1,750 - Engineers without Borders - Internship, conference, and event support
  • $2,000 - MathSoc - first-year mentorship program
  • $4,890 - Stats - clickers for STAT 230
  • $1,880 - UW Robotics Team - parts for Robo-Magellan project
  • $250 - UW Robotics Team - recruitment of math students
  • $400 - Waterloo Space Society - parts for rocket

Winter 2005 - $33,550

Fall 2004 - $32,750

  • $1,423 - ACM Club - Textbook library and PC
  • USD$654 - Actuarial Science Club - Funding of reference texts to be placed in the DC library
  • $5,250 - Actuarial Science Club - Funding of students to attend the 2005 ASNA conference
  • $109.25 - CSC - Purchase of a DVD burner
  • $800 - CSC - Purchase of a digital video camera
  • $5,525 - Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF) - Prchase of new chairs for MC3008
  • $1,555.20 - Entity Robotics Group - Supplies
  • $1,500 - Mathematics Society - Purchase of a textbook library for core courses to be made available in the MathSoc office (MC3038)
  • $6,000 - Midnight Sun - 10% of Solar Array for Midnight Sun VIII
  • $2,000 - Midnight Sun - Funding for a teaching student to develop curricula for presentations to schools
  • $1,536.40 - PMAMC&OC - Purchase of a new computer
  • $1,878.25 - Teaching Students' Association - Purchase of a new computer, printer, and software
  • $4,000 - Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group - Development of new and existing projects
  • $250 - Waterloo Aerial Robotic s Group - Advertising to Math students

Spring 2004 - $16,729.98

  • $6,000 - Harry Panjer - Creation of Acts 232 Course Notes
  • $3,000 - Actuarial Science Club - Funding students to attend the 2005 ASNA confrence
  • $372 - Actuarial Science Club - Purchase of course 5 and 6 SOA exam material
  • $582.98 - CSC - Purchase of books for club library
  • $175 - CSC - Purchase of Uniterruptible Power Supply
  • $2,000 - Midnight Sun - Purchase of Supplies
  • $250 - Midnight Sun - Funds to aid recruitment of Math Students
  • $350 - Double Degree Club - Funding for bus trip to Toronto
  • $4,000 - WARG - Travel costs to competition in Georigia

Winter 2004 - $39,031.30

  • $12,231.30 - CS 456/656 - Creation of a networking lab
  • $6,000 - CS 350 - Further development of Visual OS/II applets
  • $3,500 - PMath 464 - Course notes
  • $1,500 - Math Orientation - Creation of customized Linux CD for frosh kits
  • $5,250 - Funding for students to attend the 2004 CUMC
  • $750 - Funding for an ISG staff member to attend the ACM SIGCSE Conference
  • $2,400 - MathSoc - Improvements to the Online Exambank
  • $6,000 - Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group - Development of new and existing systems.
  • $900 - ActSci Club - Mentoring Program events
  • $500 - CSC - New power supply and hard disks

Fall 2003 - $18,250

Spring 2003 - $11,432.66

Winter 2003 - $11,668.70

  • $568.70 - PMAMC&OC - trips to Fields Institute for undergraduate-oriented lectures
  • $800 - ActSci Club - study manuals for actuary exams for courses 2, 3, and 4
  • $7,500 - Midnight Sun - 10% of the cost of the solar cell array for Midnight Sun VII
  • $1,200 - SE 101 - hire of two URAs for development of open-source lego robot simulator
  • $1,600 - Robocup (Prof. Lopez-Ortiz) - hire of two URAs and associated expenses for early research work for the possibility of entering Robocup 2004

Fall 2002 - $24,055.38

  • $10,166 - SE 112
  • $5,000 - Midnight Sun
  • $5,712 - AM 373
  • $200 - CSC - Books
  • $777.38 - CSC - Furniture and Computer Equipment
  • $1,200 - Guest lecturer for Prof. Eugene Zima's CS 450 class
  • $1,000 - ActSci Club

Spring 2002 - $13,786

  • $5,200 - Midnight Sun - sensors
  • $3,280 - SEDS - Student Managed Research Telescope Array
  • $5,306 - CS - software engineering course development

Winter 2002 - $21,702.56

  • $1,203.57 - PMAMC&OC - purchase of new books
  • $800 - MFCF - RAM for www.student.math server
  • $6,695.99 - MFCF - projector for AM
  • $2,700 - AM - laptop for demonstrations
  • $700 - PM - purchase of a demonstration device
  • $9,603 - CS - software engineering course development

