Wednesday, September 5, 2007 9:00 am - 10:30 am

6th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC)
MSNDC 20-1 (Plenary Lecture 1)

Location: Amazon I/J
Keynote Speaker: Werner Schiehlen, Professor Emeritus of the University of Stuttgart
Keynote Title: Recent Trends and Challenging Applications in Multibody System Dynamics
Session Chair: Olivier Bauchau, Georgia Institute of Technology

Werner Schiehlen is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Stuttgart where he worked for 25 years as Full Professor of Mechanics, Dean of Mechanical Engineering and Vice-President for Research. Since 2002 he serves as a Part-time Professor of Vehicle Dynamics at the University of Stuttgart. Prof. Schiehlen has published more than 300 scientific papers on multibody system dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, control theory and vibrations, mechatronics and vehicle engineering. His 6 books are partly translated in English, Chinese and Vietnamese language. Prof. Schiehlen is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal "Multibody System Dynamics" and associate editor for many more scientific journals. Prof. Schiehlen served as Secretary-General and President of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

Prof. Schiehlen received 1972 a fellowship as Research Associate with Marshall Space Flight Centre, Huntsville, Alabama. He was awarded 1991 Doctor honoris causa from the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 1995 he served as a Miller Visiting Professor with the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Schiehlen was elected 1997 as Foreign Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), New Dehli, India. In 2000 he was Charles E. Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. Since 2001 he is an Honorary Professor with the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China. In 2004 Prof. Schiehlen was elected as Honorary Member of the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) and in 2005 as Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Prof. Schiehlen was the winner of the European Solid Mechanics Prize 2006 presented at the 6th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Budapest, Hungary.

Abstract: The first part of the lecture presents trends in multibody dynamics evolved during the past decade. Multibody system dynamics is now acknowledged as an independent branch of theoretical, computational and applied mechanics around the globe. The research topics are discussed with respect to the subjects and countries dealing with multibody dynamics. Altogether seventeen topics and thirty-five countries are identified. The second part of the lecture reviews the state-of-the-art in modeling multibody systems with respect to the approaches and the principles used. The third part presents applications including vehicle models with rigid and flexible bodies, contact problems with computation of the coefficient of restitution which may be chaotic, the evaluation of the metabolical energy of walking humans and modeling of the human middle ear.

27th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE)
CIE 11-6 (Plenary Lecture)

Location: Amazon K/L/M
Keynote Speaker: Tom Lange, Procter & Gamble
Keynote Title: CAE Behind Everyday Products: Innovating How P&G Innovates

Tom Lange joined Procter & Gamble in May 1978, as a Product Technical Engineer. He has spent his 29 year P&G career modeling and simulating products, processes and production systems, from how the aerodynamics of a peanut affect roasting, to how baby size affects diaper leakage. He was recognized in 1994 with a PRISM award, P&G's highest technical recognition for Engineering. He is one of P&G's founding technologists for PowerFactor-a licensable Reliability Engineering Technology for repairable production systems. Tom was appointed Associate Director in 1998, becoming the first department head of the Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Department for Corporate Engineering. In August 2001 he was appointed head of P&G's CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) Organization. In September 2004, he was appointed Director of Modeling & Simulation for P&G in Corporate R&D, including CAE and Computational Chemistry Efforts. Mr. Lange received a BSChE from the University of Missouri in 1978.

Abstract: How can modeling & simulation greatly accelerate the pace of innovation? With Procter & Gamble making and selling billions of things every day, we will explore some of the 'surprising' technical challenges this presents ?from mixing tanks to Pantene? bottles, from Braun? shavers to Pringles?.. Other multi-scale, multi-physics examples and challenges will be discussed. Computing costs are projecting by 2010 to be 1/100th the cost they were at the start of this decade. What are we going to do with all that power? How are we going to engage more scientists, engineers and designers in using CAE in EVERY decision? How are going to manage all the simulation data for the long term? What are the emerging work processes that shape key decisions for the customers of CAE analysis?

