Mechanical Engineering Guild

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Mechanical Engineering Guild

• Whats that ?!

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The Guild

• Founded in 1974
• Nowadays has about 600 members
• Every year over 80 new students begin their
  studies at the department of mechanical
  engineering in LUT and most of them become
  members of KRK
• KRK represents its members in university's
  student union and administration and arranges all
  kinds of activities, such as visits to different
  companies, sauna evenings every month and a huge
  amount of bigger and smaller parties, most of
  which have no reason whatsoever. The guild also
  offers consulting in virtually anything.

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The Guilds Duties

• The Mechanical Engineering Guilds duties and
  role in university
• To unite the students in LUT
• To raise and maintain interest in professional
  and common topics in society.
• To work in cooperation with student union to
  improve students social and society status. And
  to improve the level of technical education in
  LUT and other technical universities in Finland.

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And how we do it ?

• The guild arranges..
• meetings, parties and study trips to its members.
  
• informative meetings concerning studies,
  technical university, education politics and
  current issues
• information services publishing own newsletter
  and distributing literature to its members
• Also the guild..
• familiarizes the new students with university and
  its atmosphere and help to cope with problems in
  early stage of their studies
• is interconnected with the mechanical engineering
  organizations and guilds old members.
• arranges different kind of events to its members
• and so on...

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The Guild Room

• How to get there
• between the main restaurant and library (2nd
  floor, next to the library stairs)
• What you can do there?
• read professional publications (most of them are
  in finnish only)
• do exercises with your friends
• relax after hard day of studying
• Also available
• tea and coffee maker,
• radio/CD-player
• computer with access to the internet

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Anniversaries

• The guild celebrates its anniversaries almost
  every year with good wines, food and, of course,
  in good company

• Traditionally we celebrate the anniversaries
  together with 3 other guilds.

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UNIFORMS

• Our uniform (and trademark) in the numerous
  parties and events that take place along the year
  is an orange overall.
• Don't ask why, we don't know either. It's part of
  the student tradition in Finland. I suppose it
  provides some kind of feeling of unity and it
  usually protects the clothes underneath.
• Students wear also different kind of badges on
  their overalls. You can buy guilds own badges
  from our catering specialists and also from the
  universitys bookstore.

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Membership Fee

• If you want to join the guild, youll have to pay
  the membership fee of Mechanical Engineering
  Guild (KRK ry). You pay it only once in your
  lifetime to Nordea bank account (205418-44280,
  reference code 1847) and its only 10 .
• What advantages do You get from that
• You get our uniform (and trademark), an orange
  overall for free
• You can join the study trips more cheaper.
• And of course, after joining us, you can say
  proudly that you are one of
• us!

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AND FINALLY..

• Current issues http//www.koneenrakennuskilta.fi
  
• Questions / feedback krk_at_lut.fi
• After all, koneteekkari is always a
  gentleman (-woman)!