Resolution Honoring ASME Passes Unanimously in U.S. Senate (2/17/05)

The United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday congratulating ASME on its 125th anniversary.

The resolution, Senate Concurrent Resolution 13, describes ASME as "one of the premier professional organizations focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering community." It was introduced by Sen. John Sununu, who is a mechanical engineer.

An identical resolution will be considered by the House of Representatives on Feb. 28, when members return from a week-long recess honoring Washington's Birthday.

The House resolution, which will carry the S.Con.Res designation, was introduced by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of seven of his House colleagues.

The Senate resolution commends ASME for its "key role in protecting the welfare and safety of the public through the development and promulgation of over 600 codes and standards…routinely used by industry and people in the United States and around the world. It also notes ASME's role in ensuring "the provision of quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education for young people as a way to foster and encourage the advancement of technology."

To read the resolution in its entirety, visit www.asmenews.org/latebrk/res13.pdf.

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Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Coming Up

Engineers Week begins Monday with global celebrations planned throughout the week. One day during the week to mark is Tuesday, Feb. 24.

"Girl Day" commemorates an effort to bring more females into the engineering profession. On this day, thousands of female engineers, with support from their male counterparts, will directly mentor more than one million girls and young women in the K-12 are-range with their firsthand experiences in engineering.

ASME is co-chairing EWeek this year with BP. Involvement with "Girl Day" is one of several activities members in ASME sections or divisions can support.

For a list of other activities worldwide to hold during EWeek, visit www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/girlsday.shtml.

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ASME Supports EWB-USA's Post-Tsunami Rebuilding Efforts

During a press briefing next week in Washington, D.C., ASME and other Engineers Week participants will hold a press briefing to announce the cooperative efforts of Engineers Without Borders-USA, ASME and other professional engineering associations to provide reconstruction relief to tsunami-stricken areas.

Speakers at the briefing, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday, from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the National Press Club, include ASME President Harry Armen and Victoria Rockwell, who is the ASME chair of EWeek 2005.

Other scheduled speakers are Leslie Collins, executive director, Engineers Week; Catherine Leslie, executive director, Engineers Without Borders-USA and Pat Natale, trustee of the United Engineering Foundation.

A question and answer session will follow the presentations. Interviews will be available immediately following the briefing.

For more information, visit www.asme.org/publicaffairs or www.ewb-usa.org.

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Discounts Offered with Biomedicine Miniaturization Registration

Valid until Feb. 28 only: ASME members will save 50 percent on any short course at Biomedicine Miniaturization 2005 — and also receive a 50 percent discount on registration for ASME's Fourth Integrated Nanosystems Conference, which will take place in September, for yourself or a colleague from your organization.

In order to get this special deal, members must register and pay for a Biomedicine Miniaturization short course by Feb. 28. Members must call the ASME customer service department at (800) 843-2763 in order to register for this discount.

After registering for the short course, members must then send an e-mail to ASME's Nanotechnology Institute, at nano@asme.org, to qualify for the discount Nanosystems Conference registration.

Biomedicine Miniaturization 2005, from April 5–8 at the Hilton Irvine Orange County Airport Hotel, will be a robust, timely and expanded training program. This year's program will build on the success of the 2004 Nanotechnology Growth Opportunities for the Biotech and Medical Device Sectors Impact Forum, which attracted engineers, researchers, business, legal and finance professionals from Nanotrope, Medtronic, NASA Ames Research Center, Nanosciences, AMI Semiconductor, Bioforce Nanosciences, Pacific Growth Strategy, Pillsbury Winthrop, Applied Micro Structures, Allergan, Scripps Research Institute, Tektronix, Versant Ventures, and other companies and organizations.

The event, which will be co-located with ASME's Third Bioengineering Technology Seminar, will include intense, solutions-oriented short courses such as "Biomaterials in the Design of Medical Devices"; "Bionanotechnology: The Use of Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications"; "Mechanics and Protection for Head Related Sports Injuries"; "Neuro-rehabilitation: Measurement and Control"; and "Intellectual Property and Intellectual Asset Management."

Established firms and start-ups are invited to participate in the Biomedicine Miniaturization exhibition. For more information, contact Brandes Smith at smithb@asme.org.

Integrated Nanosystems — Design, Synthesis and Applications will be held from Sept. 14–16 at the University of California, Berkeley.

To find out more about Biomedicine Miniaturization 2005, visit www.asmeconferences.org/nanobio05.




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