1st International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS)
MNS 9-1 (Plenary Lecture)

Location: Jaguar
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kurt Petersen, CEO, SiTime, and Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Keynote Title: MEMS Resonators - Transforming the Timing Industry

Dr. Kurt Petersen is currently the CEO of SiTime and a Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his BS degree cum laude from UC Berkeley in 1970 and his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, both in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Petersen established a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) research group while at IBM Research from 1975 to 1982. Since 1982, Dr. Petersen has co-founded four silicon valley companies in MEMS technology, Transensory Devices Inc. in 1982, NovaSensor in 1985, Cepheid in 1996, and SiTime in 2004. All of these companies have become technical and commercial leaders in the field of MEMS devices and applications. NovaSensor is owned by General Electric. Cepheid is now a public company (Nasdaq: CPHD) selling advanced DNA diagnostic products, particularly to the US Postal Service for detecting anthrax in the US mail. Most recently, SiTime was established with the mission of commercializing MEMS-based resonators for timing products, and transforming a large fraction of the $3+B, 40-year-old quartz crystal marketplace.

Dr. Petersen has published over 100 papers, and has been granted over 35 patents in the field of MEMS. Dr. Petersen's 1982 paper "Silicon as a Mechanical Material," published in the IEEE Proceedings, remains a seminal publication that is still most frequently referenced in the field of micromachining and MEMS. He has won many honors, including an award for the "Year's Best R&D" from R&D Magazine, the "Best New Product of the Year" from Design News Magazine, and the "Best of Small Tech Award for Lifetime Achievement" from Small Times Magazine. In 2001, he was awarded the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal for his contributions to MEMS. Dr. Petersen is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the IEEE in recognition of his contributions to "the commercialization of MEMS technology."

2007 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA07)
MESA 9-1 (Plenary Lecture)

Location: Palma E/F
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Harry H. Cheng, Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California, Davis
Keynote Title: Embeddable Computing Engines for Mechatronic and Embedded Systems

Harry H. Cheng is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering and the Director of the Integration Engineering Laboratory at the University of California, Davis (http://iel.ucdavis.edu). He is the Chief Architect of an embeddable C/C++ interpreter Ch for script computing, which is being widely used in both academia and industry. Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Davis in 1992, he worked as a Senior Engineer on robotic automation systems at the Research and Development, United Parcel Service, Inc. from 1989 to 1992. He holds one U.S. patent and has published over 120 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. At UC Davis, he has established research programs in engineering software design, mobile agent systems, intelligent mechatronic and embedded systems, computer-aided design and manufacturing, robotics, and intelligent transportation systems funded by government agencies and industry. He is a co-founder of SoftIntegration, Inc. which provides infrastructure software and services for rapid application development and deployment. He received the M.S. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986 and 1989, respectively.

Dr. Cheng received a Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, the Procter and Gamble Best Paper Award as well as the Waldron Award at the Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conferences. He received an Outstanding Contribution Award from United Parcel Service, Inc. He participated in revision of the latest C standard called C99 through ANSI X3J11 and ISO S22/WG14 C Standard Committees. Several major new features in C99 for applications in engineering, such as complex numbers and variable length arrays, were based on his design and implementation of a C/C++ interpreter. He is a Fellow of ASME and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is on the Editorial Board of Computer Applications in Engineering Education and on the International Editorial Advisory Board of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering --- English Edition. He served as a Guest Editor for a special issue of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics focused on Intelligent Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and an Associate Editor of ASME Trans, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. He has presented tutorials on real-time Linux for control of mechatronic systems at the ASME IDETC. He was the Chair of the Technical Area of Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing and currently is the Co-Chair of Technical Area of Computers in Electromechanical Systems in the ASME Division of Computers and Information in Engineering. He is also the Chair of the Technical Committee on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in ITS of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. He was the Program Chair of the 2006 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications

