Carolyn W. Meyers (ASME member)
Dr. Carolyn W. Meyers, a past vice president of ASME’s Board on Minorities and Women, is president of Norfolk State University. She has held administrative posts at North Carolina A&T State University, the Center for Success of the Southeastern Universities and Colleges Coalition in Engineering Education (SUCCEED), and Georgia Tech. Her professional activities also include chairing the board of directors of the National Institute of Aerospace. She has received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph A. Teetor Award, and the National Society of Black Engineers' Golden Torch Award.

Patricia B. Campbell
Dr. Patricia B. Campbell, president of Campbell-Kibler Associates Inc., has written more than 90 publications. She was a co-author of The AAUW Report: How Schools Shortchange Girls and was a member of the U.S. Department of Education’s Impact Review Panel and took part in the development of the National Science Foundation publication Infusing Equity in Systemic Reform: An Implementation Scheme. She has received awards from the American Educational Research Association, the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network, the Educational Press Association of America, and the American Business Women's Association.

Ron Lasser
Dr. Ron Lasser, a mechanical engineer, is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Tufts University’s School of Engineering. He has been intricately involved in connecting young women to engineering disciplines since the late 1970s. His objective is to inspire students to reach their full potential and to bring diversity to engineering so that new ideas and innovations may be discovered in order to promote collaboration and solve challenging problems. Dr. Lasser has spent 25 years in industry at such companies as AT&T Bell Laboratories, DuPont ImagiTex, and General Scanning Inc. in various roles from design engineer to senior executive. Before he joined the Tufts faculty, he was an international consultant in product development, innovation, and product portfolio strategy and planning.

John G. Falcioni
John Falcioni has been at ASME for 15 years and is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Mechanical Engineering magazine, the flagship publication of ASME. He also oversees the electronic newspaper,ASME News, ME Magazine Online, and all general-interest supplements. Falcioni’s career spans management-level positions at technical magazines including Macintosh News, Electronic World News, and Electronic Engineering Times. Prior, he worked at several national and New York publications covering business, government and politics. He also worked at The Hartford Courant newspaper, and the CBS Weekend News. Falcioni holds a master’s degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Marc Halpern
Dr. Marc Halpern, P.E., is a research director at Gartner Inc., where he is the lead analyst covering product lifecycle management strategies and software applications. He focuses on design, product data management, manufacturing process planning, and product portfolio management. Dr. Halpern has more than 20 years of experience as a PLM software industry specialist and a practicing engineer. Prior to joining Gartner, he was a principal and research director of D.H. Brown's engineering, manufacturing, and design research and advisory services.

Dave J. Kasik
Dave Kasik is the Boeing Enterprise Visualization Architect. His research interests include innovative combinations of basic 3D graphics and user interface technologies and increasing awareness of the impact of visualization technology inside and outside Boeing. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH (he has attended all SIGGRAPH conferences), and ACM SIGCHI. He is a member of the editorial board for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

Ron Lasser
Dr. Ron Lasser is professor in the electrical and computer engineering department of Tufts University’s School of Engineering. He spent 25 years in industry at such companies as AT&T Bell Laboratories, DuPont ImagiTex, and General Scanning Inc. in various roles from design engineer to senior executive. Before he joined the Tufts faculty, he was an international consultant in product development, innovation, and product portfolio strategy and planning.

Paul Murphy
Dr. Paul Murphy is director of Platform Engineering for Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc., in Gloucester, Mass., a supplier of Ion Implantation Systems—large machines used by semiconductor manufacturers in the chip fabrication process. Dr. Murphy has been involved in guidance system design, scientific instrument design, space and satellite design, and semiconductor capital equipment. Murphy earned his Ph.D in physics from Ohio State University.

Walt Baxter
Dr. Baxter is a Principal Scientist within Medtronic's Cardiac Rhythm Management Division and operates primarily within the Therapy Delivery business helping to develop novel pacing/defibrillator leads and catheters for positioning leads within the heart. His expertise has been tapped across the company where he has supported research and development efforts in the heart valves, diabetes, and vascular business units. Prior to joining Medtronic, Dr. Baxter trained within the Cardiac Mechanics Research Group at the University of California, San Diego where he developed, implemented, and validated novel algorithms for elucidating the mechanics of implanted medical devices. Dr. Baxter serves on the industrial advisory boards at UC Irvine's Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego's Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and San Diego State University's Department of Mechanical Engineering.

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT
Mark Strobel
Mark Strobel, the director of Solutions Portfolio Management, joinedDassault Systemes in November 2004 after 5 years of managing consulting services in the PLM industry. Prior to entering the PLM industry in 1999, Mark worked in the Automotive Industry at Breed Technologies (now Key Safety Systems) doing Business Development and Program Management for airbag systems. Mark has a bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA with majors in Finance and Operations from Indiana University. As an Aerospace Engineer, Mark worked for Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company on the F-22 program and for Sikorsky Aircraft on multiple programs including the RAH-66 Comanche. Mark currently serves as the director of Solutions Portfolio Management for Dassault Systemes Industry Solutions Americas Group.

Don Norman
Dr. Don Norman is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group and a Professor at Northwestern University. He has been Vice President of Apple Computer and an executive at Hewlett Packard. He serves on many advisory boards, such as Chicago’s Institute of Design and Encyclopedia Britannica. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands), the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from SIGCHI, the professional organization for Computer-Human Interaction, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia). He is well known for his books “The Design of Everyday Things” and “Emotional Design.” He is now writing “The Design of Future Things,” discussing the role that automation plays in such everyday places as the home, and automobile.

Greg A. Jamieson
Dr. Greg A. Jamieson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching focuses on the design of cognitive artifacts for those working in complex systems. Dr. Jamieson specializes in human-automation interaction and human-machine interface design with applications primarily in process control. He has published over 25 articles on human factors in process control, has authored four successful patents for advanced operator graphics. He has also established a simulation facility for human factors research in process control.

Judy Vance
Dr. Judy M. Vance is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University and a Faculty Fellow of the Virtual Reality Applications Center. She is currently working at the National Science Foundation as Program Director of Engineering Design. Her research interests include virtual reality applications in mechanical design, numerical methods that facilitate interactive design, and spatial mechanism design. Dr. Vance is Vice Chair of the ASME Design Engineering Division and an ASME Fellow. She has served ASME in several capacities including Associate Technical Editor of the Journal of Mechanical Design and chair of the Design Automation Technical Committee. Most recently Dr. Vance led a nationwide group, WELI, in promoting advancement of women engineering faculty to positions of academic leadership.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Aaron Kelly
Aaron Kelly, Director for Project Management is responsible for leading the messaging, marketing and future direction of the entire SolidWorks product line. Kelly joined the company in 1996 as a technical support engineer and went on to hold several positions within the product marketing department, overseeing SolidWorks competitive analyses and add-in product lines. Prior to SolidWorks, Kelly was a designer with United Plastic Fabricating, Inc. He frequently addresses audiences at industry events like National Manufacturing Week/NDES, SME Interoperability and 3D Collaboration and SolidWorks World. Kelly is a mechanical engineer.