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 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 graduate students, that will encourage continued participation
in ASME activities, increase use of ASME resources and programs, and reinforce
the concept of "ASME for a Lifetime." As
a participating graduate student, you have an opportunity to receive a
$200
"Best Paper Honorarium" based
on the quality of your research work and your presentation. One "Best
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AND WHEN
GSRIC
is held each year as part of the annual ASME Student Professional Development
Conference (SPDC). The 2007 SPDCs will be held April 13-14 in Edinburg,
Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
A GSRIC will be scheduled at each venue. WHO
CAN ATTEND?
The
conference attendance is open to all graduate and undergraduate mechanical engineering
students enrolled in the 2006-07 school year including those graduating in December
2006. However, only graduate students will make presentations. Papers
will be accepted only from graduate students who are dues paid members of ASME.
http://www.asme.org/Membership/
TRAVEL
REIMBURSEMENT
The
first 10 graduate student participants whose papers are accepted and are able
to attend the conference will be reimbursed up to $200 per student for
travel expenses, in accordance with ASME policies. 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. Your paper will not be eligible for the "Best
Paper Honorarium" if you do not attend.
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WHY
SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
If
you are an undergraduate ME student, attending the GSRIC will give you an idea
about the type of projects graduate students work on in order to obtain a M.S.
or Ph.D. 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 attend the presentations
to learn something new or take an active role by presenting your in-progress or
near-completion research work. If you decide to present your work, you 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. You will probably receive constructive comments from fellow students
and other faculty on how you can improve your research results. In addition, as
a participating graduate student, you have an opportunity to receive a $200
"Best Paper Honorarium" based on the quality of your research
work and your presentation. One "Best
Paper Honorarium" will be awarded at each GSRIC venue. Return
to Top PAPER
REVIEW PROCESS
Reviews are arranged by
schools of the students 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. 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 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
- Acknowledgment
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 by a review committee does not constitute acceptance for presentation
and publication. All manuscripts and author-prepared papers accepted are subject
to editing.
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- 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. See template for
instructions on naming file.
- All
submissions shall use MS Word 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 Acknowledgments consult the ASME
Authors Guidelines available under Publications on asme.org.
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HOW
TO PARTICIPATE
Graduate
students planning to take part in the 2007 GSRIC submit a notice of intent to
participate to Dr. Rick Couvillion (rjc@uark.edu) by January
26, 2007. Include your name, email address, school
name, title of presentation and a brief (less than 150 words) abstract. Click
Here to Download "Notice of Intent to Participate Form" (MS Word file). Completed
Paper Submittal and Authorization
to Publish a Technical Paper Form and full paper (prepared according
to ASME Authors 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 9, 2007.
Papers will be reviewed, and notification of acceptance, as well as the list of
first 10 graduate students (at each venue) eligible for travel reimbursement,
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PAPER
PUBLICATION
Official
proceedings will be published by ASME, giving you and your co-authors an archived
publication. AUTHORSHIP
- Authorship
can include names of the student(s) and a faculty member(s). However, a student must be the primary author;
funding and presentation shall be restricted to the primary student 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 their location (name of place and state).
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AND SOCIETY RESPONSIBILITY
Statements
and opinions advanced in papers are to be understood as individual expressions
of their authors and not those of the District or Society. PROPRIETARY/OWNERSHIP
OF PRINTED MATERIAL
While the
authors can own all proprietary rights to the material published in the Proceedings,
it is recommended that acknowledgments be made to the ASME GSRIC Proceedings.
This enables ongoing research material to be used for presentation/publication
in the journal. APPROVALS
AND CLEARANCE
It is the author's
responsibility to secure such company approvals as may be required. Government
clearance on Classified material should be obtained where necessary. If approvals
or clearances are involved, the original manuscript should note that these have
been obtained. Material not approved should be omitted from the manuscript. |
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INQUIRIES
AS THEY RELATE TO TECHNICAL CONTENT
Direct all
inquiries by e-mail to the GSRIC Chair.
Dr.
Rick Couvillion, Chair, GSRIC
University
of Arkansas
Email: rjc@uark.edu
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