ASME Foundation
to provide grants for K-12 student projects
Six proposals that address some of the most important needs of the engineering profession will receive funding from the ASME Foundation. These grants for 2000 were made possible by ASME's World Class . . . By Design capital campaign and endowments from Leighton and Margaret Orr. Read more.

Interest in the world of nanotechnology is so great that the location of ASME's first meeting on the subject, "Beyond Micro Device Engineering: Nanotechnology," had to be moved to accommodate the larger-than-expected crowd. More than 150 people, representing a mix of government, industry and academia, attended the meeting here last month, attracted by the names of featured speakers including: Steven Chu, who shared the Nobel Prize in 1997, Carlo Montemagno, and ASME Fellow Mihail Roco. Read more.

Coverage of Congress 2000

Nearly 4,000 engineering professionals attended ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in November. Attendance at Congress 2000 in Orlando, Fla., was 25 percent higher than in 1999, when it was in Nashville, Tenn. Read more or see related stories: Engineers make wonderful world of Disney possible and Space exploration and biology make up inseparable parts of the future.