Welcome

Welcome to the Carleton Mechanical and Aerospace Society's (CMAS) website. CMAS is the stream society for the Mechanical and Aerospace Department and is completely run by students for students. As such CMAS' goal is to serve all Carleton Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering students by bringing students, faculty, and industry professionals together, and by providing many valuable and fun services to students to improve student life.

CMAS offers an extensive list of services including use of the CMAS office, funding for students to travel to conferences and the sale of fun t-shirts and course manuals. The CMAS office is completely furnished with couches, a fridge and microwave, an engineering library, and computers printers. Sitting on the third floor of the third block, near Leo's lounge the CMAS office strives to be open as much as possible for you to use at your leisure. Feel free to drop by anytime and say hi!

CMAS also holds many events throughout the year. We host everything from monthly CASI Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute) speakers, to movie nights, to big competitions. Regular competitions include our popular catapult competition and a paper airplane competition. CASI talks are a great opportunity for networking with major industry professionals. Probably the best received event last year was a special tour of the Vintage Wings of Canada hangar in Gatineau that holds a large number of remarkable aircraft in pristine condition. We also help fund students to go to several large conferences every year. Some include the annual Student Aerospace Forum, and the Student Summit on Aerospace, both very well received by students at Carleton.

On the more academic side of things CMAS offers course manuals for numerous Mech and Aero courses as well as study space and cheap printing. We also organize a job placement program called CaIRP () which is a package of student résumés that gets sent out to aerospace companies across the country every spring. Two new programs have recently been started by CMAS to try and become more involved educationally. The first of these is the TA award program organized in conjunction with the MAE department office which allows the department's greatest TAs be recognized for their contribution and hard work. The second program is SMaRT, standing for . SMaRT is a program designed to help students transition to university life and help them find answers to questions about classes, profs, res, etc.

We encourage you to come out and participate in CMAS activities, get involved, and get to know other students, faculty, and prominent industry professionals. Once again, you can drop by the office at ME 3397 or contact us at anytime to see what's going on.

Cheers and good luck in all your classes!
Jeff Teutsch
CMAS President
2009-2010