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  • IMECE 2019 Presentation-Only Submission


    Call for Presentation-Only Abstracts

    Submission Deadline: July 22, 2019

    SUBMIT ABSTRACT


    Missed the abstract deadline for paper submission? No worries! We still have opportunities for you to share your research and expertise! Demonstrate your contribution to mechanical engineering at ASME's largest research and development conference by submitting your Presentation-Only abstract (for oral or poster presentation) to a track below:

    • Acoustics, Vibration, and Phononics
    • Advanced Manufacturing
    • Advanced Materials: Design, Processing, Characterization and Applications
    • Advances in Aerospace Technology
    • Biomedical & Biotechnology Engineering
    • Design, Systems and Complexity
    • Dynamics, Vibration, and Control 
    • Energy
    • Engineering Education
    • Fluids Engineering
    • Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering
    • Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids
    • Micro- and Nano-Systems Engineering and Packaging
    • ASME International Undergraduate Research and Design Expo (Posters Only)
    • NSF (Includes NSF Student Competition - Posters only)
    • Virtual Podium (Posters)


    Please note that submitting a presentation does not guarantee that you will present at IMECE 2019. If you have any questions on the submission process, please contact congresshelp@asme.org.


    Presentation-Only Submission Deadline:
    July 22, 2019

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  • ASME IGTI: Call for Student Leadership Positions


    The ASME IGTI Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is a group of students who work to enhance the Turbo Expo conference every year. The ASME IGTI SAC Leadership is looking to fill the positions of SAC Vice Chair and SAC Secretary for the 2020 fiscal year. The SAC Vice Chair supports the Chair’s activities and represents the Student Advisory Committee if the Chair is unable to do so. The Vice Chair is also responsible to recruit and lead the student liaisons to support the 20+ technical committees. The Vice Chair is also heavily involved in the SAC decision-making process and then becomes the chair in 2021.


    The SAC Secretary represents the interests of the students who attend Turbo Expo and serve as the liaison to the ASME IGTI Leadership. The Secretary also drafts all formal correspondence for the Student Advisory Committee and will take meeting minutes and distribute them after every meeting.


    These two positions will give students the opportunity to develop their leadership skills as they interact with the ASME IGTI committees while working to improve Turbo Expo 2020. These opportunities will also afford students the chance to network with engineering professionals in a variety of industries.


    Does this interest you? If so, the deadline to apply is May 20, 2019. Don’t miss a chance to grow your skills and develop connections that will further your career. If you have any questions about the application process, please email igtiprogram@asme.org.


    Submit an Application for SAC Vice Chair!

    Submit an Application for SAC Secretary!


    Questions?
    CONTACT
    ASME International
    Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI)
    11757 Katy Freeway, Ste. 380
    Houston, TX
    77079-1733 USA
    (281) 810-5451
    igtiprogram@asme.org

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  • Mechanics of Accuracy in Engineering Design of Machines and Robots, Volume 2: Stiffness and Metrology

    By Vladimir T. Portman

    The book is being published in two volumes and four parts.
    Each part combines a theoretical chapter with applications to machines and robots with different kinematic types. The formalized consideration is accompanied with application examples, which, as a rule, are explained with numerical solutions using realistic initial values.

    This Volume II continues consideration of the accuracy-related problem as applied to machines and robots started in Volume I.

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  • ASME Engineering Festivals™ (ASME E-Fests) have launched ASME EFx™ events!


    An ASME EFx is designed to bring the excitement, community, innovation and vibrant experience of an ASME E-Fests flagship event, to local colleges and universities around the world. An ASME EFx event is planned and executed by local organizers with the support of ASME staff, and allows the spirit of engineering and connection to ASME and ASME E-Fests, to spread to students on a global level, without the cost and travel prohibitions that may exist by attending an ASME E-Fests event. EFx events are an exciting opportunity for local colleges and universities to engage their engineering students in a unique way, provide professional development and skills training and prepare students to compete at full ASME E-Fests.

    HOST AN ASME EFX ON YOUR CAMPUS THIS FALL (October & November 2019)!
    Application Deadline: May 15, 2019
    Apply Today

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  • 2019 ASME E-Fest Asia Pacific Impacts Student Social Experience



    The third Annual ASME E-Fest Asia Pacific, an engineering undergrad student convention, was held February 1-3, 2019 at VIT University at Vellore, located in southern state of Tamil Nadu in India.

     

    The 3-day E-Fest AP 2019 event witnessed the attendance of around 1300 students and faculty participation from more than 70 universities/colleges.

