A guide to special events at this year's Congress

The ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, held this month (Nov. 5-10) at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., features a jam-packed schedule with technical sessions, forums, presentations, awards luncheons and other special events that promises there will be something for everyone attending the conference.

Below is a guide to some of this year's offerings. You may want to print the list and carry it with you as you wind your way through the Congress activities at the Disney Swan and Dolphin Hotels.

Saturday, Nov. 5

8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Young Engineers Forum, Day One
Oceanic 7 Room, Lobby Level

5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Archimedes Club Reception (By Invitation)
Oceanic 8 Room, Lobby Level

6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
History and Heritage Engineering Historian Award Reception
Oceanic 5 Room, Lobby Level

Sunday, Nov. 6

8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Young Engineers Forum, Day Two
Oceanic 6, 7, 8 Rooms, Lobby Level

8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
ASME Board of Governors meeting
Northern Hemisphere E3 and E4 Ballrooms, Ballroom Level

8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Student Design Competition
Northern Hemisphere A1-A4 Ballrooms, Ballroom Level

1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Brunch for Diversity Forum Leaders
Europe 1 Room, Lobby Level

1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Federal Fellow Forum: "How Can Engineers Make An Impact on Critical Issues?"
Europe 4, Lobby Level
Greeting: Susan Ipri Brown, Former ASME Federal Fellow and Member, ASME Board on Government Relations
Keynote: Susan Skemp, ASME Past President and Current ASME White House Fellow
Panel of Current Federal Fellows: Henry Abeyta, ASME Congressional Fellow; Jacob Stenzler, ASME Congressional Fellow; and Susan Skemp, ASME White House Fellow Moderator: Marc Goldsmith, Vice President, ASME Center for Public Awareness

2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Special Session: "The Future of Engineering — The Role of Diversity in Engineering Education"
Asia 2 Room, Lobby Level

6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Fellows Recognition Reception
Europe 9 Room, Lobby Level

6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Student Reception
Northern Hemisphere A1-A4 Ballrooms, Ballroom Level

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
125th Anniversary Committee Reception
Europe 1 Room, Lobby Level

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Old Guard Reception
Northern Hemisphere E1 Ballroom, Ballroom Level

Monday, Nov. 7

Noon - 1:15 p.m.
President's Luncheon
Southern Hemisphere III, Ballroom Level Tickets: $41
Sponsored by the Committee on Honors
Presider: Harry Armen, ASME Past President
Speaker: Gene Feigel, ASME President
Award Recipients: Adan Akay, Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control and Acoustics; Barry J. Cooper, Soichiro Honda Medal; Amir Faghri, Fellow, University of Connecticut, James Harry Potter Gold Medal; Samuel J. Korellis, Fellow, Dynegy Inc., Performance Test Codes Medal; Ching-Pang Lee, Fellow, General Electric Co., Aircraft Engines, Thomas A. Edison Patent Awards; Goetz K. Oertel, Dixy Lee Ray Award; and Blaine W. Roberts, J. Hall Taylor Medal

5:30 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.
ASME State of the Society Address
Northern Hemisphere BCD Ballroom, Ballroom Level

6:10 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Col. Mike Mullane, NASA Shuttle Astronaut and Novelist
Northern Hemisphere BCD Ballroom, Ballroom Level

7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Opening of the Congress Exhibition
Atlantic Hall

Tuesday, Nov. 8

9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
Southern Hemisphere III Ballroom, Ballroom Level
Speaker: Savio L-Y Woo, University of Pittsburgh
Topic: "Going from In-Vitro to In-Vivo - The New Challenge for Bioengineers to Keep Your Knee and Shoulder Healthy"

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Warner T. Koiter Medalist Lecture
Northern Hemisphere A-2, Ballroom Level
Speaker: Professor R.W. Ogden, University of Glasgow
Topic: "The Effect of Fiber Orientation Distributions on the Mechanics of Nonlinearly Elastic Fiber-Reinforced Solids: A Phenomenological Approach"

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Henry Robinson Towne Lecture
Northern Hemisphere E-1, Ballroom Level
Speaker: John Goglia, St. Louis University
Topic: "Life After 9/11, A Back Porch Conversation"

Noon - 1:15 p.m.
Members & Students Luncheon
Southern Hemisphere II, Ballroom Level
Sponsored by the Committee on Honors
Presider: Gene Feigel, ASME President
Student Rate: $20; Member Rate: $40
Award Recipients: Howard Berkof, Ingersoll-Rand Co., Old Guard Young Engineers Award; Mandy Brogdon, Student Member, University of Dayton, Charles T. Main Student Section Award, Gold; Lanier S. Cauley, University of South Alabama, Student Section Advisor Award; Justin Crapps, Student Member, Mississippi State University, Charles T. Main Student Section Award, Silver; Warren R. Devries, Fellow, Iowa State University, Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award; Allan D. Kraus, Honorary Member, Frank Von Flue Award; Robert Parker, Ohio State University, Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award; George Sehi, Fellow, Sinclair Community College, Ben C. Sparks Medal; Valerie Stringer, Student Member, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Arthur L. Williston Medal; and Vincent Wilczynski, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Edwin F. Church Medal

