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Revision as of 11:11, 19 March 2008
Welcome to the draft of the 2008 issue of the ASME Design Engineering Division Newsletter. DED contributors can add or edit material by scrolling down to the appropriate section and clicking the edit link. The first time you edit, you will be asked to log in by entering a username (use "Firstname Lastname") and making up a password. Contributors may wish to reference the wiki edition of the ASME Design Engineering Division Newsletter 2007.
DED Executive
Message from the Chair
Kazem Kazeronian, Design Engineering Division Chair
2008 update needed (~800 words)
Message from the Past Chair
Judy Vance, Immediate Past DED Chair
2008 update needed (~700 words)
Conference Reports
IDETC/CIE 2007 Report
H-S Tzou, 2007 IDETC/CIE General Conference Chair
2007 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, September 4-7, 2007
The 2007 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE07) (http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC07/) have established a number of new records in the DED’s history. It was the largest ever, in terms of the number of conferences, abstracts received (1,700+), papers accepted (1,223), people attended (≈1,450), revenue generated (>200k or 34%), etc. The 2007 IDETC/CIE consisted of thirteen conferences: 1) 21st Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), 2) 27th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), 3) 2007 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07), 4) 6th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC), 5) 33rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), 6) 10th ASME International Power Transmission and Gearing Conference (PTG), 7)19th Reliability, Stress Analysis, and Failure Prevention Conference (RSAFP), 8) 31st Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MECH), 9) 1st International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS), 10) 4th Symposium on International Design and Design Education (DEC), 11) 19th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM), 12) 12th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC), and 13) 9th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle and Tire Technologies (AVTT). There were 12 conference keynote lectures, 10 tutorials/workshops and a general conference welcome keynote lecture entitled “Shaking the Money Tree - Funding at NSF” reported by three NSF Program Directors (Dr. S. Jayasuriya, Dr. E. Misawa and Dr. J.M. Vance). In addition, IDETC/CIE07 offered two receptions: 1) the Deans’ reception on UNLV campus (sponsored by two deans: Dr. Tom Lester, University of Kentucky and Dr. Eric Sandgren, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and 2) the IDETC/CIE Conference Reception at Rio and a number of division/conference/committee award dinners at Caesars Palace. Again, the IDETC/CIE General and Program Chairs (H.S. Tzou and Nader Jalili) would like to express their sincerest thanks to all conference and symposium organizers, technical committee chairs, authors, reviewers, student participants, ASME staffs (especially Erin Dolan and Christina Perakis), as well as various advisory and international committee members involved in this historic event held in Las Vegas on September 04-07, 2007.
Horn-Sen (H.S.) Tzou, General Conference Chair University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Nader Jalili, Technical Program Chair Clemson University, Clemson, SC http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC07/ChairsMessage.cfm
IDETC/CIE 2008
Souran Manoochehri, 2008 IDETC/CIE General Conference Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
IDETC/CIE 2009 Announcement and Call for Papers
George Flowers, 2009 IDETC/CIE General Conference Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
- 35th Design Automation Conference (DAC)
- 33rd Annual Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR)
- 29th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE)
- 21st International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM)
- 14th Design for Manufacturing and the Lifecycle Conference (DFMLC)
- 6th Symposium on International Design and Design Education (DEC)
National Manufacturing Week 2008
Zissimos Mourelatos, National Design Engineering Conference Committee Chair
National Manufacturing Week 2008 • Zissimos P. Mourelatos, National Design Engineering Conference Committee Chair
The 2008 National Manufacturing Week (NMW) technical conference and show will be held in Rosemont, IL (September 22-25, 2008). It is sponsored by Canon Communications, LLC. ASME contributed a total of 7 technical sessions to the 2007 NMW. The Design Engineering Division sponsored 4 of these sessions. Each session involved a workshop or presentation relevant to industrial participants. Based on an agreement between ASME and Canon Communications LLC, the latter distributes revenues to ASME and its divisions, based on organized sessions and attendance. According to a new agreement starting in 2008, the ASME ME magazine becomes the primary contact with Canon, and there would be no revenue share with the ASME participating divisions. Because of these changes and the lack of financial return to ASME, the DED Executive Committee decided in its March 2008 meeting, to discontinue DED participation in the NMW. Despite this development, the Design Engineering Division encourages members to develop presentations for the NMW 2008. The chance to address the NMW audience of practicing engineers, technical and mid-managers, and shop floor and plant supervisors, is a great opportunity. This group represents a major portion of ASME’s membership base, and as an organization we have an incentive to facilitate professional growth. Appropriate presentations may offer real, practical solutions to everyday design, manufacturing and management problems, providing ways to reduce cost and increase productivity, improve quality and reliability, make money faster and more efficiently, and provide avenues to grow professionally. More information can be found in www.ManufacturingWeek.com.
