ASME NEWS Online -- October 2003

Celebrating 100 Years of Flight
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The Online Newspaper of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers/Vol. 22 No. 10/October 2003

Online Congress coverage
Make sure to visit ASME NEWS.org the week of Nov. 15-21 to find out what's happening at the 2003 Congress, quickly and easily. Coverage of most Congress events will be posted on Late-Breaking News on ASME NEWS.org within hours of them happening.

Congress technical tracks examine homeland security, nanotechnology
The Homeland Security track will have eight technical sessions featuring several experts in the protection of critical assets and the different industries that are potential targets of terrorism. Read more.

NASA joins Celebration of Flight panel
The newly appointed acting associate administrator for the Office of Aerospace Technology at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., will participate in the Celebration of Flight plenary session next month during ASME International's Mechanical Engineering Congress in Washington. Read more.

NSF deputy director will moderate diversity forum at ASME Congress
Joseph Bordogna, deputy director of the National Science Foundation, will moderate "Diversity in Mechanical Engineering Education and Workforce,"
a forum that will take place next month during the ASME Congress in Washington, DC It will focus on the needs and benefits of a diverse workforce, as well as on successful strategies for achieving diversity in engineering education and industry. Read more.

Change Is In The Air

Along with structural and procedural changes under consideration for ASME, there's also a visual change being considered. The artwork above is a piece of a larger picture that will represent ASME into the future. To find out what it is, attend the ASME Congress key-
note address on Monday, November 17, at 5:45 p.m. and stay afterward for a special announcement.

Engineers give perspective on 2003 Northeast blackout
The panel session, "An Engineering Perspective on the Blackout of 2003," was sponsored by ASME International, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the United States Energy Association. Read more.

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