Advances in Multidisciplinary Engineering Track: IMECE Abstracts Due March 2
We are now accepting abstract submissions for ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), scheduled November 13 – 19, 2015, in Houston, Texas. Submit an abstract by Monday, March 2 to present your paper to more than 4,000 attendees representing more than 20 mechanical engineering disciplines.
Read more about Track 19: Advances in Multidisciplinary Engineering in the attachment, which includes the following technical topics: Tribology, Manufacturing and Productivity, Polymer Processing, Axiomatic Design and Complex Systems, and Multidisciplinary Engineering Education.
Please visit the “Submit Abstract” section of the IMECE website to review the updated submission requirements. Also, please ensure that your submission represents either the first publication of material or the first publication of an original compilation of information from a number of sources as specifically noted by footnotes and/or bibliography. Your submission should not be similar to other work submitted to, or under consideration by, other organizations and/or journals.
Visit www.asmeconferences.org/IMECE2015 to learn more.

Is computer-based design analysis (FEM, CFD…) to be performed by an engineering designer (partly) or solely by a design analyst or by both? Help wanted to answer a brief survey.
We would very much appreciate your help and that of your company in answering a few questions on whether and – if so - how and by whom Computer-Based Design Analysis (CBDA) is performed in your company. The survey is part of a larger project at Lund University/Halmstad University in Sweden, aiming to provide a research-grounded concept of CBDA in the industry of tomorrow.
Link to the introductory letter
Link to the survey: http://dm.quicksearch.se/s/wf.asp?s=5B401C15Z68D7.
Your participation is highly appreciated!

Visit the new “ASME Public Policy Education Center (PPEC)!” The PPEC will serve as a “one-stop-shop” for policy developments related to ASME’s priority issues and integrates current Government Relations resources specifically pertaining to ASME’s Public Policy Agenda priorities, including legislation, regulations, policy announcements, etc. Of particular interest to ASME members will be the daily news feeds. Today’s news includes articles such as:
• Senators air nuclear grievances at NRC confirmation hearing
• Oil Boom benefitting Everyone but Oil Producers
• Congress Must Modernize Defense with Innovation & Intelligence
• Feds Float New Safety Rules for Oil Trains
• Next Gen Could Change Airplane Navigation
The PPEC is at:

ASME ANNOUNCES THE ASME ADVANCED MANUFACTURING FELLOWSHIP AT "AMERICA MAKES!"
ASME is pleased to announce our first Advanced Manufacturing Fellowship opportunity at "America Makes" in Youngstown, Ohio.
The Fellow will serve a one-year term as a liaison with internal and external partners, including policymakers, to help America Makes enhance its network of education and workforce development solution providers and help organize the development of the Body of Knowledge on Additive Manufacturing process, material, and design understanding and methods, both those emerging and those currently in practice, that offer promise for engineering design and technical implementation in the production process.

A $60,000 stiped will be provided. For full information and an application, please visit:

Why employ Best Practices' Knowledge during Product Design Development?
Due to complexity of products, we design today, knowledge must be managed globally to fully utilize corporate information and to provide a competitive edge. Unless intellectual properties (IPs) associated with product life-cycle management (PLM) & development process is captured for someone else in your company to use them again (regularly) at a later date, learning, productivity, and innovation are stifled.
If you are interested in knowing how-to, please go to the following links for details:

List of Success Stories and Product Design Applications:
kcrplm-applications.html

Be sure to join ASME on Wednesday, May 7 at 2pm to hear from Dr. Mehmet Toner of Harvard Medical School and Dr. Peter Kuhn of Scripps Physics Oncology Center on Circulating Tumor Cells and the future of cancer research!

LAST CHANCE TO VOTE ON ASME'S 2015-2016 PUBLIC POLICY PRIORITIES!
Your help is needed in establishing the top six federal Public Policy Agenda issue priorities for ASME to address during the legislative session for 2015–2016. ASME's Public Policy Agenda is a very important tool for the Society, as it will drive Government Relations activities and programs at the federal level. All ASME members can vote on the issues that they believe are having the greatest impact on ASME and engineers in general by completing our online policy survey no later than Monday, March 31st. Follow this link to the Survey: