Change is underlying theme at Congress 2004

Emily Smith
ASME NEWS

Although change was an underlying theme of ASME's 2004 Congress, the more than 4,000 people who attended the annual November meeting in Anaheim, Calif., also got a dose of the same high-level technical exchange that has defined ASME's annual event for decades.

Members of the design team from LeTourneau University (above) in Texas keep an eye on their entry during the final competition of ASME's Student Design Competition. The Region X team placed third in the event. Team members are Michael Connor, Mathew Hammer, Jacob Kobisa and Justin Neilson.

The winning trophy for top design at the Student Design Competition went to Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. The entry was designed and built by members Chad Burns, Dennis O'Connor, Andrew Rummer and Jerrod Hock.

More than 500 technical sessions highlighted current and emerging technologies in eight different technical tracks. Much of that information was captured in the more than 1,600 technical papers that were published in the proceedings, which should be available for purchase later this month through ASME's Digital Store, http://store.asme.org.

Many attendees at the 2004 Congress lined up to ask questions of the ASME leadership about the new direction the Society will be taking and the structure under which it will be operating when the Continuity and Change initiative is completed in June.

Visitors to the floor of the exhibit, which was open during the 2004 Congress, were treated to examples of technical innovation and devices such as this one.

ASME's Board of Governors approved the developments that had been proposed during the five months of Phase I of the Continuity and Change initiative. During Phase II, which will occur over the next five months, the implementation of the BOG-approved changes will be put into place.

For more information about the Continuity and Change initiative and what it will mean for ASME, visit www.asme.org/change.

 

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