National Organization for Business and Engineering McGill Chapter
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| Origin: | The Garden of Forking Paths, 1944 | ||||||||||
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| Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel | |||||||||||
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National Organization for Business and Engineering (NOBE) engages engineering students to diversify and broaden their engineering curriculum. Through exclusive skills-building workshops and networking events, NOBE provides engineering students with the skills, confidence, and network to excel in careers outside the typical engineering scope, such as consulting (management, tech, or engineering), banking, marketing, and more!
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Mandate
At NOBE, we believe that engineering students are much more capable of JUST engineering. With the technical, analytical, and critical mind that engineers develop through their undergraduate career, they have the potential to excel in various industries outside of engineering. NOBE has previously promoted fields like management consulting, investment banking, marketing, or entrepreneurship, but we are constantly reaching out to new industries to expand our profile.
NOBE allows you to:
- Increase your visibility to previously unexplored companies and careers
- Enable you to meet recruiters for job openings in which you may be interested
- Broaden your mindset to successfully accomplish a wide variety of problems.
History
Founded in 2006, a student in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Society for Business and Management in Engineering proposed to take their organization to the national level by contacting three other universities with similar organizations to join together and rebrand their groups as the National Organization for Business and Engineering (NOBE). Since then, universities from all across the United States have joined (e.g. University of Southern California, Northwestern University, Drexel, Georgia Tech, and Penn State).
NOBE McGill is the Canadian chapter founded from McGill’s own Engineers in Business organization, which joined the quickly-growing NOBE network in 2010. Since then, NOBE McGill has expanded quickly to become the center of attention for any engineer interested in taking their career to the next level. Between 2013 and 2016, NOBE increased its McGill campus presence by over 300% to actively over 500 students in its network. NOBE McGill is now the premier chapter with a strong position to expand across Canada through the University of Toronto all the way to the University of British Columbia.
Current& Past Executive Teams
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| Position: | Name: |
|---|---|
| Co-President | Vincent Wu |
| Co-President | Richard Wu |
| VP Internal | Pryia Raina |
| VP-Outreach | Christian Gilroy |
| VP Events | Marilena Angehelopou |
| VP Finance | Liam Ashworth |
| VP Communications | Abby Li |
| VP Media | Saad Waseem |
| CP Corporate Relations | Sebastian De los Santos |
| Project Manager | Jenny Pan |
| Project Manager | Parmoon Sarmadi |
| Project Manager | Pavel Stogornyuk |
| Project Manager | Rahil Manji |
</tab> <tab name="2014-2015" index="2">
| Position: | Name: |
|---|---|
| President | Vincent Wu |
| VP Internal | Priya Raina |
| VP Outreach | Justin Hayto |
| VP Logistics | Austin Fiero |
| VP Finance | Steve Cauri |
| VP Communications | Bryan Hou |
| VP External | Richard Wu |
| VP Industry Knowledge | Antoine Demers-Hebert |
| National Representative | Aissam Souidi |
| Finance Committee | Arjun Jeyapaalan |
| Consulting Committee | Brenda Liu |
| Mechanical Engineering Rep | Reza Tadayon |
| Civil Engineering Rep | Thomas Gomez-Ospina |
| ECSE Rep | Reda Berrada |
| Mining/Materials Engineering Rep | Melanie LaRoche-Boisvert |
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<tab name="2013-2014" index="3">
| Position: | Name: |
|---|---|
| President | Iva Deng |
| VP Logistics | Vincent Wu |
| VP Communications | Pedro Marzano |
| VP External | Denis Chen |
| VP Internal | Simon Liu |
| VP Finance | Oren Singer |
| National Representative | Antoine Bosselut |
| Media Relations | Amy Kim |
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<tab name="2012-2013">
| Position: | Name: |
|---|---|
| President | Antoine Bosselut |
| VP External | Wayne Tung Lam Uong |
| VP Internal | Denis Chen |
| VP Finance | Firas Krichi |
| VP Communications | Michael O'Sullivan |
| VP Consulting | Karine Assaf |
| VP Finance Industry | Radhika Chandra |
| National Representative | Curt Lederle |
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Section2
The story repeats the theme of Borges' 1939 essay "The Total Library" ("La biblioteca total"), which in turn acknowledges the earlier development of this theme by Kurd Lasswitz in his 1901 story "The Universal Library" ("Die Universalbibliothek"): There should be at least 5 members serving at the bar at a time; however less are needed in the first hour of Blues Pub on average.
- Pullquote
- Certain examples that Aristotle attributes to Democritus and Leucippus clearly prefigure it, but its belated inventor is Gustav Theodor Fechner, and its first exponent, Kurd Lasswitz. [...] In his book The Race with the Tortoise (Berlin, 1919), Dr Theodor Wolff suggests that it is a derivation from, or a parody of, Ramón Llull's thinking machine [...T]he elements of his game are the universal orthographic symbols, not the words of a language [...] Lasswitz arrives at twenty-five symbols (twenty-two letters, the space, the period, the comma), whose recombinations and repetitions encompass everything possible to express in all languages. The totality of such variations would form a Total Library of astronomical size. Lasswitz urges mankind to construct that inhuman library, which chance would organize and which would eliminate intelligence. (Wolff's The Race with the Tortoise expounds the execution and the dimensions of that impossible enterprise.)
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