As prospective Co-VP Academics, our aim is to make your time in the Mechatronics program more organized, enriching, and connected. We’ll scramble around so that you don’t have to.

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What We’ll Do for You as VP Academics:

• Organize and share resources so you can spend more time learning and doing

  • Create a drive with documents containing relevant simulators, reference sites, textbook names/ISBNs, and useful free software accessible to UofA MCTR Students

  • Develop and share internal and external study guides, previous exams and practice exams, as well as any additional requested resources

• Represent the MCTR student body to professors and teaching staff

  • Voice the honest, explicit feedback of students during regular meetings with teaching staff

  • Collaborate with professors to set strict deadlines and expectations for exam preparation material

• Foster a closer community around studying

  • Work with the busy schedules of MCTR students to create more study and review sessions that work for the program majority

• Help students create study groups, connect with tutoring resources, and look into having designated program study rooms with internal sign-up forms

What We’ll Do for You as Members of the MCTR Executive Team:

• Keep the Executive team transparent and approachable. We’re always happy to talk inperson, and we will have multiple mediums through which students can contact us

• Advertise opportunities to get involved in competitions, research, volunteering, engineering events, and all other ways to make the most of your time in this program

• Update students on meetings and decisions made by executives, and important deadlines such as election schedules

• Centralize tips and tricks to make the most of your time on campus: Best study spots for different tastes, good parking locations, storage tips, food recommendations, local stores and websites for cheap hardware, etc.

• Fight to get students Co-op placements: Sharing information from the Co-op office on employment numbers and what students should be doing, and finding resources for better job trackers, local companies, using AI effectively for searches and documents, dealing with various ATS, how to leverage club experience, how to cold email/ cold call, etc.

If any of this makes us better than “none of the above”, vote for us from Wednesday, April 8th at 9:00 AM to Thursday, April 9th at 6:00 PM!