Abstract: Modern mechatronic and embedded systems are increasingly becoming complex. However, most existing systems were designed with static and customized architectures, which are inflexible to operate and interact. In addition, many embedded systems such as network sensors have long life span. Once deployed, they may not be physically reachable. Hence, the reprogrammable ability is critical to intelligent mechatronic and embedded systems operating in a dynamically changing environment with uncertainty. Embeddable computing engines are ideal solutions to address this challenge. Mobile agent technology is emerging as a key concept in building highly distributed, autonomous, scalable, and collaborative intelligent mechatronic and embedded systems. It allows deployment and execution of mobile code dynamically in response to events unanticipated at the design stage. In this presentation, we will discuss the state-of-the-art of embeddable computing engines that provide the programmability for mechatronic and embedded systems. We will also present recent research advances, development challenges, and potential applications of embeddable computing engines and mobile agent technology for intelligent mechatronic and embedded systems.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007 10:45 am - 12:15 pm

21st Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB)
VIB 24-1 (Plenary Lecture)

Location: Amazon I/J
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel J. Inman, Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Center for Intelligent Material Systems & Structures, Virginia Tech
Keynote Title: Useful Vibrations

Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is the Director of the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures and the G.R. Goodson Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. Since 1980, he has published six books (on vibration, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 191 journal papers and 380 proceedings papers, given 36 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 44 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 65 MS degrees. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is currently Technical Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (1999- ) and Technical Editor of the journal Shock and Vibration (1999- ). He has served as Technical Editor of ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (1990-1999), Shock and Vibration Digest (1999-2006) and as Associate Editor for a number of other journals.

Abstract: Typically our community spends most of its effort analyzing ways to reduce unwanted vibrations. This lecture focuses on uses of the piezoelectric effect to harvest energy from ambient vibration and to perform structural health monitoring. Both fields use vibration to accomplish useful goals and both have enjoyed increased attention over the last decade. Harvesting of ambient vibration energy involves using a transducer and here the piezoelectric effect is used. Structural heath monitoring involves exciting the structure in a known way and measuring the response and again the focus here is on the use of the piezoelectric effect. Both of these disciplines involve combining mechanical fields with electrical fields though the piezoelectric constitutive laws. Last, the two concepts of harvesting and monitoring are combined to form a wireless monitoring system. The lecture will finish with a few philosophical comments on funding, enjoying academia and on the value of experimental work.

31st Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MECH)
MECH 10-1 (Plenary Lecture 1)

Location: Amazon K/L/M
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ashok Midha, Professor and Chair of Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla
Keynote Title: Compliant Mechanisms: Memory Lane, the Journey, and the Exciting Road Ahead

Dr. Ashok Midha has served since August 1997 as Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla. Earlier, he served as Professor of Mechanical Design in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University for fourteen years. Before joining Purdue, he taught briefly at Michigan Technological University, and for five years at The Pennsylvania State University. He has written numerous journal articles and actively consulted in mechanical design, kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms, rigid-body and compliant mechanisms design, and machine vibration. He has received several best paper, design, and college research awards. His more recent efforts have been devoted to design education and the development of a methodology for design of compliant mechanisms. An ASME Fellow, he has also received the ASME Mechanisms Committee Award for "Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Mechanism Theory and Design, and Valued Services in Advancing the Engineering Profession." He has been very active in the ASME Mechanisms Committee and has served as a Papers Review Chairman, and as an Associate Editor for its journal, Journal of Mechanisms, Transmissions, and Automation in Design (presently known as the Journal of Mechanical Design). Until 2005, he also served for many years as the Feature Editor for Mechanism and Machine Theory.

Abstract: As the area of compliant mechanism theory and design progresses toward maturity into the 21st century, and the interest in this exciting new thrust grows, one cannot help but reminisce about the humble beginnings of a formal generalized methodology, and vacillations between feelings of jubilation and frustration along the way. Novel applications and extensions to the theory are increasingly finding their way into products used in everyday life and higher technologies. Therefore, introspection at this juncture on a vision of the present and future research and education would be worthwhile. This talk will provide an informal overview of the origin, promising work in progress, and future challenges in compliant mechanism theory and design.

Thursday, September 6, 2007 8:30 am - 10:00 am

6th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC)
MSNDC 20-2 (Plenary Lecture 2)

Location: Amazon I/J
Keynote Speaker: Francis C. Moon, Joseph C. Ford Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University
Keynote Title: The Dynamics of Machines: from Kinematics to Chaos; A Historical Review and Future Prospects
Session Chair: Noel Perkins, University of Michigan

Professor Moon has been in the Cornell Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering since 1987, having served as its director during the period 1987-1992. He also served as the Chair of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics for seven years after joining Cornell in 1975. He was Assistant Professor at Princeton University in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from 1967-1974. He has published nearly 140 journal articles as well as 5 books and 3 edited books.

