Chair of Nanotech Institute advisory board named

Arun Majumdar will chair the advisory board of the newly formed ASME Nanotechnology Institute.

Majumdar is professor and vice chair for instruction in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

For the last 12 months, he has also served as a member of the ASME Nanotechnology Steering Committee.

Arun Majumdar

The advisory board will replace the steering committee, continuing to suggest conferences and publications in the nanotechnology field, advising ASME Professional Development on developing short courses and tutorials, offering guidance in developing a robust Web site, and reviewing Public Affairs activities in the area.

A key activity will be to guide planning for an ASME conference next summer in the San Francisco Bay area on nanoscale mechanics and dynamics.

Majumdar was a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award, the ASME Melville Medal and the ASME Best Paper Award from the Heat Transfer Division, and the 2001 ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award.

He is currently an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, and is co-editor-in-chief of Microscale Thermophysical Engineering.

In addition, he serves as a member of the Council on Energy Engineering Research for the Department of Energy.

Majumdar will chair a special session on nano thermal fluidics on the morning of Nov. 13, at the 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in New York. He is the author of several Congress papers on nanotechnology and heat transfer as well.

Operating as a virtual, Web-based unit, the ASME Nanotechnology Institute offers a clearinghouse for international forums in the design, synthesis, manipulation and control of nanoscale systems — technologies at the level of atoms and molecules.

Further information about the Nanotechnology Institute is available from Charles Beardsley, ASME's staff director for advanced technology programs, who can be contacted at beardsleyc@asme.org.

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