     



    The neck to neck competition between 40 teams in HPVC; 23 teams in SDC; 40 Old Guard poster, oral & technical presentations; 18 teams in IAM3D and 24 teams in Aeromania (involved Remote Controlled aeroplane modelling) led everyone’s adrenaline levels soaring high. One of the highlights of this year’s competitions was that the majority of winners were first-time participating teams from new students sections. Several of them participated in the EFx series held last year in India.

     

    Equally well attended were the non-competitions activities like ASME path forward session, E4C Social Innovation session, Bio-inspired design thinking workshop and Additive Manufacturing workshop. The engineers had their share of going to party and have a ball with 2 concerts from the rock bands like Pineapple Express India and When Chai Met Toast. The event was inaugurated by Dr. Gopichand Katragadda (Founder CEO, Myelin Foundry, Ex-CTO – TATA Group, Ex-MD - GE India Technology Centre), Mr. A. K. Balasubrahmanian (Director-Technical, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited), Mr. V. Balamurugan (OS & Director, Combat Vehicle Research & Development Establishment) and Mr. T. Parasuram (President & CEO, ENEXIO – BGR Energy) who were the VIP guests at event. Mr. John Hasselmann, Managing Director, Global and public affairs, ASME and Callie G. Tourigny, SVP SECD, ASME accompanied the VIP’s on the stage.



    For more information on E-Fests, and to access articles, videos, and more visit efests.asme.org.
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  • Oilwell Drilling Engineering

    The book starts with optimum drilling practices,  which provide the highest rate of penetration (ROP) at minimum footage cost ($/ft).  While these factors are commonly acknowledged in the drilling community, they need to be underscored in any drilling text, especially for those entering the science of drilling and production.   These fundamental elements of drilling provide the foundation for more detailed analyses throughout the book.


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  • ASME Graduation Stoles – now for sale!

    No graduation look is complete without your ASME Graduation stole!

    Show your ASME pride and dedication to your ASME chapter. Each 72’’ stole is silver satin with an embroidered blue ASME logo.
     



     
    Shipping Information:
    Shipping cost will be calculated at checkout.  Please refer to the ASME sales policy for more information.  
    Graduation Stoles will be sent directly to the shipping address.
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  • Increase Your Productivity with AccessEngineering






    Enjoy access to the tools and resources members rely on to stay on the cutting-edge of the latest developments in today’s emerging technologies.

    A few examples:

    Manufacturing Engineering Handbook, Second Edition
    This revised guide on traditional, advanced, and emerging manufacturing engineering technologies, principles, and applications shows how to optimize all aspects of the global manufacturing process.

    Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering: The Complete Green Building Design Resource
    This highly visual resource goes beyond theory and provides solid, hands-on mechanical and electrical engineering information on the design and installation of sustainable energy systems.

    Robots and Robotics: Principles, Systems, and Industrial Applications
    This richly illustrated guide looks at the entire field of robotics, from design and production to deployment, operation, and maintenance.

    Biomedical Engineering and Design Handbook, Volumes 1 & 2
    A cutting edge, state-of-the-art guide to the fundamentals of biomedical engineering, covering the biomechanics of the human body, biomaterials, bioelectronics, new medical devices and equipment, surgical and therapeutic techniques, and clinical innovations.

    Pressure Vessels: The ASME Code Simplified, Eighth Edition
    This essential reference guides mechanical engineers and technicians through the maze of the continually updated International Boiler and Pressure Vessel Codes that govern safety, design, fabrication, and inspection.
     
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  • MSOE: FLAME III Event

    Female Leaders Advocating for Mechanical Engineering

    The FLAME event was the third annual successful Mechanical Engineering led event for female high school students which was held on December 8, 2018. FLAME was hosted on the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) campus and included a full day of mechanical engineering activities organized and led by ME students from MSOE’s ASME Student Chapter and from Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Sam Hoover, who led this event, is now a MSOE ME Sophomore student, the ASME Chapter President, and attended the first FLAME event as a high school senior. Presentation and demonstrations were conducted by ME faculty and staff (Dr. Cindy Barnicki, Dr. Katie Reichl and Dr. Nathan Patterson.  The Design Challenge was created by and led by Dr. Dan Williams. Anne Deisinger, ME Project Manager, and Elizabeth McLean, STEM Associate Director, coordinated the event.


    Thirty-nine female high school students from five area high schools attended this day long FLAME event.  The schools that were represented were: St. Augustine Prep with 21, Milwaukee Excellence Charter School with 15 and one student each from Benet Academy, DSHA and Oakfield high School.  These students enjoyed the event and had opportunities to meet and dialog with ME professors and current ME students. 

