Congress Draws Big Crowd (11/15/05)

ORLANDO, Fla. — The 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, held here earlier this month, drew a crowd of more than 3,000 and featured more than 600 technical sessions, and some 200 committee meetings, forums, and lectures.

ASME President Richard E. "Gene" Feigel delivers the State of the Society Address at the Congress.

The event was highlighted by a special State of the Society Address, which was given by ASME President Richard E. (Gene) Feigel and President-Elect Terry E. Shoup. The keynote speech that followed it was presented by NASA Shuttle astronaut Col. Mike Mullane. More than 500 attended this event, which took place on Monday, Nov. 7 and preceded the opening of the exposition hall.

At the ASME Student Design Competition finals, the team from the University of New Orleans, which weathered Hurricane Katrina and made it to the competition, took top honors in the contest with its prototype of a bulk material transporter. The team won the $3,000 cash first prize, while their student section received $1,000.

Student teams from North Carolina State University and North Dakota State University placed second and third in the design contest finals, respectively.

For this year's ASME Student Design Competition, student teams were faced with the challenge of designing a prototype of a bulk material transporter.

Full coverage of the 2005 Congress will appear next month in the December ASME News Online (www.asmenews.org).

Airbus and Aerospace Valley France President is Honorary Chair of 2006 Micro- and Nanotechnology Conference

Jean-Marc Thomas, president of Airbus and Aerospace Valley France, was selected honorary chair of the 2006 CANEUS (Canada-Europe-USA-Asia) International Conference. The CANEUS conference is the foremost international forum devoted to successfully transitioning emerging micro- and nanotechnology (MNT) concepts to aerospace system applications.

The 2006 meeting will be held from Aug. 27-Sept. 1, 2006, in Toulouse, France. The ASME Nanotechnology Institute is a sponsor of the event and ASME will publish the conference proceedings.

The CANEUS conference is devoted to bringing together key scientists, engineers, program managers, investors, and policy-makers who represent both MNT development community and aerospace end users.

CANEUS 2006 aims to help participants guide their micro- and nanotechnology concepts successfully to market-generally, many micro- and nanotechnology concepts never achieve the technological maturity required for use in aerospace applications. The meeting will explore the formation of an integrated "cradle-to-grave" approach for MNT development.

For information on attending CANEUS 2006 or exhibiting a product or service at the conference, visit http://asmeconferences.org/caneus06, or contact Milind Pimprikar, (514) 499-3959, e-mail mp@caneus.org.



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