The hallmark of Moon's career has been the bridging of engineering mechanics with applied mathematics and applied physics through unique experiments. Nonlinear dynamics is a theme running through five of his books ranging from chaotic vibrations to superconducting levitation. He was one of the first to discover fractal structures in the dynamics of mechanical systems in the late 1970' s. Moon's laboratory gained world-wide recognition for its experimental work in nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory and culminated in two widely referenced books in chaos theory and experiment, one of which has been translated into Russian. [Chaotic Vibrations, 1987, 2004, Chaotic and Fractal Dynamics, 1992]. Another highly referenced area of research is magneto-mechanical dynamics especially related to fusion energy and superconducting levitation. Moon holds several patents in superconducting bearings. His early work in Mag-lev uncovered potential instabilities in levitated systems. In magnetic fusion engineering, experiments in the Moon Lab on superconducting structures in the late 1970's revealed magneto-elastic buckling instabilities in large magnet systems. These experiments were reproduced and the results verified in major fusion labs in Germany and Japan. Today several universities in China are carrying out research based on the problems defined in Moon's books Magneto-solid Mechanics (1984), Superconducting Levitation, 1994. His lab also worked on smart structures and elastic-linked robots. Nearly two-dozen Ph.D students and many international visitors and researchers came through Moon's laboratory at Cornell in the 25 years.

Francis Moon serves or has served on editorial boards of the journals, Royal S ociety of London -Philosophical Transactions, Chaos, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Nonlinear Dynamics and the International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics in Materials and was associate editor for Journal of Applied Mechanics (1982-1987). He was also the President of the Society of Engineering Science as well as the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM, 2000). He is a Fellow of ASME as well as AAM.

Abstract: As we enter the new age of robotic and intelligent machines, it is useful to review the historical role of dynamics in the invention and creation of machines. In this lecture we review the dynamical ideas, constructs and principles of importance to machine designers from the Greek mechanicians to Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance engineers and finally to the machine age of the kinematicist Franz Reuleaux 19th and machine dynamicists of the early 20th century. One of the themes of this lecture is the time lag between mathematical analysis in dynamics and its application to the design of machines. This was especially true in the 19th century that did not see significant use of applied dynamics until the early works of Timoshenko and other Russian mechanicians as well as Den Hartog. We also review the role of nonlinear dynamics and stability analysis in machines from Maxwell's analysis of steam engine regulators and early stability analyses of the first aircraft to the modern role of chaotic dynamics in understanding the origins of machine noise. As with the evolution of machine artifacts over many centuries, we propose an evolution model for the equations of motion for machine dynamics. Finally we look to the future of machine invention and the role of dynamics and control. We can see in the work of younger machine and robotics inventors' new mathematical techniques and algorithms that will change the way the dynamical aspects of machine design in the future are treated. These methods, in contrast to current ODE and PDE dynamical models, are based on optimization methodology, evolutionary computation theories in computer science and artificial intelligence, and promise to produce methods in which the machine of the future will be designed and produced by other new intelligent machine systems.

[This lecture is based in part on the Author's new book: The Machines of Leonardo da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux, as part of a new book series by Springer 2007 on the History of Machines and Mechanism Science. ]

33rd Design Automation Conference (DAC)
DAC 24-1 (Plenary Lecture)

Location: Amazon K/L/M
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Chris Unger, Chief Engineer for Imaging Subsystems, GE Healthcare (GEHC)
Keynote Title: Thermo-Mechanical Challenges in Diagnostic Imaging

Chris Unger is Chief Engineer for Imaging Subsystems within GE Healthcare (GEHC). He has degrees in Mathematics, Philisophy, and Physics from MIT and Boston University. Dr. Unger worked for Texas Instruments for 5 years in the Central Research group and Electro-Optics Division, working on Expert Systems, Materials Science, and IR systems. He has spent 18 years at GE Healthcare working software and systems. He currently manages the product planning process for GEHC, as well as the research programs for the XRay Sources, XR Detectors, and CT Detectors.