    The FLAME event was held in the Grohmann Tower and Science Building on the MSOE campus. The event began with Samantha Hoover, ASME Student Chapter President, presenting an overview of Mechanical Engineering which led into our keynote speaker, MSOE ME Alum, Megan Kroll’s presentation and then, off to tours and experiments/demonstrations within several ME labs conducted by three ME professors mentioned above. A question and answer panel session staffed by SWE members was held during lunch.  The event ended with a design challenge where teams of 3 students each built a pneumatic arm with LEGOS and hoses; this was one of their favorite activities.



    Design Challenge Details
    Teams built the mechanical portion of their pneumatic arm per instructions that are provided.  For this part, they needed to organize themselves to split up the construction work to accomplish the work in a timely fashion.

    Once the mechanical assembly was finished, the team decided how to route the pneumatic hoses from the control valves to the air cylinders.  They needed to consider where the hoses should be, so they don’t interfere with the necessary motion of the arm.

    Once they finished building the functioning arm, they  needed to work as a team to optimize how they will operate the arm to successfully maneuver the payload (sponges) to the target positions (getting three in a row in any direction) in a 3-by-3 egg carton.

    Event organizers include the following:

    ASME Student Chapter President and Lead FLAME Planner: Samantha Hoover
    ASME Student Chapter Members/Day long volunteers: Jessica Jefferson, Katherine Haim, Tino Krastev, Matthew Shales, Jake Dregne, Ryan L’Hote, Sam Wilshire, and Cody Behselich

    SWE Student Chapter Outreach Officer and SWE event lead: Katie Ashley
    SWE Student Chapter Members/Panel Volunteers:  Alaina Jante Hazel-Melanie Ringpis,Nicole Weise ,Sam Soeder, Ashleigh Gimenez, and Kelsey Crank
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  • Jobs Rated Report: 10 Best jobs in Engineering

    Salary and job prospects are two of the categories CareerCast.com uses to grade and rank careers, so it should come as no surprise that the 10 Best Jobs in Engineering rank in the top 72 overall across all industries and titles evaluated for 2018.

    Careers in engineering offer some of the most promising opportunities in the American labor market according to the findings of the National Center for Education Statistics report “The Condition of Education 2018.”  This report finds that the three most financially lucrative fields of study for bachelor’s degree recipients ages 25-to-29 are Electrical Engineering ($74,790); Mechanical Engineering ($71,860); and other Engineering disciplines ($65,480).

    The same report also found that some of the lowest unemployment rates among recent graduates were engineering students.  Electrical Engineering was 3.3%, assorted other Engineering disciplines 2.3%, and Mechanical Engineering 1.9%.  CareerCast.com tracks the 10 Best Jobs in Engineering in its annual Jobs Rated Report and virtually all engineering careers have positive growth outlook, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts.

    Mechanical Engineer made it to rank number 6 among the 10 Best Jobs in Engineering with an annual median salary of $85,880 and a projected job growth rate (by 2026) of 9%. The ASME Job Board + Career Center offers many helpful tools and career resources all geared to help you with your job hunt, industry research and reports, resume writing, networking, interviewing and much more.

    Reprinted by permission from CareerCast.com, © 2018 Adicio Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Marketing of Engineering Consultancy Services: A Global Perspective

    As the global economy and society undergoes a tectonic shift to post-industrial information society with knowledge capital as its new resource, marketing of services is concurrently experiencing a paradigm shift. This book is a unique blend of the authors’ decades of experience in the engineering consultancy service industry, combined with scholarly and academic excellence.


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  • ACCELERATE YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT! SPRING 2019 COURSE CALENDAR NOW AVAILABLE

    ASME Learning & Development (L&D) provides premier learning solutions on the many critical ASME Codes and Standards covering multiple technologies and disciplines, ranging from fundamental to advanced levels. Code courses are developed and presented by respected industry experts who understand and can communicate code and standard relevance and their impact on safety, quality and integrity. Take advantage of ASME L&D Continuing Education Solutions for Engineering Professionals. Be sure to check out our new L&D L&D Spring Course Calendar to register.
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  • ASME Hosts Congressional Briefing Highlighting Advances in Bioengineering

    ASME recently hosted a congressional briefing on Bioengineering: A New Frontier in American Manufacturing. The event featured keynote speaker Dean Kamen, Executive Director of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI)/BioFabUSA, a Manufacturing USA institute focused on regenerative medicine. Kamen designed several major innovative technologies in the bioengineering sector, including the first portable insulin pump, the iBot all-terrain wheelchair, and the Segway.


