ASME Turbo Expo to Feature Four Training Workshops (2/18/09) ASME will hold four workshops in conjunction with ASME Turbo Expo 2009 this June in Orlando, Fla. The workshops, providing instruction and hands-on training for technical professionals in the gas turbine field, will be held June 6–7 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort. The workshops will cover topics including physics-based internal air system modeling, gas turbine thermodynamics and performance modeling, and gas turbine metallurgy and repair technology. Each of the workshops will run for two days. ASME Turbo Expo — Gas Turbine Technical Congress and Exposition will open on June 8. The conference, which will be comprised of a technical program and exhibit, will cover engine design, materials, cogeneration, alternative fuels, combustion diagnostics, and micro-turbines, among other topics. The Turbo Expo is organized and managed by the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI). For more information on the event, visit www.asmeconferences.org/te09. IGTI to Hold Six Courses in March The IGTI has also scheduled a series of training classes for engineers and other technical professionals this March 23–27 at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Six courses will cover combined-cycle power plants, fluid mechanics, failure analysis in gas turbines, performance testing in compressors, and other subjects. The classes to be held in San Antonio are: • “Introduction to Gas Turbines and Centrifugal Compressors,” on March 23–24; • “Basic Thermodynamics of Gas Turbine Combined-Cycle Plants,” from March 23–25; • “Root Cause Failure Analysis of Gas Turbines,” on March 25; • “Compressor Performance Testing and Dynamics,” on March 26; • “Basic Fluid Mechanics,” on March 26–27; and • “Engineering Ethics in Action,” on March 27. For more information on these short courses, visit http://igti.asme.org. Nanoscale Workshop Set for April The Society will convene a “Nanoscale Measurement Challenges for Energy Applications Global Workshop,” from April 26–29 in Albany, N.Y., to help attendees identify the grand challenges for measurement of properties at the nanoscale. Speakers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the University of Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering will participate. The workshop, which will be co-hosted by FEI Co., will explore the following topics: • Current properties measured at the nanoscale for energy applications; • Current measurement techniques and improvements that may be valuable; and • Desired measurements that cannot be made today and anticipated value to the scientific community. To find out more about the “Nanoscale Measurement Challenges for Energy Applications Global Workshop,” visit www.asmeconferences.org/Nanomeasurement09. ASMEnews Debuts Next Month! Beginning next month, ASME News Online will take on a rich and contemporary new look and provide expanded functionality. The goal of the redesign is to make this important ASME communications vehicle a better tool for members to access the Society and learn the latest information about the organization and its members. ASMEnews will be delivered as an electronic newsletter twice per month to members who have provided ASME with an e-mail address. ASMEnews will include articles and features about ASME, columns by ASME officers, useful links to newsletters the Society generates and updated links to division pages, ASME Web sites, and other products and areas of interest within the Society. There will also be a link to late-breaking industry news of the day. A complementary Web site, www.asmenews.org, will store the e-newsletter’s content. The new ASMEnews will be a central point for general communication between the Society and its members.

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