Our Committees

APD initiates and organizes activities that will enhance academic development while working to help prepare students for their professional lives throughout their college experience. If you have an idea for an initiative you think will help other students achieve their career goals, please reach out!

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Working with the Career Center
• Wahoo Welcome Peer Advising
• Internship Panels
• Non-Traditional Career Panels
• Across the SEAS Major Mixers

Work with other committees to update and maintain ESC website, weekly newsletter, and social media accounts. Design and create new merch for board members and SEAS.

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Website
• Newsletter
• Social Media
• Merchandise

We seek to foster a community that improves and maintains the safety, well-being, and engagement of all engineering students. We plan to host events to better engage underrepresented students on Grounds/in SEAS.

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Webassign/Textbooks Reimbursement
• Alumni/Student Work Spotlight
• Alumni Panel
• BIPOC Bonfire
• Hoos First Look Sponsorship

The First Year Committee of the Engineering Student Council consists of 30+ students dedicated to providing all E-School first years with a supportive, inclusive, and collaborative environment in which to learn and succeed. We are looking forward to making our first year the best it can be for all of the first year engineering students that we represent.

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Major Mixers
• Professional Advancement Workshops
• Days of Service
• STEM Community Outreach

The Fourth Year Board is designed to create an unforgettable experience for our engineering students during their last year. The board meets biweekly to discuss, plan, and execute initiatives and events for our fourth year class. From fourth year only perks, such as free local fitness classes and private study spaces with coffee tabs, to celebratory events, like Oktoberfest and Garden Party, the board ensures your fourth year will be one to remember together.

The Health and Wellness committee is responsible for creating an environment where students prioritize physical and mental health. The events organized integrate mindfulness, physical wellbeing, and a sense of community among peers.

Our committee serves to create lasting relationships within the UVA E-school and the greater Charlottesville community via volunteer efforts, education outreach programs, donation drives, and other service initiatives.

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Pi Miler
• Elementary and middle school outreach programs
• 1st and 2nd year peer mentorship
• KidVention

Hosts events where all engineering students across all years and majors can come together to create a stronger sense of community and have fun

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Welcome Back Bash
• Rotunda Dinners
• Free Pie on Pi Day
• Do-nut Stress
• f(date)

Oversees all administrative programs for ESC, striving to bolster community and inclusion within SEAS. Hold events that target specific years in SEAS.

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Student Taught Class
• Take your professor to lunch
• Bagels on The E-way

Raise awareness of international opportunities, increase participation in study abroad programs, and strengthen the global culture in SEAS.

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Study Abroad Scholarship
• Study Abroad Workshops
• Study Abroad Coffee Chats
• Study Abroad Reunion Dinners
• Working with SEAS study abroad office

Conduct Zero-Waste training for fellow organizations, propose sustainable infrastructure/ideas across the E-School, promote sustainability education, and integrate sustainable practices into all of the ESC committees.

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Making all ESC events zero-waste
• Earth Week
• “Consulting” for other E-School CIOs/organizations
• Eco-friendly programs

The transfer committee advocates for transfer students in the engineering school by organizing and hosting events centered around introducing transfer students to resources and tools to assign in their academic journeys, creating a community of shared experience, and actively working towards making the transition to life as a UVA engineering student smooth, enjoyable, and well supported.

Highlighted Events and Initiatives

• Working with the dean for academic success
• Assisting engineering TSPAs
• Presentations and Panels about academic and social life at UVA
• Wahoo Welcome
• Scavenger Hunt
• Navigating the Seas Transfer Series
• Mixers and Coffee chats for transfer students

E-guides are the tour guides for UVA Engineering. Our job is to get potential students and their families interested in and excited about both engineering and UVA. We offer daily in-person tours (not including Sundays), Q&As in the summer, and have a virtual tour as well. We also help out with Days on the Lawn each spring semester. Each tour is led by two guides, and as an e-guide, you are responsible for giving a tour about every two weeks. Info sessions and tryouts are held at the beginning of each semester, and while first years cannot try out their first semester, we would love to have you try out in your spring semester if you are interested!