    Kamen kicked off the briefing with the analogy, “science is a goldmine, engineering is how you get it out of the ground and make it valuable.” He discussed the mission of ARMI, explaining that it filled a role nobody else was tackling by focusing on engineering and scale, rather than basic research. Kamen explained that the future of biomanufacturing is the manufacturing of organs such as kidneys to replace those no longer functioning, rather than chronically treating them. This will save the government a lot of money, and have a correspondingly immeasurable impact on the cost of healthcare for all Americans. Looking to the future, Dean stated he hopes to turn Manchester, New Hampshire—where ARMI is located, along with several other biomanufacturing and advanced manufacturing companies such as Kamen’s other company DEKA Research and Development—into an “east coast version of Silicon Valley for organ reproduction,” and “transition to a world where regenerative organs are as common as vaccines.”
     
    (Left to right) ASME Executive Director Thomas Costabile, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and ASME President Said Jahanmir at the June 14th briefing. Sen. Shaheen was one of the speakers at the event.

    Following Kamen’s presentation, Senator Shaheen provided remarks, expressing her excitement that the Department of Defense (DOD) played an integral part in helping ARMI get off the ground, further noting that DOD is a key player in advancing new technologies. The innovative new technologies ARMI is developing have immeasurable potential, including the ability to bring relief to patients on the organ donor list. These technologies also reinforce the major impact that science has on daily life, and the need to continue supporting our science agencies. Senator Shaheen also touched on the dearth of qualified scientists moving into the bioengineering field, explaining that the University of New Hampshire system is closely engaged with ARMI, but more must be done to encourage young people to pursue bioengineering. In closing, she conceded that the current costs of higher education are a barrier to prospective students.
     
    Following the Senators remarks, Michael Golway, President and CEO of Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, discussed some of the groundbreaking technology his company is working on. Advanced Solutions is a biomanufacturing company with locations all over the country, including their newest location with ARMI in Manchester, NH. He explained that the work of Advanced Solutions is a “very small piece of the big puzzle” Kamen discussed in his keynote address. Golway shared several videos with the audience of the BioAssemblyBot (BABs), a 3D bioassembly technology platform that is also the world’s first human tissue printer. He explained that BABs moves like an arm and can also control workflow. Additional tools can also be attached to the arm for further functional variation.  In addition to BABs, Advanced Solutions is working on Patented Angiomics, a technology they have developed in conjunction with ARMI that harvests blood vessels from fat cell tissues, which then undergoes new angiogenesis.
     
    ASME President Said Jahanmir (right) introduces panelists Jennifer Hagan-Dier (left), director of the Tennessee Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and Michael Golway, president and CEO of Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, at the briefing on Capitol Hill.

    Rounding out the speaker panel was Jennifer Hagan-Dier, Director of the Tennessee Manufacturing Extension Partnership. She explained that the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) is a public-private partnership with centers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. It is dedicated to providing small and medium-sized manufacturers with the support they need to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, create new products and find new markets. The program is dedicated to bolstering the state of American manufacturing, as the investment in research and development from a manufacturing perspective has decreased significantly. Hagan-Dier further noted that what is frequently happening now in manufacturing is that products are being invented by American manufacturers, but the actual manufacturing is taking place somewhere else. One of the core missions of the MEP is to change this and revert to an “Invent Here, Manufacture Here” model once more.
     
    For more information on the work of ARMI, click here
     
    For more information on the work of Advanced Solutions, click here
     
    For more information on the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, click here

     
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  • Post your Resume on the ASME Job Board + Career Center today!

    Upload your resume or multiple resumes and be able to apply to jobs with a single click by selecting the resume of your choice.

    ASME Career Center has enhanced its resume and apply process by enabling job seekers like you the ability to keep multiple resumes within your account.

    As you apply to a job, simply select the targeted resume, click apply and you’ve completed the process already.

    This new enhancement is designed to quicken the resume submission process and allow you to apply to different jobs via your phone without having to start from scratch on each job.

    Simply sign into your account, create and/or upload your tailored resumes to start the process.

    Take advantage of this feature today to save time and simplify your job seeking experience.



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  • Pipeline Pumping and Compression Systems: A Practical Approach, Third Edition

     This comprehensive professional reference has been substantially revised and updated for the third edition. It is both a training tool and reference text covering all aspects of pipeline pumping and compression system design, configuration, and operation, in addition to the dynamic behavior of all the elements in each system.

