Sunday, November 5

8:00am - 12:30pm Registration Fee Structure Early Career Forum: A Career Enhancement Program for the Engineer with 0-10 Years Experience Early Career Forum: Presentations & Panel Discussion Sponsored by ASME Center of Professional Development, Practice & Ethics/Committee on Early Career Development The Early Career Forum (ECF) is designed to provide early career engineers with firsthand "practical" advice and information on issues relevant to their careers through accounts of "real life" engineering experiences and success stories by senior engineers and managers in industry. While the ECF was developed for engineers with less than 10 years experience, engineering students are also welcome and find it a way to get exposure to the issues that they will face in the early stages of their careers. This year's one-day event consists of two presentations, a panel discussion in the morning and an engineering career fair in the afternoon. ECF's take place annually at the ASME Congress and through ASME section activities throughout the year. For more information about the ECF, please go to http://www.asme.org/Communities/EarlyCareer/Forum. 8:00am - 7:00pm *Competition begins at 1:00pm Student Design Competition Final Sponsored by the Boeing Company & The Student Design Competition Committee This annual design challenge invites student member teams of up to four students to design, construct and operate a prototype meeting the requirements of an annually determined problem statement. The 2006 design challenge requires participating students to design and demonstrate a device which can accurately and repeatedly cast a specified simulated fishing lure, and be operated orally by a quadriplegic with a "sip and puff" set of switches. Competitions take place at the district-level ASME Student Professional Development Conferences. Teams that place first at Student Conferences are invited to participate in an international competition held at ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE). 1:00pm - 5:00pm Early Career Forum: Engineering Career Fair Get expert advice and practical solutions for your career at the Early Career Forum: Engineering Career Fair. Industry representatives will be on hand to meet with you to discuss opportunities at their companies, new technologies, and interesting career paths. Meet recruiters from area graduate schools and other organizations that advocate engineering professionalism. Be sure to have your resumes and be ready to absorb all the different opportunities available to engineers to enhance your career. 2:00 PM - 5:15 PM Strategic Diversity: Envisioning the Future of Engineering This workshop, sponsored by the Center for Leadership & Diversity, will engage participants of different backgrounds, experiences, ages, gender and ethnicity, in an exercise of forward outlook into a successful future state of the Engineering Profession. The desired outcome of the workshop is the collective wisdom (Voice-of-the-Customer) of a diversely representative group of ASME members that provide a common vision and a common language to enhance the strategic direction of ASME. The workshop is open to all IMECE attendees at no charge.

Monday, November 6

7:00am - 8:00am ASME Leadership Roundtable Meeting You're invited! A special meeting for ASME volunteer leaders, members, and staff is scheduled for 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM, Monday, November 6, 2006. ASME President Terry Shoup will moderate an open discussion with ASME's Board of Governors, Sector Vice Presidents and governing board members, ASME members and ASME staff about the state of our Society, and opportunities and challenges in the coming year. Everyone interested in what ASME is doing and will be doing this year is invited to attend, and participate with questions. This will be an important opportunity for leaders and members to learn about the year ahead. Plan to attend--it will be a great way to start the week's events! 7:45am - 5:15pm Early Career Forum (Bonus Pack) Registration Fee Structure The Early Career Forum (Bonus Pack) includes five sessions; #1 Tools for Volunteerism & the Early Career Engineer, #2 Ethics & the Early Career Engineer, #3 Engineering Management, #4 The Innovation Agenda, and #5 Energy & Sustainability. The five sessions are designed to cover several areas of interest to early career engineers. Tools for Volunteerism & the Early Career Engineer will be a discussion on methods for early career engineers to get involved in giving back to their profession and/or by undertaking issues that improve the quality of life. It will be held in conjunction with members from Engineers Without Borders. Ethics & the Early Career Engineer will focus on past ethics incidents, how engineers have learned from them, and why ethics is so important to the engineering profession. Engineering Management will feature a discussion on early career engineers as managers and how to develop a career path that leads towards managing people and projects. The Innovation Agenda will feature panelists discussing American innovation and how it affects and relates to Global innovation. Energy & Sustainability session will comprise of a panel of alternative energy experts discussing methods to decrease America's increasing dependence on foreign oil. The bonus pack also includes admittance to the Early Career Forum taking place on Sunday, November 5 from 8:00pm - 5:00pm. 8:00am - 10:30am Department Heads Forum Sponsored by the Center for Education 8:30am - Noon VOLT Academy Training Speaker: Elaine Seat, PhD, PE Title: Tell Me True™ - How to Hear and Be Heard Developing good interpersonal skills is just like solving any other problem. Developed by a mechanical engineer, the Tell Me True™ system provides a structured method for self evaluation, change and coaching to maximize your interpersonal and performance skills. Agenda: 8:30am - 9:45am How engineers think and how others perceive them 9:45am - 11:00am Communication structures to get information from people and to get your ideas heard 11:00 am - 12:00pm Introduction to the Tell Me True™ course in personal improvement Please RSVP by October 30, 2006 to Marian Heller, hellerm@asme.org, (212) 591-7079. Include your name, leadership role, and Sector. There is no fee for ASME members to attend this event. 10:00am - 12:00pm Henry Robinson Towne Lecture Sponsored by the Management Division ASME.ORG Feedback Sessions Session 1 – 2:00 – 3:00 PM – Reserved for ASME Students Session 2 – 3:30 – 4:30 PM – Reserved for Early Career Engineers Join ASME staff in this 45 minute session to view new features and provide feedback on ASME.ORG. Space is limited to 20 people per session on a first come, first serve basis. Sign up at the ASME Pavilion on Sunday. 5:30pm - 7:00pm Opening Session & Keynote Address 7:00pm - 9:00pm Opening Reception

