The new ASMEnews
Beginning with this edition, ASME News Online becomes ASMEnews and takes on a rich and contemporary new look and expanded functionality.
The goal of the redesign is to make this important ASME communications vehicle a better tool for members to access the Society, its programs and services, and to learn the latest information about the organization and the accomplishments of fellow members.
ASMEnews will be delivered as an electronic newsletter twice per month to all of you who have provided ASME with an e-mail address. ASMEnews will include articles and features about ASME, columns by ASME officers, useful links to newsletters generated by the Society and updated links to division pages, ASME Web sites, and other products and areas of interest. [Read more]
+ ASME Annual Meeting Plenary Sessions Focus on Success in the Global Market The ASME Annual Meeting in Palm Desert, Calif., this June will feature three 90-minute plenary sessions aimed at keeping companies competitive in today’s uncertain global engineering market. These panel sessions are:
• Winning Strategies for Global Engineering: Products, Processes and Productivity, on Sunday, June 14, from 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
• Global Partnerships and Collaborations: Best Practices and Lessons Learned, on Monday, June 15, 8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
• Enhancing Your Knowledge of Global Trade: Codes and Standards as a Gateway to Global Markets, on Tuesday, June 16, from 8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. [Read more]
+ Giving Back and Promoting the Future ASME members support the Society and the future of mechanical engineering through gifts to the ASME Foundation. Meet an early career engineer who has created her own legacy by making a planned gift to the Foundation. [Read more]
+ ASME Auxiliary This month, the Auxiliary column takes a look at the Rice-Cullimore Scholarship, which for more than 60 years has been awarded to international students performing their graduate work in the United States. The scholarship is given with the help of the Institute of International Education and the Fulbright Program. [Read more]
+ Your Chance to Become an ASME Leader Applications are being accepted for those interested in running for the following offices: ASME president, member of the Board of Governors, or ASME Vice President. Letters of intent are due March 15. [Read more]
Niall O’Meara, aseptic manufacturing leader at Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals, will give the keynote presentation at the Third European Bioprocess Technology Seminars & Exhibition in Dublin, Ireland, from May 25–27. O'Meara, who is responsible for operations management at Pfizer’s sterile manufacturing facility in Dun Laoghaire, will discuss his company's approach to the assessment and reduction of risk in the development and manufacture of aseptic products.
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Upcoming ASME Emerging Technologies Events:
4th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices
June 8-9, 2009
Hyatt Regency
Irvine, Calif.
7th International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference
June 8-10, 2009
Marriott Newport Beach Hotel & Spa
Newport Beach, Calif.
7th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels
June 22-24, 2009
Pohang, South Korea
"ASME looks internally and externally for opportunities to encourage innovation — not only to keep pace with the global economy, but to provide structure, process and funding to support sustaining and breakthrough opportunities."