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  • Silver Nanoparticles: Properties, Synthesis Techniques, Characterizations, Antibacterial and Anticancer Studies


    This monograph introduces historical background of silver and narrates exhaustive literature review conducted during the research. It gives details about the existing physical, chemical and biological approaches.

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  • ASME Company Store at Lands' End

    Welcome to the ASME Company Store at Lands' End - your one-stop shop for all ASME branded merchandise.

    Trust Land’s End Business Outfitters to deliver top-quality custom ASME logo clothing and promotional products that are perfect for both home and work. Share your pride in being part of ASME's worldwide community while enjoying the exceptional value of merchandise from Lands' End, all fully guaranteed.

    Whether you need the ASME Logo on T-Shirts for your upcoming football game or on Baseball caps for your next tailgating event, the ASME Company Store is here to help.

    Select from a wide variety of items, from T-shirts, to polos to hats and drinking cups.  Create your user name and password today and start shopping, it’s that easy.

    The ASME Company Store is open online 24/7 conveniently assessable whether you are sitting in the office or you are on the go.  You can shop from anywhere, any time.  If you need to speak to a Land’s End customer care specialist, please call 1-800-587-1541, Monday to Friday from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM CT.
     
    Looks do matter, show your pride and get your ASME swag on.  Shop for apparel and other interesting promotional items for your family, friends, soccer team, little league or book club.  No matter what team or group you belong to show the world that you are a proud ASME member spreading the word about the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.  Show off your affiliation to the larger ASME community.
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  • Primer on Engineering Standards

     Primer on Engineering Standards: Expanded Textbook Edition delves into standards creation and compliance to provide students and engineers with a comprehensive reference.



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  • ASME AND AICHE PARTNER HOST BRIEFING ON STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S MANUFACTURING HEARTLAND

    As the lead institute of the Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing USA Institute, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Executive Director June Wispelwey opened the briefing by highlighting not only the importance of the RAPID Institute’s investment in advancing breakthrough technologies to boost domestic energy productivity by 20 percent in five years through manufacturing processes, but also in the Manufacturing USA program as a whole.
    ASME Legislative Fellow Andy Bicos in the Office of Congressman Tom Reed moderated the event, introducing the following panelists:
    • Karen Fletcher, Chief Executive Officer, Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Institute
    • Billy Bardin, Global Operations Technology Director, The Dow Chemical Company
    • Mark Gaalswyk, Founder and Chairman, Easy Energy Systems
    • Thomas Hedberg, Project Manager, Digital Thread for Smart Manufacturing & Co-leader, Smart Manufacturing Systems Test Bed, National Institutes of Standards and Technology (Invited)
    • T. Bond Calloway, Associate Laboratory Director, Savannah River National Laboratory & AIChE President
    The above panelists spoke to how innovative technologies are investments in the future of American manufacturing and America’s heartland, where the decline of good-paying manufacturing jobs has hit hardest. They stressed that when businesses of all sizes from across the country work together on early-stage, pre-competitive research, they overcome their toughest technology challenges and accelerate impact.
    Each speaker touched upon the importance of working in partnership with academia and government as such ventures unleash manufacturing efficiency and energy savings, streamline readiness and supply, improve flexibility, set standards and develop our workforce.
    A number of public-private partnerships, including Manufacturing USA, are convening companies, universities, industrial research organizations, and national laboratories to accelerate new technologies that increase U.S. competitiveness and secure America’s future. Products including modular process intensification, smart manufacturing, and robotics  are being made using advanced manufacturing technologies and see impacts in a broad range of industries, including chemicals, oil and gas, composites, textiles, food, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, and more. As these advances in manufacturing continue to enable innovations in other fields, stakeholders are beginning the critical next step of developing and standardizing manufacturing best practices across industries.
    Please check back at the House Manufacturing Caucus’ website to view the recording once it has been posted.
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  • ASME Press: New Books Printed

    Originally part of a large reference book, Various and Ingenious Machines, published by Brill in the UK, the two smaller books below are inexpensive adaptations of the larger book, both authored by Bryan Lawton.


    Early Power and Transport (2017) Volume 1

    Download book front matter







    Early Mining and Metalworking (2017) Volume 2

    Download book front matter

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  • Advance the Bioengineering Community

    Gain access to free tools and resources from AABME, an initiative designed to stimulate biomedical innovation by bringing together and providing resources to the biomedical engineering community.

      

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