The Graduates and Students Network (GSNet) is made up of volunteer graduate and student members of ICE.
Each UK region has a Graduate and Student Committee which provides a representative to GSNet. GSNet members are also involved in other ICE committees and panels.
How to get involved
There are two main ways to get involved in the GSNet Committee, through your regional Graduate and Student Committee or as a GSNet rep on an ICE panel or committee. Once you've attended two GSNet meetings you are eligble to stand for election to the GSNet Executive.
Benefits of getting involved
Being on the committee brings several benefits:
- Networking, making contacts, learning about other companies & industries and meeting senior civil engineers;
- Developing professional skills – organising, chairing, negotiating, presentation and meeting skills, time management and public speaking;
- Gaining status – progressing your professional membership;
- Getting involved in social activities – having fun;
- Influencing the profession – influencing your future;
- Receiving training and experience which might not be available within your company; and
- Making a difference to other graduates, students and to the way the ICE works.
Aims of GSNet
GSNet aim to:
- Promote and encourage the acquisition of knowledge by graduate and student members in all matters appertaining to the profession of civil engineering;
- Present the views of the body of graduate and student members to the Institution, the Council and the ICE expert panels and boards and to consider such matters affecting the Institution as may be referred to it;
- Promote the interchange of ideas and information between Regions and Graduate and Student Committees;
- Provide a best practice guide for the regions;
- Nominate graduate and student members to appropriate Standing Committees and Boards of the Institution. The members would have to submit their CV and reasons for wanting to stand on the board to the GSNet Executive Committee.
Who are we?
The GSNet comprises the following representatives:
- ICE Secretariat - appointed by ICE
- Two officers - Chairman and Honorary Secretary - elected annually by the committee
- Vice-Chairs - elected annually by the committee
- Representatives from each Region - elected by the regions annually
- Delegates nominated to the ICE committees and boards
- Liasion Members of Council
- Graduate Members of Council
- The officers, vice chair and 3 elected members of the GSNet form an executive, totalling six members, that acts as an executive to the full committee. The GSNet Terms of Reference (TOR) allow the GSNet Chairman to co-opt extra GSNet members onto the steering committee as required.