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NOTE: The following Tutorials and Workshop have been canceled due to low enrollment. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Tutorial 2: Product Intelligence: Decision Support and Execution for the Product Lifecycle Tutorial 3: Mesh-free Analysis and Optimization with Distances Tutorial 5: Introduction to Transdisciplinary Design and Process: Fundamental Concepts, Application Strategies, and Industrial Examples Tutorial 6: Design of Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Sensors Tutorial 7: Planar, Rigid-Body Mechanism Synthesis Using Geometric Constraint Programming Workshop 1: State-of-the-Art and Future Instructional and Research Directions in Compliant Mechanism Theory and Design Biotech/Pharma Early Career Forum (BIO) For design engineers interested in career opportunities in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Click here for full details.

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The 2006 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information In Engineering Conference will be held at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel, located just four blocks from the center of Philadephia's center city. It just 15 minutes from Philadelphia International Airport and is near all of the city's attractions, including exceptional museums, galleries, the Liberty Bell Pavilion, the Independence Hall, world-class entertainment and restaurants.

The IDETC/CIE conference consists of several conferences and symposia sponsored by the technical committees within the Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division of the ASME. The participating conferences are listed below.

• 32nd Design Automation Conference (DAC)
  Conference Chair: Hae Chang Gea, Rutgers University; Program Chair: Timothy W. Simpson, Penn State University
• 18th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM)
  Conference Chair: John K. Gershenson, Michigan Technological University; Program Chair: Robert B. Stone, University of Missouri, Rolla
• 11th Design for Manufacturing Conference (DFMLC)
  Conference Chair: William Wood, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Program Chair: Darek Ceglarek, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 26th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE)
  Conference Chair: Imre Horvath, Delft University of Technology; Program Chair: Chris Paredis, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 30th Mechanisms & Robotics Conference (MR)
  Conference Chair: Gordon R. Pennock, Purdue University; Program Chair: Stephen L. Canfield, Tennessee Tech University
• 3rd Symposium on International Design and Design Education (DEC)
  Symposium Chair: Philip E. Doepker, University of Dayton

Papers and presentations on various topics of engineering design are solicited for the conference. Please refer to the individual call for papers for each conference to review specific topics. The conference will include plenary sessions, keynote lectures, and tutorials on topics related to engineering design. Industry participation is particularly welcome; indeed, we hope the conference will provide opportunities for fruitful communication between the research and industrial communities.

We welcome you to Philadelphia in September, 2006.

Vijay Kumar
University of Pennsylvania
General Conference Chair