TRANSACTIONSOF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FORMECHANICAL ENGINEERING SPECIAL ISSUE ON MECHANISMS, MACHINES AND MECHATRONICS GUEST EDITORIAL

The Canadian Committee for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (CCToMM) was formally recognized as a national committee member of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM) at the Third World Congress on Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, held in Dubrovnik in 1971. CCToMM, as a national committee member of IFToMM, shares the objectives of the latter, namely, the promotion of research and development in the field of Machines and Mechanisms by theoretical and experimental methods, along with their practical applications. Every two years since its inception in 1972, CSME sponsors a national forum, in even numbered years, to promote the communication and transfer of technology between mechanical engineering experts, now known as the CSME Congress. At these congresses, which are hosted by different universities across Canada, CCToMM has negotiated a symposium to be held as a parallel session. CCToMM began organizing its own biennial M3 (Mechanisms, Machines, and Mechatron...