20th Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB)
Date: Monday, September 26, 2005
Time: 8:00am - 9:00am
Location: Regency Ballroom A, Third Level, 4th Floor, Hyatt Regency Long Beach
Keynote: Dr. Daniel J. Inman, Director, Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, and G.R. Goodson Professor, Virginia Tech
Keynote Topic: Vibrations and Control of Flexible Spacecraft

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 five books (on vibration, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 165 journal papers and 250 proceedings papers, given 26 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 40 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 60 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 was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1984-1989). He is currently Technical Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (1999- ), Technical Editor of the Shock and Vibration Digest (1998- ), 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), and as Associate Editor of the following: ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics (1986-89), ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics (1988-94), Mechanics of Machines and Structures (1986-98), International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis (1986-1990) and Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (1992-1999) and Smart Materials and Structures (1991-2001). He is a founding member of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Technical Committee and the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee. He won the ASME Adaptive Structures Award in April 2000, the ASME/AIAA SDM Best Paper Award in April 2001 and the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Life Time Achievement Award in March of 2003.

Professor McCarthy is a member of the faculty of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at the University of California at Irvine, with expertise in machine and robotic system design. He received his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University (1974), his Masters of Science (1975) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

He worked for FMC Corporation, taught at Loyola Marymount University and the University of Pennsylvania, before moving to UCI in 1986. He has over 130 publications, has edited one book, Kinematics of Robot Manipulators, and authored two more, Introduction to Theoretical Kinematics and Geometric Design of Linkages, and has served as a consultant to a number of companies in the area of machine and robotic system design, as well as a legal consultant on engineering design. His research team is responsible for the Sphinx, SphinxPC and Synthetica software, which extended computer-aided linkage synthesis to spherical and spatial linkage systems. His paper introducing Synthetica received the MDI best paper award in 2002. He has presented tutorials on the geometric design of robots and spatial linkage systems at both the ASME DETC and the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Recently, he served for 18 months as Chief Technical Officer of a medical robotics company. He returned to UCI with a commitment to developing leadership through student involvement in major engineering projects, such the design, manufacture and testing of racecars for intercollegiate competition. He has served ASME as chair of the Mechanisms Committee, conference chair for the 1996 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, and is currently the editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

James (Jim) Heppelmann is the executive vice president, software products, and chief product officer at PTC. In his current position, Mr. Heppelmann is responsible for PTC's overall product direction, including coordination of PTC product vision and strategy, product design and development, and product marketing and management. Mr. Heppelmann has worked in the information technology industry since 1985 and has extensive experience developing and deploying large-scale information systems within the manufacturing marketplace. Prior to joining PTC, Mr. Heppelmann was co-founder and chief technical officer of Windchill Technology, a Minnesota-based company acquired by PTC in 1998. Before co-founding Windchill Technology, Mr. Heppelmann served as chief technical officer at Metaphase. Mr. Heppelmann had worked at Control Data Corporation (now known as Syntegra) for seven years until the company formed Metaphase in 1992.

Mr. Heppelmann speaks regularly at product development and manufacturing industry events on topics such as PLM, digital value chain integration, and gaining competitive advantage through product development process improvement and global product development. He has also been published and quoted in numerous business and trade publications, including The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, VARBusiness Magazine and MSI Magazine. Mr. Heppelmann attended University of Minnesota, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on computer-aided design.

Stephen Prusha is currently Manager of the Strategic Systems Technology Program Office (SSTPO) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is responsible for the development of new advanced engineering tools, processes, and environments, system and technology investment analysis capabilities, and risk modeling and analysis capabilities for JPL, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and other supporting organizations. Mr. Prusha has over twenty years of experience in technology development, spacecraft design and flight development, and project/program management. He spent three years at NASA Headquarters managing technology flight experiments on the Space Shuttle and other spacecraft, and later led the Technology Flight Experiments Office at JPL.

Over the last decade JPL has developed sophisticated capabilities in rapid space systems design, and a variety of concurrent design teams (such as JPL's Team X) have conducted well over 600 conceptual mission designs in the last ten years, addressing systems to be deployed from near the Sun's surface to interstellar space. However, the growing complexity of science missions and the emerging synergy with the exploration goals of the manned space flight community suggests a potentially significant change to both the process of conceptual design and the nature of the design products themselves.

