First Day

• Put professional action shot picture on appropedia userpage
• Pick project and time scope
• Give Dr. Pearce emergency phone
• Get, UWO email, Add to group email list
• Add Dr. Pearce to LinkedIn and join group https://www.linkedin.com/company/uwofast/
• Fill out form for graduation and T shirt https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=TaaTrQ2tzU6y_eU84VllvrfIEw2fq8NKiyTUN-bcYiNUQU4zUDdEQ1VDTEk3TFBHV1A4WFhRQ1oxOC4u
• Fill out NSERC consent form https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/OnlineServices-ServicesEnLigne/pdf/F100D_e.pdf and email it to Dr. Pearce
• Please complete (if you have not already) the required safety training https://uwo.ca/hr/learning/required/index.html
  • Worker Health and Safety Awareness
  • WHMIS (note this one expires)
  • Western Safe Campus Community
  • Building Inclusivity through Anti-Racism (Employee Version)
  • Supporting Disclosures of Gender-Based & Sexual Violence at Western
  • AODA
  • Lab Safety
  • Cyber Safety Awareness
  • Academic Integrity
  • When you are done save all your certificates -- since transitioning training from OWL Sakai to Brightspace on March 23rd and says to use the training summary as proof of completion, so please email that to me. Each required training certification is listed in the Assignments tab, and you are required to upload your pdf certificate of completion for each training. When you are done email me and include your student number in the email. I can then use these to get you swipe access (Courtney/Riham Mohamed/Lynda Ding) to the lab and if we are lucky the building.
• If work study please complete timesheets through Kuali, https://uwo.kualibuildca.com/app/builder/#/app/5f05cdabd23e54001c341131/run
  • Every day put in what you did in a short bullet and the hours worked
  • Make sure to put in a total for the week
  • Make sure to put total hours minus how many you worked that week to keep a running total on the Saturday description block.
  • You can not go over your allotment.
  • Finally, please make sure that when you submit hours for work study you never work during a statutory holiday.
• To get swipe access send Riham:
  • Name:
  • Student ID:
  • Status/Relationship with Western: Grad (PhD/MESc), UG, Staff, Post Doc, VGS, etc.
  • Department: ECE, MME, CBE, BME, etc.
  • Access End Date: Contract end date, PhD=12 terms, MESc=6 terms, All others Term by Term
• Obtain office space
• Tour Lab
• Cover basic safety - lab goggles, shoes, existing chemicals, and MSDS files - major risks and safety equipment
• Set Weekly Meeting Time
• Discuss IP
  • Discuss open access policy of group
• Overview of use of Appropedia as a research tool
  • FAST users
  • FAST literature reviews
  • FAST methods
  • FAST paper writing
  • completed projects and publications
• Tshirt

Last Day

• FAST last day

Housing

Check https://offcampus.uwo.ca/ regularly. For on-campus housing options, please contact housing@uwo.ca and visit https://residence.uwo.ca/resources/international_exchange_student_guide/index.html for more information.

Websites to look for housing and roommates. They are all active and theres i usually always something available:

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/900820483299228
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/1572498759686621
• https://offcampus.uwo.ca/listings/
• Rental.Ca
• Realtor.Ca
• Kijiji.Ca

Some points that would help you a lot in finding a home:

• Pay attention to property information, some of them may include the utilities, and some may not. If not, you will pay for them extra.
• Try to find a room near bus stops going directly to the university. This is especially important in Winter. Routes 10,27,2,6,31,33 are good choices.
• Finding a room in person is so much easier, so you can find a sublet for your first month and then look for room.
• Find a permanent room before September, as after September it would be very challenging with the entire university being back in full swing.