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IDETC/CIE WELCOME LETTERS
9th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS)
On behalf of the ASME Technical Committee on Micro– and Nano-Systems it is our pleasure to welcome you to the
ninth International Conference on Micro– and Nano-Systems (MNS) at the ASME IDETC 2015, held in Boston,
MA.
This conference is a unique venue for presenting and exchanging ideas on the design, applied mechanics, dynamic
systems, manufacturing, and controls aspects of micro– and nano-systems and follows the first eight successful
years of the conference in Las Vegas, New York, San Diego, Montreal, Washington, Chicago, Portland, and
Buffalo.
This year our conference accepted 44 full papers and brief presentations, which cover basic and applied research
areas in the fields of micro/nano scale dynamics, manufacturing, mechanisms, surface engineering and contact
mechanics with the specific goal of facilitate modeling, design and development of micro-robotics, MEMS,
bio-MEMS, sensors and actuators.
It is our pleasure to announce also a jointly organized MNS/VIB/MSNDC Symposium on Dynamics of MEMS and
NEMS.
As one of the highlights of our conference program, we are delighted to welcome Professor George Adams,
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at
Northeastern University, to present our keynote speech titled “Novel Approaches to Characterizing Nanoscale
Friction and Work of Adhesion of CNTs Using Measurements Followed by Modelling”.
The MNS Committee Meeting (open to all MNS Participants) will take place at 5:30pm on Tuesday, August 4th. In
this meeting, we will report on recent activities and discuss the future directions that are being considered by the
MNS Committee. This meeting provides a great opportunity for anyone wanting to get directly involved in shaping
the future of the MNS community.
We expect the 9th MNS conference to be an exciting forum on new ideas in micro– and nano-systems. As always,
the conference owes its success to the authors for submitting high quality papers, to the paper reviewers for their
diligent efforts, and to the symposia organizers for their efforts to advertise the conference and for their manage-
ment of the review process to ensure the conference’s high quality. We would like to sincerely thank all the people
that have contributed their time to the success of this conference.
Welcome to Boston and to the 9th MNS Conference!!
Irene Fassi
Conference Chair
Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation
Dumitru Caruntu
Program Chair
University of Texas-Pan American
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9th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS)
On behalf of the ASME Technical Committee on Micro– and Nano-Systems it is our pleasure to welcome you to the
ninth International Conference on Micro– and Nano-Systems (MNS) at the ASME IDETC 2015, held in Boston,
MA.
This conference is a unique venue for presenting and exchanging ideas on the design, applied mechanics, dynamic
systems, manufacturing, and controls aspects of micro– and nano-systems and follows the first eight successful
years of the conference in Las Vegas, New York, San Diego, Montreal, Washington, Chicago, Portland, and
Buffalo.
This year our conference accepted 44 full papers and brief presentations, which cover basic and applied research
areas in the fields of micro/nano scale dynamics, manufacturing, mechanisms, surface engineering and contact
mechanics with the specific goal of facilitate modeling, design and development of micro-robotics, MEMS,
bio-MEMS, sensors and actuators.
It is our pleasure to announce also a jointly organized MNS/VIB/MSNDC Symposium on Dynamics of MEMS and
NEMS.
As one of the highlights of our conference program, we are delighted to welcome Professor George Adams,
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at
Northeastern University, to present our keynote speech titled “Novel Approaches to Characterizing Nanoscale
Friction and Work of Adhesion of CNTs Using Measurements Followed by Modelling”.
The MNS Committee Meeting (open to all MNS Participants) will take place at 5:30pm on Tuesday, August 4th. In
this meeting, we will report on recent activities and discuss the future directions that are being considered by the
MNS Committee. This meeting provides a great opportunity for anyone wanting to get directly involved in shaping
the future of the MNS community.
We expect the 9th MNS conference to be an exciting forum on new ideas in micro– and nano-systems. As always,
the conference owes its success to the authors for submitting high quality papers, to the paper reviewers for their
diligent efforts, and to the symposia organizers for their efforts to advertise the conference and for their manage-
ment of the review process to ensure the conference’s high quality. We would like to sincerely thank all the people
that have contributed their time to the success of this conference.
Welcome to Boston and to the 9th MNS Conference!!
Irene Fassi
Conference Chair
Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation
Dumitru Caruntu
Program Chair
University of Texas-Pan American
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