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Engineering design is a multi-disciplinary continuous improvement process
involving both researchers and practicing engineers corporately to improve
and to facilitate the quality of living and ultimately to enrich human lives
and nature. The ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences
and Computers in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE) provide a premier international
forum that world-wide leading experts with various design background and experience
can effectively showcase and share their newest ideas, cutting-edge researches,
developing methodologies and/or tools, etc. among their peers. On behalf of
the ASME Design Engineering Division and the Computers and Information in Engineering
Division, the IDETC/CIE General Chair (H.S. Tzou) and the Technical Program
Chair (Nader Jalili) would like to warmly welcome you to the 2007 ASME IDETC/CIE.
The 2007 IDETC/CIE consists of record-breaking thirteen conferences. Twelve
conferences are organized by various technical committees in the ASME Design
Engineering Division and the Computers and Information in Engineering Division.
One conference is corporately organized with IEEE. These thirteen technical
conferences are:
The 2007 IDETC/CIE initially received more than 1,700 abstracts (by February
20th) and accepted 1,439 abstracts among the thirteen conferences. The total
number of draft papers received was 1,409 and only 1,223 made the final technical
program. There are 12 specific conference keynote lectures and 10 tutorials/workshops
sponsored by various technical committees and conferences. In addition, a general
conference welcome keynote lecture entitled "Shaking the Money Tree -
Funding at NSF" reported by three NSF Program Directors (Dr. Suhada Jayasuriya
- Control Systems, Dr. Eduardo Misawa - Dynamical Systems, and Dr. Judy M.
Vance - Engineering Design of the NSF's Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing
Innovation Division) is scheduled at 7:45 AM Wednesday morning. Accordingly,
the Chairs proudly present a best-ever IDETC/CIE technical program to the design
engineering community in Las Vegas. Note that a successful program depends
on many dedicated conference chairs, program chairs, symposium organizers,
authors and reviewers. The Chairs would like to express their sincerest appreciation
to these people who make this landmark IDETC/CIE07 a reality.
In addition to the excellent technical program, IDETC/CIE07 will offer two
receptions respectively on Tuesday (9/4) and Wednesday (9/5) nights and division/conference/committee
award dinners on Thursday (9/6) evening. Two engineering deans: Dr. Tom Lester,
University of Kentucky (UK), and Dr. Eric Sandgren, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas (UNLV), will welcome all old and new friends and all participating students
at the Deans’ Reception on UNLV campus. The IDETC/CIE will host the second
reception at Rio and award dinners at Caesars Palace (Please refer to the final
program or web information for details.)
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. Without these leaders, advisors,
promoters, participants and facilitators, this record-setting IDETC/CIE is
not possible. Las Vegas is an exciting city to visit. Please come to enjoy
not only the excellent technical program, but also the dynamic city. See you
at the IDETC/CIE07, September 4-7, 2007.
Best wishes to an enjoyable conference experience.
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Horn-Sen (H.S.) Tzou
Conference Chair
University of Kentucky
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Nader Jalili
Program Chair
Clemson University |
To view the chair's messages for each conference, click on the conference names below. (All chair messages are in PDF format.)
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