Mechanical Engineering Graduate Students Association (Megsa)

Hello everyone,
To celebrate the International Workers' Day, the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association (MEGSA) will be conducting an Indoor Cricket Tournament for the U of A students on May 2nd, 2018, (from 2 pm to 6 pm) in the University Pavilion.
Tournament Format: The tournament will be conducted in a pool based round-robin. Six teams will participate and will be divided into two pools. Each team will play the two teams of their respective pools in the leagu...e stage. The topper of each pool will progress to the final. The league matches will be conducted on a super 6 format (six teams, six players, six overs) and will follow standard cricket rules. The final match will be 8 overs per innings.Detailed rules and schedule will be sent by April 20.
Registration: The registration fee for a team is $75. The deadline to register your team is on or before April 20. Registration fees should be paid through interac transfer to the event organizer. The contact details of the event organizer can be found below.
Important Note: Registration is limited to 6 teams (FCFS).
Please fill the google form using the link below to confirm your participation. All the team members must fill this form.
https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSeibMk ZzYLnOQk6i…/viewform…
Event Organizer: Anish Kumar, President, MEGSA Contact No: 780-908-5795 Email: ak1@ualberta.ca
Please contact MEGSA or the Event Organizer if you have any questions.
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Hello Grads,
We hope you all enjoyed the awesome events, movie nights, seminars, workshops, coffee breaks, New Year potluck, BBQ organized by us during 2016-2017 academic year. As a gentle reminder, we would like to invite you to become a part of next MEGSA Executive Committee (Oct. 2017 - Oct. 2018), so that we can organize even more exciting events.
If you are interested, please indicate your interest and nominate yourself by sending us an email by September 24, 2017 (11:5...9 PM). The election will be online and results to be announced by September 30, 2017.
You can nominate yourself for the following positions, as many as you are eligible for:
1. President 2. VP Academic - Mechanical Engineering (MECE) 3. VP Academic - Engineering Management (ENGM) 4. VP External 5. VP Events (3 Positions) 6. VP Finance / Treasurer 7. VP Communications 8. VP Administration 9. VP Volunteers 10. Member at large (4 Positions)
It is advisable to read the constitution (PFA) before filing the nomination.
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Megsa is inviting all of its members to come hang out, at RATT, and meet the new execs as well as new students. If you're a new student, this is a great opportunity to meet people. If you're an old student, this is a great excuse to hang out with old friends and make new.
Come hang out and start off the fall break right!
This is an open event, so anyone can come! Invite your friends!
... FYI this event is 18+. Please bring your IDs.
See you all there!
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Hey guys.. Let's Kick off the Fall Break together on November 4th!!

MEGSA Election 2016 (Friday, September 30th , from 4:00 - 5:20 p.m. in MEC 2-3) Mechanical Engineering Graduate Students’ Association is a departmental student group which exists under student clubs section of the Students' Union Constitution and will also be recognized by Graduate Students Association. Our regular events include coffee break and graduate talk series. We held a variety of other activities, such as MATLAB workshop, LabVIEW workshop, COMSOL workshop, alumni mix...er, paintball event, COMSOL workshop, ZCL field trip, movie night and so on.
To become an executive member, nominate yourself by visiting our website https://www.ualberta.ca/~megsa/ or writing us at megsa@ualberta.ca or through https://goo.gl/forms/4oZzge2n2zk9QQpv2, including your brief CV, Photo, and 3-minutue speech about your plans.
Nomination deadline: Monday, September 26th 6 p.m.
Election: Friday, September 30th, from 4:00 - 5:20 p.m. in MEC 2-3
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PC - Nithish

Dear Valued Alumni,

The University of Alberta Mechanical Engineering faculty and the Gradute Student association would like to invite you to a night of networking in a relaxed atmosphere. Food and drinks will be provided and we sincerely hope that you are able to attend. This event is being organized by the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Students Association, the Chemical Engineering Graduate Students Association, and the Energy Club with the support of the Faculty of Me...chanical Engineering. Current students and past alumni will be attending, and the dress code will be business casual.

May 27th
ETLC Solarium
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Please RSVP by clicking the link below and registering by May 20th at noon
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mechanical-en gineering-alumni-m…
If you have any questions, please contact Kurtis at broda1@ualberta.ca


Directions


Please see the map below for informaiton as to the location of the event. The closest parking is in windsor car park. After parking in windsor car park the ETLC building is located south east of the car park. Please see http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/. After entering the building, go to the second floor proceed to the southern end of the building where the solarium is located.
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Please use the below link to register for the staff appreciation day. http://goo.gl/forms/ZDq7ehXM4W

Dear MEGSA members,
We are delighted to inform you about the upcoming Movie Night which is The PHD Movie 2 which is going to be screened on Jan. 22nd (Friday) at 5:00 pm in MEC E 2-3. This movie which is a comic movie about graduate life, has been released very recently. Since this is Friday evening, therefore, there wouldn't rush to go home as we guess!! You can watch the trailer of the movie by following this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2y_a7hL 5M
... And of course this is just not the movie show, we will get a chance to meet with our graduate colleagues to chat and pass a wonderful evening together. There will be Pizza & pops, popcorns, etc. as refreshments to make our movie night more enjoyable. Don’t miss it!! This event is for you and we hope your presence will make the event successful, and it will also inspire us to show your favorite movies in the following months.
Thanks in advance and looking forward to see you during the movie night.
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Title - Molecular Simulation of DNA Nucleotide-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids
Abstract DNA-carbon nanotube (CNT) nanohybrids have attracted much attention in recent years due to their many potential applications, for instance in cancer detection, purification and separation of CNTs, and nanoelectronics.
... In this talk, the interaction of DNA building blocks (nucleobases and nucleotides) with CNTs will be explored using atomistic classical and quantum mechanical simulations. Depending on the size and complexity of the problem, a pure quantum mechanics (QM), a mixed quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM:MM) approach, or a classical molecular dynamics (MD) is employed. Our results indicate that properties of DNA nucleotide-CNT hybrids (e.g., binding energy, electrostatic potential, and charge transfer) strongly depend on the type of nucleotide and CNT. This series of simulations, at different scales, not only allow us to study the properties of the hybrids, but also provide useful information on how future simulations can be improved to enhance accuracy of results.
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Please check the below link to get connected to the coffee break , Oct 20 , 2015.
https://www.facebook.com/events/428211030 713652/

Summer BBQ 2015. (More pics to come in our website: https://www.ualberta.ca/~megsa/).

Alumni Mixer organized by MEGSA & CMEGSA

A group photo from today's event!