• All ASME Student Section Officers and Committee Chairs
• All ASME Student Section Advisors
• Any ASME Student Member who would like more information on what to expect from their student section or is considering becoming a part of the Student Section Management Team in the future.

What You Gain:

• Knowledge of ASME's organization and structure so that you can understand the role student sections play in fostering professionalism.
• Tools and resources that can enhance your efficiency as a student section leader.
• Leadership and management skills that will better enable you to run your student section and will also carry over as you enter the workplace.
• A better understanding of ASME's member benefits that focuses on how you can leverage these benefits to aid your career development and also promote membership to other students.
• An opportunity to meet and network with students from other universities and with ASME district leadership.
  A fun and enjoyable experience that is also educational.

In today's competitive engineering job market, employers and engineering managers are looking for the technical credentials that separate one candidate from another. The District, in keeping with ASME's Mission of promoting and enhancingthe technical competency and professional well-being of our members, ASME has organized this conference as a forum for ME graduate students to develop their technical credentials and to establish their professional identity. This program is designed to enhance the ability of graduate students and young engineers to compete in an ever more demanding and changing global market place by providing and developing the skills and the demonstrated technical performance that will make them standout among their peers.

In providing conferences such as this, the District also wants to establish a bond between ASME and the young engineer that encourages continued participation in ASME activities, increased use of ASME resources and programs, and reinforces the concept of "ASME for a Lifetime.

You do not have to be attending a school in District E to participate. Participaton in this conference is open to all ASME Graduate Students.

More Information

Previously known as the Ingersoll-Rand Competition. The fundamental purpose of the competition is to encourage engineering students to be total professionals by participating in technical events that expand on their academic pursuits, by building character toward good citizenship, and by learning more about real world engineering. It recognizes those student sections that show outstanding achievement in the manner by which they conduct their affairs. A comprehensive set of variables is considered when evaluating student section effectiveness. Each variable is weighted, and the strength of a section is determined by the total number of points accumulated. A good section is one that exhibits a wide diversity of activities. Rules and Forms

Submit Reports to:
Ms. Deidra Hackley, ASME,
Three Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Email:hackleyd@asme.org Fax: 212-591-7671

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Human Powered Vehicles are aerodynamic, highly engineered vehicles that may be for use on land, in the water or the air. Some land-based HPV's have achieved speeds of over 60 mph. ASME sponsors the Human Powered Vehicle Competition in hopes of finding a design that can be used for everyday activities ranging from commuting to and from work to going to the grocery store. Senior engineering students can use this competition for their capstone project and with their efforts design and construct a fast, sleek, and safe vehicle capable of road use. The point of the competition is the elegance and ingenuity of the design, including presentation, practicality and safety. All areas of engineering problem-solving are addressed - it's not as simple as it appears to design and build these vehicles. And the competition itself is great fun for the team. Rules and More Information