Showcasing practical applications, innovative methodology, and business solutions for increasing efficiency, building market share, enhancing product design, and a whole lot more.

Watch the program take shape in these areas…

Design and Analysis
Product design and analysis has its roots in science and lead to bases on which to judge acceptability and performance. Calculation methods have transitioned from fundamental measures to the understanding of processes and interdisciplinary relationships as well as use of sophisticated tools – computer simulations, finite element analysis, and rapid prototyping to name a few. Along the way, lessons have been learned and best practices recognized. This Track is focused on the sharing of experiences of experts the foundations of best practices, how to avoid pitfalls and how to design/analyze “out of the box”.

This Track was designed with the young engineering community in mind and the concern that reliance on sophisticated tools to give engineering answers without consideration of checks and balances along with some level of benchmarking may lead to undesirable design decisions. The tendencies in this direction today are also driven by the pressures to be better, cheaper and faster – engineers need to challenge decisions in this path. As a result the key terms in this Track are – lessons learned, best practices, expertise, and reality.

Energy
National experts will discuss issues affecting our national and global energy strategies such as global climate change, international developments, national security, energy industry restructuring and the politics of energy. Members of industry, technology developers and research leaders will address the future of nuclear, coal, natural gas, oil, solar and renewable energy. Developments in energy efficiency, engine technology and innovative power systems will be reviewed.

Engineering Business Management
Management theory, knowledge, and skills cut across all engineering disciplines as well as all types of business activity. The Engineering Business Management Track attempts to assemble the diverse perspectives of managers and engineers from various sectors and disciplines in a central set of contiguous, themed sessions for technical papers, panels, lectures, and workshops. For Congress 2005, we focus on the themes of new product development, management transition and certification for engineers, management opportunities for early career engineers, global management issues, and legal and ethical issues. Also, in 2005 the EBM Track features the Henry Robinson Towne lecture, an ASME tradition in management excellence, sponsored by the Management Division.

Ethics and Licensure
This new track explores ethical and licensing challenges facing engineers as technnology evolves. Topics are taken from today's news headlines: 21st Century Disasters, International and Cross Border Cultures, Restrospective of ASME Hydrolevel Case, Whistleblowing and Ethics Workshop. Attend this track to strengthen your awareness of significant choices affecting industry and society and improve your ability to implement principled choices that will stand the test of time.

Health & Safety
International experts explore the use of cutting-edge technologies to develop highly sophisticated products and medical devices for application in healthcare. They report current advances in the use of recombinant DNA, cell fusion, novel bioprocess techniques, bioremediation, and other technologies. They devote special attention to bioterrorism and homeland security, focusing on implications for communications systems, engineering issues, and sensors. Examining education and business issues, the track offers exciting insights into the latest approaches and future trends in bioengineering and biotechnology.

Integration & Packaging of Micro/Nano/Electronic Systems
This exciting new combined industrial track highlights three of the hottest high-tech research & development topics of our time:

1. MEMS: Covering miniature devices combining electrical, mechanical, optical, chemical and/or biological components fabricated via integrated circuit or similar manufacturing techniques…
2. Nanotechnology: Examining the science and engineering of applying nano building blocks and nano processing, and new discoveries addressing design, processing, packaging and assembly of multiscale systems…
3. Electronic Systems and Photonic Design: Focusing on the tools needed for the design and manufacturing process of micro (MEMS), nano scale, and photonics technologies.

Sustainable Engineering
Sustainable Development is a concept that penetrates all areas and professions of our society.

Via this exciting track ASME and its divisions provide resources related to sustainable engineering. This action and leadership must continue to other industry areas, and multidisciplinary professions.

The sessions aim to promote and educate engineers, managers, technical professionals, and public in general about sustainability, challenges and rewards, best practices and social responsibility. Moreover, to provide information and tools that can be used by the attendees after the congress is completed in their working environment (industry, government, and academic communities).

Transportation
A Transportation Track is proposed for ASME International’s IMECE 2005. The track will feature invited speakers and technical sessions to address multidisciplinary problems across three classes of vehicles: automobiles, aircraft, and spacecraft. This track will cover a wide range of ASME Divisions and Groups. The goal of the Transportation Track is to promote cross-disciplinary approaches to solving problems in the transportation industry. Technical and panel sessions will cover topics of current interest relevant to crashworthiness, hypersonic flight enablers, aerospace propulsion, and UAV technology.

Program is subject to change.