ASME's newest computer journal debuts in March

Henry Baumgartner
ASME NEWS
ASME's newest Transactions journal, the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, or JCISE for short, is getting ready to publish its first issue in March.

Sponsored by the Computers and Information in Engineering Division with the cooperation of the Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Dynamic Systems and Controls Divisions, the new journal will fill a gap in the dissemination of technical information and scholarly innovations in computing and information science as they relate to mechanical engineering.

The technical editor of the publication is Jami Shah, a professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he is a member of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as well as director of the Design Automation Lab.

According to Shah, the mission of JCISE is to serve a new generation of ASME members, software developers and information technology professionals involved in developing or using computing and IT tools in mechanical engineering applications.

JCISE will publish archival research results and information on advanced technical applications in emerging and interdisciplinary fields at the intersection of mechanical engineering, information technology and engineering software.

As Shah pointed out, "In creating the journal, ASME recognized the changing nature of mechanical engineering. These changes have brought shifts in the responsibilities and interests of mechanical engineers. We are at the onset of a new economy that involves new businesses, new ways of conducting business, and new tools and techniques for product development and manufacturing. The new economy is driven by technological innovations in computing, electronic communications and information science. There is great government and private investment in R&D in IT and computing technologies.

"Mechanical engineers are using new software and IT tools in design, analysis, procurement and manufacturing to reduce product development cost and time by orders of magnitude and to explore large numbers of alternatives via virtual and rapid prototyping. Mechanical engineers are not only using these technologies, they are also involved in their development in collaboration with computer scientists, electrical engineers and applied mathematicians."

According to Shah, "The new journal will not only publish full-length research papers, it will also have a separate application track to encourage industry participation."

The journal will feature software and technology reviews, software and data exchange standards, and innovative applications of computing and information science in mechanical product development.

Shah has recruited an impressive list of associate editors to review submissions: Paul K. Wright, Martin Berlin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; Pradeep Khosla, Philip & Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University; Dana Nau, professor of computer science at the University of Maryland; Deba Dutta, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan; Dave Rosen, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech; Martti Mantyla, a Chaired Professor in the Computer Science Department and director of the Information Sciences Institute at the Helsinki Institute of Technology in Finland; Harry Cheng, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Davis; Bianca Falcidieno, director of the Italian national lab IMA-CNR; Sankar Jayaram, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Washington State University; Susan Urban, associate professor of computer science at Arizona State University; Yong Se Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Sung Kyun Kwan University in Korea; and Raj Veeramani, associate professor of industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin.

Industry liaisons for the application track include Ravi Rangan of SDRC's Metaphase Enterprise Solutions Center, Simon Szykman of NIST's Manufacturing Systems Integration Center and Nancy Wang of the Knowledge-based Engineering Group at Ford Motor Co.'s Research Lab.

JCISE will publish four issues a year. The first issue will contain state-of-the-art survey articles by leading experts in each of the nine focus areas of this journal.

Subscriptions cost $50 a year for ASME members, or $75 for international members; for nonmembers and institutions, the rate is $215 a year, or $240 internationally.

Get subscriptions at www.asme. org/catalog, by calling (800) 843-2763 or (973) 882-1167, or by e-mail to infocentral@asme.org.

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