Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference to take place in Irvine, Calif. (4/17/06)

The Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference will be held June 8–9 at the McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium at the University of California, Irvine campus.

The conference, presented by the ASME Nanotechnology Institute, will feature leading authorities in the commercial and academic arenas and focus on these eight technical areas:

• Monitoring the Environment
• Imaging Diagnostics
• Simulation and Modeling
• Device Testing
• Bio-Sensors
• Device Development
• Therapeutic Devices
• Regulatory Issues

The technical sessions will comprise papers by mechanical device engineers, research scientists, government and academic personnel, as well as those involved in medical device research, discovery, clinical evaluation and delivery of medical devices.

The meeting's technical program will be chaired by Abe Lee of the University of California's Henry Samueli School of Engineering's biomedical engineering department, and co-chaired by Goran Matijasevic of the University of California's Henry Samueli School of Engineering's Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility.

The meeting also will include a combination reception/ exhibition/poster session, to be held June 8 at the University Club.

For details on registration, visit www.asmeconferences.org/NanoBio06/ConfRegistration.cfm.

For more information on the conference, visit www.asmeconferences.org/NanoBio06.

ASME to present $50,000 in scholarships at the FIRST Robotics Championships next week

The ASME Foundation and the ASME Auxiliary will award 10 FIRST Clarke Scholarships of $5,000 apiece at the FIRST Robotics Competition National Championship event, to be held April 27–29 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

The scholarship program was devised as a way to recognize and reward students whose FIRST experience has inspired an interest in pursuing an engineering career.

The FIRST Clarke Scholarships will be given to high school seniors who are active on a FIRST Competition team. Students must be nominated by an ASME member, ASME Auxiliary member, or ASME student member who is active in the FIRST Competition.

The awards are given for the first year of study (nonrenewable) at an accredited university's mechanical engineering or mechanical engineering technology program.

To find out more about the FIRST Clarke Scholarships, visit www.asme.org/Education/FinancialAid/
Scholarships/Auxiliary_FIRST_Clarke.cfm or www.asme.org/Events/Contests/Partnership.cfm.

Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels Conference set for Ireland in June

The Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels will be offered June 19–21 at the Stokes Research Institute on the University of Limerick campus in Limerick, Ireland.

The new location for the conference was chosen to help attendees from all over the world to come and participate in this unique meeting of cutting-edge research in a dynamic field.

The conference is intended to provide a platform for researchers to exchange information and identify research needs in this emerging area encompassing many engineering and biomedical disciplines.

The event's guest speaker will be Alfonso Ortega, who is the Thermal Transport and Thermal Processing program director and the Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Teams program coordinator for the National Science Foundation. Ortega's presentation will outline "U.S. National Science Foundation Initiatives in Micro- and Nanoscale Research."

For more information or to register, visit www.asmeconferences.org/ICNMM06/.

For information on other ASME Nanotechnology Institute events, visit www.asmenews.org/meetcourse/techsem.html?
gad=CPHRnLcCEgjtHLI8Q9zVhxjt9d_-AyCpnJQU.