George Noon to Speak at the 2004 ASME Mechanical Engineering Education Conference (1/21/04)

Noted heart surgeon Dr. George Noon, chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery and Assist Devices in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, will be the featured speaker at the Saturday, March 6 dinner at the 2004 Mechanical Engineering Education Conference.

The 2004 ASME Mechanical Engineering Education Conference, a forum for leaders of mechanical engineering and related departments to meet, network, debate issues and explore strategies to chart the future of their research and instructional programs, will take place March 5-9, 2004 at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, Fla.

Noon's specialties include the use of devices designed to help the heart pump more efficiently; cardiac, thoracic, vascular, and general surgery; and kidney, heart and lung transplants. His research interests include circulatory assist devices, congestive heart failure, therapies for recovering from heart conditions, and the effect of heart-assist devices on patients. He has authored numerous book chapters and articles for scholarly and professional journals on subjects that include heart transplantation and mechanical heart-assist devices. He also teaches surgical technique and care of the surgical patient.

Noon's talk will build on the theme set earlier in the day by the conference's opening plenary, "Engineering and the Life Sciences." John Linehan, executive director of The Whitaker Foundation, will lead this session, which will address how engineering and the life sciences can be integrated to develop educational opportunities for future mechanical engineering students. Topics include teaching modern biology to engineers; biomedical engineering and biotechnology projects in capstone design; courses for a bioengineering minor; graduate biomedical engineering courses; and joint biomedical engineering/ mechanical engineering degree programs.

To find out more about the conference and register online, visit www.asme.org/education/dh/me2004. Registration will be taken on-line or by phone, fax, e-mail or regular mail. The advance registration fee, which includes all scheduled meals and is available until January 23, 2004, is $350 for ASME members and $450 for non-members.



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