ASME
Early Career Technical Conferences (ECTC) Sponsored by the ASME Old Guard and ASME International Southwest & Rocky Mountain District E | ||
| CALL FOR PAPERS |  April 17-19, 2008 Host: ASME Student Section Louisiana Tech University 
Ruston, LA |
| A FORUM FOR THE PRESENTATION OF IN-PROGRESS OR COMPLETED WORK BY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER ENGINEERS | ||
CONFERENCE
PURPOSE
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 enhancing the technical
competency and professional well-being of our members, ASME has organized this
conference as a forum for ME graduate students and early career engineers (practicing
engineers who graduated within the past 5 years) 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."
| WHERE
AND WHEN WILL DISTRICT E ECTCs BE HELD? ECTCs are held each year as part of the annual ASME Student Professional Development Conferences (SPDCs). The 2008 SPDCs will be held April 3- in Denver, CO and April 17-9 in Ruston, LA. WHO
CAN PARTICIPATE? | WHY
SHOULD YOU ATTEND? If you are an undergraduate ME student, attending the ECTC will give you an idea about the type of projects graduate students work on in order to obtain a MS or PhD degree. Moreover, if you have any aspirations to go to graduate school, you will have an opportunity to talk to graduate students from other schools in the District and ask them about their experience with the graduate program at their school. If you are a ME graduate student, you can either just attend the presentations to learn something new or take an active role by presenting your in-progress or near-completion research work. You will probably receive constructive comments from fellow students and other faculty on how you can improve your research results. All presenters can gain invaluable experience by practicing your presentation skills in front of a small and friendly audience before attempting to present your work at national or international conferences. |
| HONORARIUM The first 10 participants whose papers are accepted for each ECTC and are able to attend the conference will receive an "honorarium" of not less than $50 and not more than $200. The honorarium amount will be proportional to the distance traveled to make the presentation at the ECTC. If your paper is among the first 10 chosen, but you are unable to attend the conference, it will still be published in the proceedings. |
HOW
TO PARTICIPATE
Graduate
students planning to take part in one of the 2008 ECTCs should send the "Notice
of Intent to Participate Form" to Dr. Rick Couvillion (rjc@uark.edu)
and to ECTC Support Judi Cobb (cobbj1@asme.org)
by February 8, 2008.
Completed Paper Submittal and Authorization to Publish a Technical Paper Form and full paper (prepared according to ASME Guidelines at http://www.asme.org/Publications/ConfProceedings/Author/Author_Resources.cfm) must be sent to Dr. Couvillion as an MS Word file. Only papers prepared according to ASME guidelines will be accepted. The absolute deadline for receipt of papers is February 20, 2008. Papers will be reviewed, and notification of acceptance, as well as the list of first 10 participants eligible for travel reimbursement to each ECTC, will be announced by March 22, 2008.
AUTHORSHIP
Authorship can include names of the student(s) and a faculty member(s) or other
engineers. However, a graduate student or early career engineer must be the primary
author; honorarium and presentation shall be restricted to the primary author.
It is ASME policy that all those who have participated significantly in the technical
aspects of an ASME paper should be recognized as co-authors or cited in the acknowledgments.
The author name shall consist of first name, middle initial, and last name. Affiliation
shall identify the name of school and/or company and location (name of place and
state).
PAPER
PUBLICATION DISTRICT
AND SOCIETY RESPONSIBILITY | PROPRIETARY/OWNERSHIP
OF PRINTED MATERIAL While the authors can own all proprietary rights to the material published in the Proceedings, it is recommended that acknowledgements be made to the ASME ECTC Proceedings. This enables on-going research material to be used for presentation/publication in the journal. |
PAPER
REVIEW PROCESS
Reviews are arranged by schools/companies
of those submitting papers. For example, if students from the University
of Casablanca submit two papers, the University of Casablanca is responsible for
getting reviews for two papers submitted by students from other schools or companies.
Each paper must have 3 reviews. The list of abstracts will be emailed to the paper
primary authors soon after the abstract due date so that schools/companies can
claim papers they want to review. The papers are claimed for review on a first-come,
first-choice basis.
Review forms will be provided. Papers are reviewed for:
Adherence to submission rules
Originality of Work
Engineering Relevance
Scientific Relevance
Completeness of the Reported Work
Acknowledgement of the Work of Others
Organization of the Work
Clarity in Writing, Tables, graphs and Illustrations
Acceptability of the top 20 for publication, presentation, and travel expense
contribution.
It is the policy of ASME to accept for publication only original contributions to the engineering literature. In most cases, this means that a paper should incorporate substantial new information not previously published, except it can be a part of on-going or completed research/thesis work. Under certain circumstances, reviews or collations or analyses of information previously published in scattered form may be acceptable. Material that is not original must be noted by footnotes and/or bibliography. Receipt of a manuscript does not constitute acceptance for presentation and publication. All manuscripts and author-prepared papers accepted are subject to editing.
FORMAT
Each entry must be typed single-spaced, double-column on one side of 8½"
x 11" white sheets. An author's Template
is provided as a MS Word file.
All submissions shall use MS Word with portrait page setup. The margins are 1"
on the left ½" on the right, top and bottom.
Length of each submission, including cover page, abstract, references, footnotes
and figures, should not exceed eight (8) pages.
Page one (1) shall indicate the title of the paper, author's full name and affiliation.
The paper title should be in all capital letters, 12 pt. Times New Roman boldface.
The space between the lines of the title should be 13 pt. or your computer's default
line spacing. The title should be centered on the page, with run-over lines also
centered.
The heading (e.g., ABSTRACT) should be in bold face and 10 pt. Times New Roman.
The text should be 10 pt. Times New Roman.
The first line of each paragraph should be indented ¼" from the last
margin, with all run-over lines being justified on the right and left margins.
There should be no extra space from the heading to the text that directly follows
it. The preferred spacing is two (2) line spaces.
Abstract no more than 150 words.
Illustrations should be in black ink.
Authors are urged to acknowledge their work to academia, employer, and industry,
as they deem appropriate.
In the preparation of the paper for other format items not covered above such as Tables, Figures, Mathematics, References, and Acknowledgements consult ASME Guidelines at http://www.asme.org/Publications/ConfProceedings/Author/Author_Resources.cfm.
INQUIRIES
AS THEY RELATE TO THE TECHNICAL CONTENT |
Forms
available on the web:
Notice of Intent to Participate:http://districts.asme.org/DistrictE/ETCE/2008_ECTC_Intent_To_Participate_Form.doc
Paper
Submittal/Authorization to Publish Form http://districts.asme.org/districte/ECTC/2008_ECTC_Authorization.doc
Author's Template http://districts.asme.org/districtse/ECTC/ECTC_2008_Template.doc