Abstract: Diagnostic Imaging has enabled a revolution in healthcare over the last thirty years, creating the ability to see anatomy non-invasively quickly and easily. Future trends include enabling non-invasive treatments and imaging physiological processes, not just anatomy, allowing early health prevention of disease, not just treatment. Each major revolution in imaging has been based on advances in material science, and current products are operating at the limits of materials thermal and mechanical performance. Therefore current products must simultaneously optimize the design of the products and components, and accurately model subtle interactions of effects. Several examples are given of the technical challenges and the modelling approaches taken to address those challenges.

Thursday, September 6, 2007 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

31st Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MECH)
MECH 10-2 (Plenary Lecture 2)

Location: Amazon I/J
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mohan Budduluri, Co-founder and Vice President, Restoration Robotics
Keynote Title: Image Guided Robotics: From Cancer Treatment to Hair Transplantation

Dr. Mohan Bodduluri is a co-founder and Vice President, Research and Development at Restoration Robotics. Restoration Robotics is currently developing a robotic system that automates hair transplantation procedure while improving the quality of the outcomes. Prior to Restoration Robotics, Dr. Bodduluri was Vice President, Engineering at Accuray. Accuray developed CyberKnife which performs stereotactic radiosurgery to treat cancerous tumors or other malformations anywhere in the body using image guided robotics. Dr. Bodduluri graduated with PhD from University of California at Irvine, MS from University of Pennsylvania, and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, all in Mechanical Engineering.

Abstract: Image guided robotics are increasingly taking an important role in medical procedures. Accuray developed CyberKnife that uses an off-the-shelf industrial robot to accurately track and treat a tumor anywhere in the body using high energy x-rays under image guidance. Currently, another company, Restoration Robotics, is developing a robotic system for hair transplantation that automatically harvests follicular units from the donor area and implants them in the recipient area. Personal experiences in developing robotic systems for cancer treatment and hair transplantation will be described in detail including technological challenges, safety concerns, and regulatory requirements.

10th ASME International Power Transmission and Gearing Conference (PTG)
PTG 8-1 (Plenary Lecture)

Location: Amazon K/L/M
Keynote Speaker: William A. Bradley III, Vice President, Technical Division (retired), American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA)
Keynote Title: International Standards, Testing, and Gears to Power the Future

Bill Bradley has recently retired as Vice President of the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) Technical Division, responsible for facilitating National and International standards development, technical meetings, seminars and Division operations. He is presently consulting within the gear industry from Longmont, CO. Bill's experiences include over four decades in the gear industry, with 24 years in manufacturing power transmission products. This work included design, testing, failure investigations, vibration, and gear noise generation. Involved in ISO standardization since 1979, he was Secretariat of ISO/TC 60 "Gears", a working group convener, administrator of the ANSI Technical Advisory Group to ISO for TC 60 and Gear Technical Committee member of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanics (IFToMM). Most recently, Bill has also been President of the Board of Directors for the Gear Research Institute of ASME and AGMA.

Abstract: Power for the future, primarily electric power, will demand the increased use of renewable energy sources. Of the possible sources, wind turbine power is the fastest growing, both in capacity and size of individual generating units. The incorporation of gear drives in wind turbine generating units requires their capability to withstand extremes of such items as load, environment, and vibration. Experience, established standards, and testing methods are among the items that need review and enhancement for the production of reliable gear drive designs. The standards development process, gear testing practice, and industry demands will be discussed with the objective - reliable gear drive designs for future industry demands.

