Micro and Nano Forum will return to 2007 Congress

With nearly 70 poster presentations and some 200 attendees, the first-ever ASME Micro and Nano Forum at the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Chicago was a big success — thus ensuring that the program will continue at this year's Congress in November.

The forum, sponsored by ASME's Nanotechnology Institute, brought together for the first time micro- and nanotechnology researchers from the Society's Institutes, and the Knowledge and Communities sectors. The corporate sponsor for the event was Pacific Nanotechnology Inc., whose financial support funded the two best poster awards.

Sang Kim, lead organizer of the event, called the forum "a huge success with very high turnout," especially considering that the forum was organized in only two months.

Kim, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he realized that, typically, more than a quarter of the technical sessions at Congress have some connection to micro- and nanotechnologies. A single forum, he realized, would provide ASME members a good opportunity for technical dialogue and to meet socially.

At the event, cash prizes were awarded to two of the 68 poster presentation teams. A $200 gold prize went to the team of M.L. Chan, G.M. Jaramillo, and D.A. Horsley of the University of California-Davis, Berkeley, Sensor and Actuator Center, for their poster, "Novel Magnetic Micro-Tweezers Leveraging on Magnetic Hard-Disk Drive Technology."

The $100 silver award was given to C.H. Ke, O. Loh, and H. D. Espinosa of Northwestern University for their presentation, "Bistable Nanoswitch."

The session was open to all Congress participants. To find out more about this and other ASME Nanotechnology Institute programs, visit http://nano.asme.org.

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