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Welcome Letters

IDETC/CIE

STUDENT ACTIVITIES WELCOME

On behalf of the ASME Design Engineering Division, we would like to Most importantly, this is your opportunity to network and establish your
welcome you to the 2016 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference. Over the next four place in this community. Talk about research with authors who, to this point,
days you will have an opportunity to share your research with your you only know by seeing their name on the papers you’ve cited. Reconnect
community, build your professional network, and see state-of-the-art with peers from other universities who you haven’t seen since the last
research being presented. This conference is unique in that it has a large conference. To help you improve your networking skills, attend the ASME
student presence and that there are a wide range of student activities and FutureME Mini-Talks event Tuesday evening and learn best practices from
competitions being hosted to help you become engaged in this vibrant other early career engineering professionals. Then, take part in a friendly
and exciting community. We encourage you to participate in as many of team-based design competition where you can win gift card prizes to local
these activities as you can. establishments and experience Charlotte with your new friends.

Student activities kick off on Sunday with a workshop and competition All of this has been made possible with support from ASME, the IDETC/CIE
presentations. You can attend a workshop in the afternoon and discuss organizers, the ASME Design Engineering Division, and NSF. We thank
research practices that will help you maximize your productivity and them for their continued support and encourage you to make the most of
research efficiency. Or you could attend presentations associated with your time here at the 2016 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference!
international competitions, such as the ASME Innovative Design Simulation
Challenge and the ASME IAM3D Challenge.

There is a Graduate Research Poster Session organized by the ASME CIE
Division, an ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition, and
a Design for the Future Competition organized by the Design Engineering
Division. While navigating the conference proceedings, look for student
paper competitions organized by MSNDC, TCVS, and AVT and see the Scott Ferguson Bryony DuPont
cutting-edge research being presented by your peers. Also, engage in Chair Co-Chair
conversation with winners of the NSF/ASME Student Design Essay NC State University Oregon State University
Competition as they share their vision of how design can help manufactur-
Raleigh, NC, United States Corvalis, OR, United States
ers maximize their potential in the year 2030!
scott_ferguson@ncsu.edu bryony.dupont@oregonstate.edu

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