These influences, and the ensuing technical responses, will be discussed with a special emphasis on the following emerging capabilities and products:

• Collaborative, distributed design, including the challenges associated with maintaining concurrency in distributed design, and why current methods are likely inadequate for achieving the required design performance.
• Model-based design and engineering, including how emerging capabilities are likely to impact early-phase design efforts.
• Evolution of the conceptual design product, including the increasing utility of decision-based design structures, and the implications of developing and using entirely new design representations in existing programmatic and technical processes

Professor C. D. (Dan) Mote is President of the University of Maryland and Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering. His goals call for the university to lead the state in the development of its high-tech economy, especially in the information & communication, bioscience & biotechnology and nano-technology sectors. President Mote is also a leader in the national dialogue on higher education. He has testified on educational issues before Congress, talked and written in national media on the changing funding model in higher education, served as vice chair of the Department of Defense Basic Research Committee, and is a member of the Council of the National Academy of Engineering. He also serves as President of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Prior to assuming the Presidency at Maryland, Dr. Mote served on the University of California Berkeley faculty for 31 years as Vice Chancellor, an endowed chair in Mechanical Systems, was President of the UC Berkeley Foundation, chair of Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Mote's research lies in dynamic systems and biomechanics. Internationally recognized for his research on the dynamics of gyroscopic systems and the biomechanics of snow skiing, he has authored more than 300 publications, holds patents in the U.S., Norway, Finland and Sweden, and has mentored 56 Ph.D. students. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. President Mote has received numerous awards and honors, including the Humboldt Prize awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a recipient of the Berkeley Citation, its highest honor, and was named Distinguished Engineering Alumnus. He has received three honorary doctorates. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and serves on its Council. He was elected to Honorary Membership in the ASME, its most distinguished recognition, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Wood Science, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He and his wife of 40+ years, Patricia Mote, have two married children, Melissa and Adam, and four grandchildren. Patsy Mote has continued her strong support of the arts and is spokesperson for the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, a member of Prince George's County Arts Council and chairs the Art in Public Places Panel for the County.

Dr. Ryan is an entrepreneur who has focused his 25-year career on advancing the usage of digital simulation to improve product development. Most recently, he was responsible for all software, services, and systems development at MSC.Software. Prior to joining MSC.Software, Dr. Ryan served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Mechanical Dynamics, Inc., an international supplier of virtual prototyping software and services. During his fifteen years at Mechanical Dynamics, Ryan led the company from $4M to over $50M in annual revenues, took the company public, completed seven international acquisitions, and positioned MDI as the leader in the multibody dynamics market sector. Dr. Ryan began his career in software sales and service at Structural Dynamics Research Corporation in Cincinnati in 1976. He spent two years on the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics faculty at The University of Michigan. Currently, Dr. Ryan is serving on a number of advisory boards for high tech companies and educational institutions. Dr. Ryan received his Bachelor's degree in engineering and business from the University of Cincinnati, and holds M.S. and PhD degrees in engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Dennis A. Nagy serves the role at CD-adapco of driving the global marketing of CD-adapco products and services, investigating new business opportunities, and formulating corresponding strategies, all in support the company's long-term business growth objectives. Dr. Nagy is a thirty-year veteran of all aspects of CAE, from R&D through executive management. Prior to joining CD-adapco, he held various executive positions in the CAE world including CEO of Engineous, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales and Support at MSC.Software, VP of Marketing at Fluent, and most recently VP of International Business Development at Blue Ridge Numerics. Earlier in his career, he opened the first German office of SDRC, was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University, and developed the finite element software system ASKA/PERMAS at the University of Stuttgart's.

Daratech, the leading market research organization specializing in CAD, CAE, CAM, PDM, and PLM, forecasts that 25% of all PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) spending in industry will go to Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) simulation software and services, irrefutable evidence of the technology's growing strategic business importance in driving design automation. This presentation provides an overview CAE's evolution and where it now fits in the overall PLM landscape. The presentation then highlights the tremendous business benefit potential of CAE that still lies ahead and what cultural and organizational obstacles need to be overcome to achieve that potential. When modern structural dynamics, fluid dynamics, material science, chemical reaction kinetics, and electrostatics/magnetics are process-integrated, the resulting multi-physics solution models can become powerful evaluation engines for useful process-centric design optimization (PIDO). The technological basis then exists for unlocking significantly greater design insight that already exists in simulation models being created and used in industrial product/process development.

