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Saif is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Materials Division Reception
Engineers since 2011. He served as the President of the Sponsored by: Materials Division
Society of Engineering Science during the calendar year 2016.
He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Singapore- 6:00pm–8:00pm
MIT Alliance for Research and Technology during 2010–2012. Room 409, David L. Lawrence Convention Center
He received the Xerox Award for Faculty Research from
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) during 2003 Fluids Engineering Division Reception
and 2006. He was a Willett Faculty Scholar, College of Sponsored by: Fluids Engineering Executive
Engineering, UIUC, during 2003–2009. Committee
Title: Living Machines 6:30pm–8:30pm
Pennsylvania West, Second Floor, The Westin Hotel
The industrial revolution of the 19th century marked the onset
of the era of machines that transformed societies. However, all Applied Mechanics Division Honors & Awards
of these machines are non-living and they do not have inherent Banquet
intelligence. On the other hand, since the discovery of genes, Sponsored by: Applied Mechanics Division
there is a considerable body of knowledge on engineering
living cells. It is thus appropriate to envision biohybrid 7:00pm–10:00pm
machines that are made from engineered scaffolds and living Westmoreland Central & East,
cells. These machines have the potential of unprecedented Second Floor, The Westin Hotel
capabilities, as they would carry the footprints of millions of
years of evolution. These machines may emerge from an Tickets: $88
interaction between the living cells and the micro-nano
scaffolds. In this talk, we will present such an elementary The evening’s events will include honoring and presenting the
machine, a small scale swimmer, consisting of a soft slender following AMD awards to:
string and rat cardiomyocytes. The string is made from a soft
polymeric material by filling a microfabricated channel using Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award: Liping Liu
capillary draw. Cells are cultured on one region of the string. Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award: Tayfun Ersin
These cells interact with the string as well as with each other Tezduyar
and beat in synchrony as a single actuator. This living actuator Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award: Firdaus E. Udwadia
bends the string, and a bending wave propagates from the Daniel C. Drucker Medal: David M. Barnett
actuator site toward the end, generating sufficient thrust for Warner T. Koiter Medal: M. Taher A. Saif
swimming. This artificial machine thus swims in fluids as the Timoshenko Medal: Ares J. Rosakis
engineered living swimmer. These swimmers might be used in Journal of Applied Mechanics Best Paper Award: Charles
vivo for autonomous intelligent drug delivery. Wojnar
Lloyd H. Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award:
Noise Control and Acoustics Division Wine & Cheese Tevis D. B. Jacobs and Ashlie Martini
Reception
Sponsored by: Noise Control and Acoustics Division WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
5:30pm–7:00pm Plenary Presentation
Somerset East, Second Floor, The Westin Hotel 8:00am–8:45am
Women in Engineering Reception (breakfast served from 7:30am to 8:00am)
Sponsored by: Diversity & Inclusion Strategy Ballroom A, David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Committee
Mark Hindsbo
5:30pm–7:00 pm Vice President and General Manager, Design Business Unit,
Crawford East & West, Third Floor, The Westin Hotel ANSYS
The reception provides a focal point at the conference for a Presentation Title: Innovation in Engineering
gathering of women from the wide range of ASME activity for
networking and a bit of casual relaxation at the end of a Democratization of technology, from the printing press to the
conference day. The event is open to all ASME women graphical user interface of the PC, has driven profound
engineers and engineering students. changes to society and innovation. Many of these innovations
were driven by engineers, and now engineering technologies
xxviii themselves are being democratized. Powerful tools such as
simulation on-demand manufacturing, for decades the domain
of highly specialized experts, are becoming accessible to all.