Journal Activity Reports
The Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
Subhash C. Sinha, JCND Editor
The Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (JCND) is a quarterly journal that provides a forum for the exchange of new ideas and applications in computational rigid and flexible multi-body system dynamics and all aspects (analytical, numerical and experimental) of dynamics associated with nonlinear systems. Toward the end of last year, Professor Henryk Flashner of the University of Southern California started his three year term as an Associate Editor of the JCND. His expertise will be utilized in the areas of ‘stability and bifurcation of dynamic systems’ and ‘control of nonlinear and time-varying systems’. Professors J. A. Tenreiro machado of the University of Porto, Portugal and Albert Luo of the University of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville edited a special issue of JCND on ‘Discontinuous and Fractional Dynamical Systems.’ It is scheduled for the April 2008 issue of the JCND.
I encourage you to choose JCND as the medium of dissemination of your research if it falls within the scope of the Journal. All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the ‘journal tool’ of ASME. Please take a look at the journal web site http://journaltool.asme.org/Content/JournalDescriptions.cfm?journalId=21&Journal=CND . All of us associated with the JCND are committed to a fair and rapid review process. And, please contact me directly if you have any comments or suggestions.
Subhash C. Sinha, Editor Email: ssinha@eng.auburn.edu
The Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering
Jami J. Shah, JCISE Editor
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
The Journal of Mechanical Design
Panos Papalambros, JMD Editor
In January 2008 we transitioned to a new Editor for the Journal of Mechanical Design. In November 2007 the ASME Publications Committee approved my nomination submitted by the then Editor Michael McCarthy and the Executive Committee of the Design Engineering Division. The transition is now complete, although with several hundred papers in the review and production stream some coordination is still necessary, hopefully most of it transparent to the authors. Mike has done an exceptional job in his editorial duties and has set a high mark of selfless performance. All of us in the community are grateful to him.
It is not a coincidence that a new ASME journal, the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR), was also approved by the ASME Publications Committee in November 2007, with Mike McCarthy appointed as the first Editor. The new journal will appear in 2008 and will accommodate some topics traditionally served by JMD, and thus offer JMD more space to be both more inclusive and more focused. We will be working together with Mike to maintain journal excellence and quality service to the design community at large.
This is an exciting and challenging time for mechanical engineering, for design, and for JMD. While the relevance of our traditional areas remains strong, emerging areas of inquiry are claiming our attention increasingly and even urgently: “smart” and networked content, environmental impact, micro- and nano-level operation, bio-linked applications, energy sources and use, user interactions, market, economic, and policy implications of design decisions —to name a few. Mechanical engineering design is at the intersection of all these areas, and so also at a crossroads. I expect that JMD will be evolving in the years to come, following the solutions that our community offers to the emerging challenges armed with the rigorous, scholarly treatment that has always characterized JMD publications. I am grateful and honored to have the opportunity to serve the journal at this time, and I am particularly grateful to our dedicated associate editors, who are really making JMD the successful journal that it is.
The Journal of Medical Devices
Arthur G. Erdman, JMeD Co-Editor
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
The Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics
Kon-Well Wang, JVA Editor
During the past year, Bogdan Epureanu (University of Michigan), Alan Palazzolo (Texas A&M University), Massimo Ruzzene (Georgia Tech), Steven Shaw (Michigan State University), and Weidong Zhu (University of Maryland Baltimore County) were nominated and approved as new Associate Editors (AEs). With these new AEs’ help, we are reducing the current AEs’ workload and improving the paper handling/review time. In addition, William Clark, Karl Grosh, Jean-Claude Golinval, and Sotirios Natsiavas were reappointed to their second term as AEs in 2007.
To solicit high quality papers, the Journal has contacted the symposia organizers of the 2007 ASME Biennial Conference of Mechanical Vibration and Noise, asking them to recommend the best papers in their symposium and invite the authors to submit an enhanced version of their papers to the Journal. The manuscripts will still go through a rigorous journal quality review process. We have received good responses with our invitations.
A special issue on the subject of vibration-based structural health monitoring, with Guest Editors Bogdan Epureanu (University of Michigan) and Mark Derriso (Air Force Research Labs), has been completed and published in December 2007.
I would like to encourage you to submit your research papers in vibration and acoustics to JVA. I also want to take this opportunity to thank all the authors, reviewers, associate editors and staff members who have contributed to make the past year another good one for JVA. Please feel free to contact me regarding any issues related to the Journal. I always welcome ideas and suggestions.