Tuesday, November 7

7:45am - 12:45pm Tips for Tenure and Promotion: A Symposium for New and Prospective Faculty Sponsored by the Center for Education Registration is free to all IMECE registrants. While there is no fee, registration is required to reserve your seat. Details are available at www.asme.org/Education/College/Tips_Tenure_Promotion.cfm Organizers: Joseph J. Rencis, Ph.D., P.E., ASME Fellow, University of Arkansas Mohammad N. Noori, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ASME.ORG Feedback Sessions Session 3 – 9:00 – 10:00 AM – Open Session Session 4 – 10:30 – 11:30 AM – Open Session Session 5 – 1:00 – 2:00 PM – Open Session Session 6 – 2:30 – 3:30 PM – Open Session Session 7 – 4:00 – 5:00 PM – Open Session Join ASME staff in this 45 minute session to view new features and provide feedback on ASME.ORG. Space is limited to 20 people per session on a first come, first serve basis. Sign up at the ASME Pavilion on Monday morning.

Wednesday, November 8

5:00pm - 8:00pm ASME Micro & Nano Society-Wide Forum Sponsored by Kknowledge & Communities and Institutes Sectors To showcase and recognize the outstanding contributions to the micro and nano fields that are being made throughout the Society including all ASME Divisions, Institutes, and Sectors - the K&C and Institutes Sectors will sponsor an "ASME Micro & Nano Society-Wide Forum" to be held on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at Congress from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM. Division leadership will be asked to select the best micro / nano challenges and opportunities in their area and present it during this special session that will be an outstanding knowledge exchange and networking session. Details to be announced on the Congress website and/or the ASME Nanotechnology Institute website (http://nano.asme.org). The session will be open to all interested Congress participants - For further information and corporate sponsorship opportunities in which an organization with a related product and/or service can educate ASME Members about their products please contact: Raj Manchanda, Director, Emerging Technologies at nano@asme.org.

Thursday, November 9

1:00pm – 2:00pm Fluids Engineering Division Freeman Lecture Sponsored by the Fluids Engineering Division Speaker: Dr. Promode R. Bandyopadehyay, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI Title: “Biorobotics: Implementing Swimming and Flying in Nature in to Engineering” 1:00pm - 2:30pm Dynamic Systems & Control Division Nyquist Lecture Sponsored by the Dynamic Systems & Control Division 3:15pm – 5:15pm NCA-8 Rayleigh Lecture Sponsored by the Noise Control and Acoustics Division Speaker: Donald Thompson 3:45pm – 5:15pm AMD-2D Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Sponsored by the Basic Enegineering Group Speaker: Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser, University of California, San Diego Title: Biomimetic Multifunctional Materials 5:15pm - 6:15pm Applied Mechanics Division Koiter Lecture Sponsored by the Applied Mechanics Division Speaker: Koiter Medalist