Dr. Nayfeh is a University Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech since 1976. He is a world-leading expert in nonlinear dynamics. He has ten published books; 395+ articles in peer-reviewed archival journals, 36 book chapters, 545 presentations at national and international meetings, 66 Ph. D's graduated through his programs, and demonstrable leadership in and service to the scientific community. He obtained his BS in 1962, MS in 1963, and PhD in 1964 from Stanford University, all in five years. He holds honorary doctorates from the Marine Technical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia (1996), and the Technical University of Munich, Germany (1999). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Academy of Mechanics. He received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (For seminal contributions to perturbation methods, nonlinear dynamics, acoustics, and boundary-layer transition; praiseworthy for their quality relevance, timeliness, and lasting influence on the aerospace community.) in 1995 and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers J. P. Den Hartog Award (Presented in recognition of lifetime contributions to the teaching and practice of vibration engineering.) in 1997; Honorary Doctorate, St. Petersburg University, Russia, 1996; Frank J. Maher Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, 1997; College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, 1998; Honorary Doctorate, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 1999; S. K. Mazumder, A. H. Nayfeh, and D. Borojevic, ``A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Fast- and Slow-Scale Instabilities of a DC-DC Converter," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2001, pp. 201-216, winner of the IEEE Power Electronics Society Transactions Prize Paper Award for 2001; Honorary Doctorate, Politechnika Szczecinska, Poland, May 2004; and Virginia Life Achievement in Science Award, 2005. He is the Editor of the Wiley Book Series on Nonlinear Science and the Editor-in-Chief of Nonlinear Dynamics and Journal of Vibration and Control.

Fei-Yue Wang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 1990.

He is a Full Professor in Systems and Industrial Engineering and the Director of the Program for Advanced Research in Complex Systems, University of Arizona. He is the Director of the Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems from 1995 to 2000, Editor-in-Charge of Series in Intelligent Control and intelligent Automation from 1996 to 2004, and is currently the Editor-in-Charge of Series in Complex Systems and Intelligence Science. His current research interests include modeling, analysis, and control mechanism of complex systems; agent-based control systems; intelligent control systems; real-time embedded systems, application specific operating systems (ASOS); applications in intelligent transportation systems, intelligent vehicles and telematics, web caching and service caching, smart appliances and home systems, and network-based automation systems.

Dr. Wang is an Associated Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A, B and C, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and several other international journals. He is an elected member of IEEE SMC Board of Governors and the AdCom of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, the President-Elect of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society and Chair the Technical Committee on System Complexity of the Chinese Association of Automation. He was the Program Chair of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Chair for Workshops and Tutorials for 2002 IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), the General Chair of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Co-Program Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles, the General Chair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, the Co-Program Chair of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics and the General Chair of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles. He is the President of Chinese Association for Science and Technology, USA and the Vice President and one of the major contributors of the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation, and a member of the Boards of Directors of five companies in information technology and automation. Dr. Wang is a Fellow of IEEE.

Professor Andrés Kecskeméthy graduated from the University of Stuttgart in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 and received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Duisburg in 1993. From 1993 to 1996, he worked as Senior Engineer at the Chair of Mechatronics of the University of Duisburg. From 1994 to 1995, he stayed as a senior guest researcher at the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University with a fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 1996, Dr. Kecskemethy was appointed Full Professor at the Technical University of Graz, where he held the Chair for Mechanics until 2002. In 2002, Professor Kecskeméthy moved to the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he holds the Chair for Mechanics at the Institute of Mechatronics and System Dynamics. He is currently Editor-In-Chief of the Journal Mechanism and Machine Theory and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University Duisburg-Essen. His memberships include the German Engineering Association VDI and the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science. Professor Kecskeméthy has worked in the areas of kinematics and dynamics of multibody systems, covering topics such as Lie-Group representation of rigid-body motion, efficient processing of kinematical chains, numerical methods for impact problems, modeling of mechatronical systems and vehicle dynamics, as well as the design and simulation of legged vehicles and robotic systems. In this setting, he has developed the object-oriented multibody library "Mobile", which is currently being used in aerospace, ground transportation, mechanism design and biomechanics, the vehicle dynamics program FASIM-C++, as well as the symbolic package SYMKIN for generation of closed-form kinematics and dynamics equations for complex mechanisms. His current research interests lie in the areas of biomechanics and computer-based surgery planning, virtual reality and heavyweight robotics. He is author of more than 90 proceedings and journal papers in the aforementioned areas.

Professor Serge Tichkiewitch is a full professor at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. In 1993 he created a research team on integrated design with the goal to work on methodologies, organizations, and tools for the integration of life cycle issues into product development. This team of over 40 people has worked on the integration of manufacturing processes, assembly, maintenance, and recycling during the design process. Professor Tichkiewitch has personally worked with the automobile manufacturer Renault on the integration of recycling during automobile design and how to take into account recycling criteria in addition to the criteria of cost, time, and quality. He has also worked on the remanufacturing process and disassembly process in order to reduce consumption as part of a sustainable development process.

At this time, Professor Tichkiewitch is in charge of a Network of Excellence on Virtual Research Lab for a Knowledge Community in Production. The effort has 218 researchers from 22 teams in 15 different countries. The group's mission is to create a new legal structure at the European level in order to act together as a real laboratory. The subject of research is the integration of the production processes and the entire life cycle in the product development process.