3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Nyquist Lecture
Northern Hemisphere E-3 Ballroom Level
Speaker: K.J. Åström, University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: "Nyquist and His Seminal Papers"

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Honors Assembly
Northern Hemisphere B,C,D, Ballroom Level
Awards to be presented include: ASME Honorary Membership to Sia Nemat-Nasser, Governor John H. Sununu and ASME Past President Charles O. Velzy; the ASME Medal to Robert E. Uhrig; the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal to Kathleen M. Bader; the Melvin R. Green Codes and Standards Medal to James H. Turner; the Holley Medal to James D. Walker; the ASME Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies Inc. Medal to Joseph Bordogna; the M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal of ASME/SME to James J. Padilla; and the Spirit of St. Louis Medal to Robert H. Liebeck

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Honors Reception
Southern Hemisphere III Ballroom, Ballroom Level

7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Applied Mechanics Division Honors and Awards Dinner
Australia 3 Room, Lobby Level

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Honors Dinner
Southern Hemisphere IV Ballroom, Ballroom Level

7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Dynamics Systems and Control Awards Dinner
Southern Hemisphere II Ballroom, Ballroom Level
Sponsored by the Dynamics Systems and Control Division
Speaker: Prof. Roger W. Brocket, Harvard University, the Oldenburger Medal Award Topic: "Minimal Attention as a Design Principle in Animals and Machines"

Wednesday, Nov. 9

11 a.m. - Noon
Special session: ASME Response to Disasters
Topic: How ASME can better prepare and respond to emergencies, such as natural disasters and other calamities, using the resources of engineers to assist stricken areas. All are invited to bring ideas and suggestions to an open discussion on this topic.
Europe 5 Room, Lobby Level

1 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Ralph Coats Roe Medal Lecture
Australia 2 Room, Lobby Level
Speaker: Winfred M. Phillips, ASME Past President
Topic: "Engineering - The Future"

3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Rail Transportation Division Author's Coffee
Europe 6 Room, Lobby Level

3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Rayleigh Lecture & Reception
Southern Hemisphere III Ballroom, Ballroom Level
Speaker: Robert. L. Clark, Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering, Duke University
Topic: "Structural Acoustics, From Macro to Micro"

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Washington State University School of MME Reception
Europe 9 Room, Lobby Level

7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Heat Transfer Division K-16/ Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division Wine and Cheese Reception
Europe 5 Room, Lobby Level

Thursday, Nov. 10

6:45 - 7:30 a.m.
Rail Transportation Division Author's Breakfast
Europe 1 Room, Lobby Level

11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Materials Division Nadai and Orr Awards Lecture
Australia 3 Room, Lobby Level
Speaker: Theodore Nicholas, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AFIT/ENY, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
Topic: "High Cycle Fatigue in Metals"

Noon - 2 p.m.
Advanced Energy Systems Division Luncheon
Southern Hemisphere III Ballroom, Ballroom Level
Sponsored by the Advanced Energy Systems Division
Awards to be presented include: Best Paper Award to "Performance Characteristics of a Microturbine-Double Effect Absorption Chiller CHP System" by Timothy Wagner, Mark Marler and Sung-Han Jung, United Technologies Research Center; Best Student Paper Award to "Simulation of Pendant Droplets and Falling Films in Horizontal Tube Absorbers" by Jesse Killion and Srinivas Garimella, Georgia Institute of Technology
Speaker: Rama Venkatasubramaniam, Director, Center for Thermoelectrics Research, RTI International
Topic: "Recent Advances in Thermoelectric Materials and Energy Technologies"
Ticket: $41

Noon - 2 p.m.
Materials Division Awards Luncheon
Southern Hemisphere I Ballroom, Ballroom Level
Sponsored by the ASME Materials Division
Presider: Robert C. Wetherhold, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Ticket: $41

Noon - 2 p.m.
Process Industries Division Luncheon
Southern Hemisphere IV Ballroom, Ballroom Level
Sponsored by the ASME Process Industries Division
Presider: Samuel Sami, University of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Ticket: $41

12:45 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Rail Transportation Division Luncheon
Australia 2 Room, Lobby Level
Sponsored by the ASME Rail Transportation Division
Luncheon Speaker: Dan Welsh, Project Engineer, Walt Disney World
Topic: "Disney World Monorail System"
Ticket: $41

6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Taylor and Francis and Professor W.J. Minkowycz Reception
Australia 3 Room, Lobby Level

7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Fluids Engineering Division Reception
Southern Hemisphere III Ballroom, Ballroom Level

7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Manufacturing Engineering Division Dinner
Southern Hemisphere IV Ballroom, Ballroom Level

7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Noise Control and Acoustics Division Wine and Cheese Reception
Australia 2 Room, Lobby Level

7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Heat Transfer Division Awards Reception and Banquet
Southern Hemisphere I, Ballroom Level
Sponsored by the ASME Heat Transfer Division
Presider: Michael K. Jensen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Featured Speaker: Ronald Phelps, NASA, Kennedy Space Center
Topic: "NASA: The Organization and its Programs"

7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Division Awards
Europe 1 Room, Lobby Level
Presider: Bilal M. Ayyub, University of Maryland
Speaker: Addison Bain, Hydrogen Safety Expert
Topic: "The Hindenburg Disaster: A Compelling Theory of Probable Cause and Effect"

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