SE Soc (Software Engineering Society) Constitution

Preamble

This document contains the Constitution of the University of Waterloo’s Software Engineering Society. The membership is to be solely comprised of Undergraduate Software Engineering students at the University of Waterloo. This document shall form binding terms of reference and shall supersede all previous operating policies and/or any previous constitutions.

This Constitution has been very widely based off the Constitution for a fellow engineering society, the Civil, Environmental, and Geological Engineering Society. This constitution will be ratified only in the case in which a referendum to create the Software Engineering Society passes with at least 51% of the vote.

1.0 Names and Definitions

The following document is the constitution of the Software Engineering Society of the University of Waterloo. This document forms the binding terms of reference for all the Society’s operations, activities, and policies.

1.1 Definitions

The organization shall be known as the Software Engineering Society, SE Soc, or the Society.
Since the engineering students at the University of Waterloo alternate between work terms and academic terms every four months, there shall exist an A-Society and B-Society to ensure that the society functions year-round; Therefore, SE Soc is run alternately by two teams of students on A-Society and B-Society. Members from the opposite Society may still attend events from the other society.
- First year Software class will have one term in which they elect class representatives to the society, but they cannot run for executive positions in that term; they can run for executive positions starting the winter of their first year once they are on-stream with their society.
A-Society Academic Terms shall occur during the fall term during even numbered years, the winter term during even numbered years, or the spring term during odd numbered years.
B-Society Academic Terms shall occur during the fall term during odd numbered years, the winter term during odd numbered years, or the spring term during even numbered years.

2.0 Mission statement

SE Soc has a focus on improving the inter- and intra-cohort relationships, so every SE student can get the most out of their university experience by having many like-minded individuals to work, learn, and bond with.

3.0 Objective

The society will serve as the official undergraduate organization of the program, and will represent the interests of its members in interactions with the program administration, as well as various student organizations of other programs, faculties and Universities.

SE Soc will formalize the events and functions that should be run every term. Furthermore, having elected officials allows members to hold people accountable for those events and functions.

4.0 Organization of society

4.1 General membership

Membership in the Society will be restricted to those full time undergraduate students in the Software Engineering program at the University of Waterloo. Members of the on-term society shall be entitled to voting rights in elections. All members shall have voting rights at All Class General Meetings (ACGM), and all on-term members shall be eligible to run for office (See Article 6 ‘Elections’ and Article 5 ‘Meetings’).