Thursday, September 6, 2007 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

21st Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB) Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound Honorary Speaker
VIB Dinner

Location: Augustus 6 Ballroom, 4th Floor, Caesars Palace Hotel & Casino
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Fredric F. Ehrich, Gas Turbine Laboratory, MIT
Keynote Title: Looking Back to Our Origins - the First ASME Vibrations Conference/1967

Dr. Fredric F. Ehrich received his S.B. (1947), and Sc.D. (1951) degrees in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He spent 1947-1948 at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992, and is an ASME Fellow and a member of the GE Propulsion Hall of Fame. From 1951 to 1957 he worked for the Westinghouse Aircraft Gas Turbine Division in engineering research, analysis, design and development. From 1955-1956 he was Westinghouse's technical representative at Rolls Royce Aero Engines in Derby, England. From 1957 until his retirement in 1994, Dr. Ehrich was employed at GE Aircraft Engines in Lynn, MA where he led the design and development to flight service of the T64 turboprop/turboshaft engine and of the components for major new engine developments. He is still active in consulting in rotordynamics and in teaching and research in micro-engines at the MIT/Gas Turbine Laboratory.

Dr. Ehrich's major technical interests have been rotordynamic instabilities and nonlinear response involving over 45 published technical papers. He authored two chapters of the McGraw-Hill Handbook of Shock and Vibration and was editor-in-chief of and a principal contributor to the McGraw-Hill/Krieger Publications Handbook of Rotordynamics. He has been active in the ASME as founding Editor of the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, and as Chairman of the Design Engineering Division. He organized and was Program Chairman of the first ASME Vibrations Conference in 1967.

Abstract: The 21st Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise at the IDETC/2007 marks the 40th anniversary of this formal activity. The first ASME Vibrations Conference was organized in 1967 to provide a forum for presentations and information exchange on engineering research, analysis, design, and development technology in the fields of Vibrations and Acoustics focused on applications to real apparatus, systems and devices. The Conference was held in Boston, MA with Prof. J.P. den Hartog as Honorary Chairmen, on the occasion of his retirement from MIT. A review is made of the participants (many of whom became the mentors and teachers of today's generation of practitioners), and subject areas covered by that first conference. Reference is made to an article published on the occasion in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING magazine in May, 1967 and to the Special Vibration Issue of the Journal of Engineering for Industry published in November 1967 for all the papers presented at the Conference. The latter publication was the precursor to the current Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. Some comparisons between the 1967 and the 2007 conferences are included.

Thursday, September 6, 2007 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

27th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) CIE Honorary Speaker
CIE and MESA07 Dinner

Location: Augustus 3 Ballroom 4th Floor, Caesars Palace Hotel & Casino
Keynote Speaker: David Burdick, Founder and President of Collaborative Visions, Inc.
Keynote Title: Product Design Technology Megatrends - Engineering Products for the iPod Generation

Mr. David Burdick is the Founder and President of Collaborative Visions, Inc where he leads all research and consulting activities in the areas of Product Lifecycle Management. He has more than 20 years of experience in engineering and manufacturing information technologies and is widely recognized as a leading authority in the emerging fields of Collaborative Commerce and Product Lifecycle Management. Prior to founding Collaborative Visions, Mr. Burdick was a Vice President for Gartner Group's Manufacturing Applications Strategies Service covering C-Commerce, CPC, CAD/CAM/CAE and PDM markets and technologies since 1992. Prior to joining Gartner Group, Mr. Burdick was at Dataquest where he served as Vice President of Technology Analysis overseeing the activities of all U.S.-based research analysts in the areas of semiconductors, peripherals, computers, telecommunications and software. During his tenure at Dataquest, Mr. Burdick developed, launched and served as the lead analyst for a number of high technology research services including CAD/CAM and workstations.

Mr. Burdick has a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Bradley University and has completed graduate course work toward a master's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois

Abstract: The emerging iPod consumer demographic presents new challenges for companies seeking to build and produce products which appeal to these technology and web-savvy customers. Increasingly, a product's success will depend not only the features and functions offered, but by the buying experience and buzz created around the product. Reaching these consumers through traditional means such as TV advertising has proven to be ineffective. They prefer more immersive, web-centric mechanisms when formulating buying decisions - "playing TV" versus watching TV. Therefore, product companies need to be more creative to engineer not only the physical product, but the buying experience around it. Companies will also be challenged to deliver much greater product innovation beyond simple linear product extensions. Harnessing and leveraging the collective Intellectual Property of the company will be critical to infusing innovations more rapidly into products and maximizing market returns. This presentation will focus on these megatrends and the key design technology evolutions that are expected to follow.