EDCOM

EDCOM, or the Waterloo Engineering Education Committee, is a group of orientation leaders commonly associated as the image of Engineering Orientation.

History
It was during an unknown Orientation Week during the 1980’s that the Education Committee was founded, and that the engineering hardhats became a major symbol. The oldest record of the Education Committee is an Orientation Week video from 1988, and hardhats could be over a decade older than that.

"FACTS"
There are a number of falsehoods perpetuated as "facts" associated with EDCOM. Some popular ones include:


 * Individuals are hand-picked by the Dean of Engineering to become EDCOM
 * EDCOM are chosen from the top 5% of each discipline
 * EDCOM are the First Year TAs
 * EDCOM must be able to bench-press 300 lbs
 * EDCOM all have the same legal name (“EDCOM”)
 * Individuals on EDCOM do not understanding the concept of “joy”
 * EDCOM genuinely believes that the the math community has accepted that the number “EDCOM” is the only number larger than infinity
 * An EDCOM handshake would be so destructive to the human wrist that they have been barred by school administration from administering it.

EDCOM are chosen in a process similar to any other volunteer position for Orientation Week (Usually with an extra interview over other leaders).