Prepared by: Kon-Well Wang, JVA Editor Penn State University March, 2008
Committee Reports
Fellows Nominating Committee
Richard A. Hirsch, P.E., Fellows Nominating Committee Chair
During the past year eight members of our Division have been elected to the Fellow Grade of membership. They are: David M. Anderson Alejander R. Diaz Imtiaz-Ul Haque John S. Lamancue Robert G. Parker Vadim Shapiro Henry J. Sommer Hong-Sei Yan Congratulations to these members and special thanks to their sponsors and supporters. Since an ASME member can not apply for this distinguished grade of membership, a colleague must take the time to complete the required application and arrange for letters of support. It is not a difficult task but it does take some time. However, if we don’t take the time to do this, who will? The necessary forms and instructions can be found on the ASME website. The applications are now being reviewed four times per year, the deadlines are 3/20, 6/20, 9/20, and 12/20. The latest rules are that the application must be no more than 25 pages and should include no more than 10 significant publications. Anyone requiring assistance or having questions can contact me at hirschr@asme.org.
Richard A. Hirsch, P.E.
Chair, Fellows Nomination Committee
Design Automation Committee
Timothy Simpson, DAC Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Design Education Committee
Philip Doepker, DEC Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Design for Manufacturing Committee
Jeffrey Herrmann, DFM Committee Chair
The primary activity of the Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Technical Committee is organizing the Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle (DFMLC) Conference at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference. In recent years, the conference organizers have worked to increase the scope of the papers presented at the conference, especially in the areas of design for the environment and other life cycle concerns. Edward Morse (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Peter Sandborn (University of Maryland) organized the 2007 DFMLC conference. Fifty-two papers were submitted, and thirty-two were accepted. Vijay Srinivasan, an expert from IBM on product lifecycle management, was the plenary speaker. The DFM Technical Committee had an official meeting and an informal lunch during the meeting in Las Vegas. For the 2008 DFMLC conference in New York, Peter Sandborn will be the conference chair and Marcos Esterman (Rochester Institute for Technology) will b! e the papers chair.
The committee officers for 2007-2008 are Jeffrey W. Herrmann (Chair), Edward P. Morse (Vice-Chair), and Kazu Saitou (Secretary). The following persons are representing the DFM community as Associate Editors for ASME journals: Jeffrey W. Herrmann is an Associate Editor (Design for Manufacturing) for the Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD); and Satyandra K. Gupta is an Associate Editor (Computer Aided Product Development) for the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE). For more information, please contact Jeffrey W. Herrmann at 301-405-5433 or jwh2@umd.edu.
Design Theory and Methodology Committee
Michael J. Scott, DTM Committee Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Fastening and Joining Committee
Endel V. Iarve, F&J Committee Chair
The Fastening and Joining Technical Committee of Design Engineering Division serves ASME members and others who are interested in novel developments related to fastening, welding and adhesive joining of polymeric, metallic, ceramic and other advanced materials and structures. Particular areas of interest include design and manufacturing, cost-effective and rapid joining methods, nano technology and innovations in adhesive bonding, dynamic behavior and long term durability of joined structures, nondestructive evaluation and characterization, industrial applications and case studies as well as many others. The committee sponsors symposiums with a specific theme at the annual International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. The theme for the 2008 IMECE in Boston, Massachusetts is “Joining Technologies for Advanced Materials and Structures” The organizers for this symposium are Dr. Endel V. Iarve, Dr. Thomas J. Whitney of The University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton OH and Dr. Timothy Breitzman, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB OH. The committee currently has about 12 active members and welcomes experts and distinguished researchers from industrial and academic fields to participate in the activities of the committee. If you are interested in joining the committee or need further information, please contact the Committee Chair: Dr. Endel Iarve, University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton OH 45469-0060, phone (937) 255-9094; fax (937) 258-8075; e-mail: endel.iarve@wpafb.af.mil
Endel V. Iarve
Mechanisms and Robotics Committee
Vijay Kumar, M&R Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Committee
Kurt Anderson, MSND Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Power Transmission and Gearing Committee
Ahmet Kahraman, PTG Committee Chair
The Power Transmission and Gearing (PTG) Committee organized the 10th International ASME Power Transmission and Gearing Conference that was held as part of the 2007 IDETC in Las Vegas. A total of 116 papers were presented in 24 technical sessions by researchers from more than 20 countries on their research. Various aspects of power transmission and gearing were covered, including the topics of gear design and analysis, gear strength and durability, gear dynamics and noise, gear manufacturing, gear tribology, lubrication, engineered surfaces and efficiency, transmissions, and other transmission components . The Buckingham Lecture was given by Mr. William Bradley of American Gear Manufacturers Association. ASME PTG Darle W. Dudley Award was present to Professor Donald R. Houser of the Ohio State University at the PTG Conference dinner. Darle W. Dudley Award is given once every four years as part of the International PTG Conference to honor a prominent power transmission and gearing researcher for his or her outstanding contributions to the field. The PTG Committee congratulates Dr. Houser for receiving this prestigious award.