Fall 2001 - $11,000

  • $702 - PM - heavy-duty scanner
  • $1,380 - C&O - Teaching assistant for C&O 439/639
  • $100 - TSA - professional development day
  • $2,248.47 - SE 101 - robots for course project
  • $2,306.88 - CS - equipment for graphics lab
  • $505 US - ActSci Club - professional development materials
  • $543 - ActSci Club - professional development materials
  • $262.50 US - AM - software for AM 373
  • $2,759.12 - AM - TA for AM 373 for Winter 2002

Spring 2001 - $24,240.02

  • $8,236.50 - CS - co-op student for development of Nortel lab
  • $2,700 - CS - TA for CS 370
  • $1,500 - C&O - equipment for development of graph theory software
  • $5,550 - CS - creation of handbook for CS 354 TAs
  • $625.29 - Math Business - purchase of graphing calculators
  • $5,628.23 - Stats and ActSci - couse web page design

Spring 1999 - $3,932.36

  • $1,800 - MathSoc - purchase of bulletin boards
  • $232.20 - TSA - purchase of educational software
  • $584.92 - PMAMC&OC - purchase of new books for the club's library
  • $120 - PMAMC&OC - purchase of various mathematical models
  • $195.24 - Linux@UW Project - purchase of a hard drive
  • $1,000 - CSC - purchase of a computer

Winter 1999 - $8,203.40

  • $64.40 - Linux@UW Project - initial purchases for the CDROM library
  • $4,439 - UW Library - purchase of Computer Science Abstract Database
  • $350 - Women In Math - help cover the cost of developing a website
  • $350 -  PMAMC&OC - purchase of new books for the club's library
  • $3,000 - Midnight Sun Solar Car - coating of Solar Cells for the new car

Fall 1998 - $9,974

  • $950 - ActSci Club - partial funding for the ASNA conference
  • $6,153 - Statistics & Acturaial Science Department - 3 new iMacs for the Statistics Lab
  • $471 - UW Business Club - purchase of new books for the club's library
  • $100 - PMAMC&OC - funding for 3 talks
  • $2,300 - Midnight Sun Solar Car - Purchase of Solar Cells for the new car

Spring 1998 - $18,747

  • $250 - ActSci Club - Funding for Actex Manuals and The WAVE
  • $1,000 - UW Debate Society - Partial funding for math students tournament and tournament transportation fees
  • $460 - PMAMC&OC - Full funding for student math conference at UW
  • ~$2,047 - TSA - Full Funding for computer to learn educational software
  • ~$15,000 - MFCF - Full funding for 2 Sun Sprac10s, String Server, and WWW/CGI for the math undergrad environment

Winter 1998 - $21,133.07

  • $3,608 - Statistics - Funding for a Grad Student to create manual for all the Stats packages
  • $11,387.07 - MFCF - Full Funding for two Windows NT XTerm Servers
  • $3,680 - Applied Math - Full Funding for Graphics Demonstration equipment, ThinkPad
  • $2,458 - Department of Computer Science: Full funding for Windows NT server for CS 130/4 course content server

Fall 1997 - $21,851.22

  • $10,000 - Faculty of Mathematics for English 109M
  • $4,791.72 - Server for MathSoc PC Lab
  • $2,587.50 - Hub for MathSoc PC Lab and undergraduate clubs
  • $2,150.50 - PC to be shared between the Business and ActSci Clubs
  • $1,150 - Dr. G. Tenti, Dept. of Applied Math
  • $871.50 - ActSci Club: partial funding for the ASNA conference
  • $300 -  PMAMC&OCClub: funding for the Pure Math conference

Spring 1997 - $14,346.60

  • $4,294.10 - Accounting Students Assoc. for a PC
  • $4,000 - Peter Buhr, Dept. of Computer Science
  • $6,052.50 - Geir Dullerud, Kirsten Morris - Dept. of Applied Math

Winter 1997 - $17,546.40

  • $13,046.40 - MFCF: two undergrad servers
  • $4,000 - MGC: operating fund
  • $500 - MGC: grad school library improvement

Fall 1996 - $12,501

  • $4,167 - MFCF: partial funding for an undergrad server
  • $4,167 - C&O dept.: hire grad students to construct Algebra lab in Matlab
  • $4,167 - Wei-Pai Tang: partial funding for LCD projector

Spring 1996 - $300

  • $300 - TSA: "classroom management workshop"

Winter 1996 - $9,855.97

  • $5,400 - MFCF: improving undergrad environment
  • $2,000 - Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
  • $860 - ActSci Club: purchase of ACTEX manuals
  • $652.11 - MathSoc: improving exam bank
  • $551.36 - MGC: Start graduate library
  • $392.50 - ActSci Club - partial payment of ASNA/ANEA dues

Fall 1995 - $2,000

  • $2,000 - ActSci Club: partial funding for ASNA/ANEA conference

Spring 1995

  • None

Winter 1995 - $25

  • $25 - Stan Lipshitz: Planimeter

Fall 1994

  • None