The PTG Committee will meet in April 2008 in Detroit to work on several scheduled committee tasks, Among them, the Committee is planning to organize the next PTG Conference as part the 2009 IDETC. For more information on the PTG Committee and its forthcoming activities, please contact Dr. Ahmet Kahraman, kahraman.1@osu.edu or visit http://www.asmeptg.org/.
Ahmet Kahraman
PTG Committee Chair
Reliability, Stress Analysis, and Failure Prevention Technical Committee
Erol Sancaktar, RSAFP Committee Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Vehicle Design Committee
Corina Sandu, VDC Vice-Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Vibration and Sound Committee
George T. Flowers, TCVS Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Honors and Awards
Georges Fadel, H&A Committee Chair
Honors and Awards • Joseph K. Davidson, H&A Committee Chair and Georges M. Fadel, incoming H&A Committee Chair The following people received ASME Society Awards at the 2007 IDETC: Dr. Steven Velinski, University of California, Davis, Machine Design Award “for research contributions in the mechanical design field, including applied work on the development of machine elements and robotic systems for highway operations; and for professional leadership with ASME’s Design Engineering Division and Systems & Design Group;” and Dr. Panos Y. Papalambros, University of Michigan, Ruth & Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award for “significant contributions in establishing engineering design as a recognized discipline, advocating and propagating mathematical optimization as a practical design and product-development method, and integrating classical engineering intuition and modern analysis in team-oriented, open-ended design education .” As we look forward to 2009, the DED H&A Committee asks that you identify a qualified candidate for an award and submit a nomination. The deadline for receipt of nomination materials is January 15 for the Spira and Machine Design Awards, and March 1 for the other awards; it is helpful in planning when a potential nominator gives some early notice about a nomination to the Chair of the DED H&A Committee. The ASME Society Awards include the Machine Design Award and the Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award. Division Awards include the Robert E. Abbot, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Ralph Barnett-Carl Uzgiris Awards. In addition, there are several Division-Committee awards that are administered by the different technical committees within the DED. Information about these awards, and greater detail about the above-listed ones, is available within the ASME website, along with the nominating procedures and forms. For something specific, please feel free to contact Georges Fadel at fgeorge@clemson.edu or at (864)656-5620.
Student Affairs Committee
Matt Parkinson, SA Committee Chair
2008 update needed (200-300 words)
Systems and Design Group Committee
Kenneth Waldron, S&D Chair
Technical Communities Reorganize The Technical Communities Operating Board is completing a reorganization that puts infrastructure in place to replace many of the functions of the old Council on Engineering that have been uncovered in the three or so years since the Society moved to its current configuration. The new structure includes a set of operating boards and committees to cover functions important tot our divisions like journals, conferences and honors and awards. Further, the ASME Publications Committee, Conferences Committee, and Congress Steering Committee are being moved from the Programs and Activities Operating Board to the Technical Communities Operating Board. What this means is that the volunteer functions with which our divisions are most concerned will be accountable to the same operating board as the technical groups. If the above seems confusing, remember that under the “new” organization the divisions are organized into groups. The Design Engineering Division is in the Systems and Design Group that I currently lead. The groups are organized under the Technical Communities Operating Board (TCOB). The chair of that operating board is Vice President Dan Segalman. The TCOB in turn, is one of several operating boards that come under Knowledge and Communities, led by Senior Vice President Rich Laudenat. Over the past three years it had become apparent that there was a weakness in the new organization at the group and Technical Communities levels. The divisions were largely cut loose to fend for themselves, and many important functions were not getting done. That is the motivation behind the current activity. My term as Technical Leader of the Systems and Design Group ends June 30th, 2008. My successor will be Joe Beaman, who was elected at the Operating Board meeting at Congress in Seattle. Two members-at-large of the Operating Board were also elected. They are Bharat Bhushan, who will be in his second term on the board, and Nejat Olgac. I wish them every success in the coming three years.
Publicity and Newsletter
Jeremy J. Michalek, P&N Committee Chair
The wiki edition of the 2008 ASME DED Newsletter is available again this year for DED members to add updates and additional information that did not fit into the print edition. Following the wiki spirit, all DED members with news to share are encouraged to contribute content to the wiki edition, which will remain as a living document for updates during the 2008-2009 year. Members can also sign up to receive email or RSS alerts when new information is posted. For more information, please visit http://ddl.me.cmu.edu/ddwiki/index.php/DED_Newsletter or contact the Committee Chair, Professor Jeremy Michalek, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; (412)268-3765; jmichalek@cmu.edu.
DED Executive Committee Roster
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Newsletter Editor:
Jeremy J. Michalek
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
P: (412)268-3765
F: (412)268-3348
jmichalek
cmu.edu
