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ASME
ECTC 2009
ASME Early Career Technical Conference
The Ninth Annual Technical Conference
A
forum for the presentation of in-progress or completed
work by
Early-Career Engineers, Mechanical Engineering Graduate
Students,
and Mechanical Engineering Early-Career Faculty
Sponsored by UA, FIU,
ASME Old Guard, ASME District F, Mississippi and Birmingham
Sections,
HOLTEC International and Unified Brands
October 2-3, 2009
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ASME
ECTC 2009 Post-Conference Message
ASME
ECTC Journal Vol. 8, No. 1, October 2009
(Note: large PDF file, 19MB)
ECTC
2009 Photo Album
ASME
ECTC Journal Vol.7, No. 1, October 2008
ASME
ECTC 2008 PHOTO ALBUM
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2009
ECTC Conference Committee
Dr.
K. R. Rao (Chair)
Dr. Lee Durbetaki (Treasurer)
Dr. Bob Taylor
John Mulvihill (District F)
Dr. Sabri Tosunoglu
Dr. Yong Tao
Technical
Committee
Dr.
Bob Taylor (Chair)
Dr. Sabri Tosunoglu (Co-Chair)
Dr. Yong Tao
Dr. Beth
Todd
Advisory
Committee
Reggie
Vachon (Past President)
Al Kurzenhauser (Past Governor)
Tal Webb (Past RVP)
Lee Crawford (Past RVP)
Doug Brown (VP)
Burt Dicht (Staff)
John Mulvihill (District F)
Richard Bunce (Divisions)
David Cook (Old Guard)
Bryan Eldridge (Members)
Joseph Rencis (MEDH)
Lanier Cauley (SSA)
Technical
Journal Editorial Board
Editor
Bob
Taylor
Co-Editors
Sabri
Tosunoglu
Yong X. Tao
Joseph Rencis
Ian Cobham
Associate
Editors: Faculty:
Obdulia Ley
P. Raju Mantena
Bob Pitz
Autar Kaw
Ram A. Goel
Shuh Jing (Ben) Ying
Dr. Zhanke Liu
Dr. Yuebin Guo
Associate
Editors: Professionals:
Lee Durbetaki
Richard Bunce
Bryan Eldridge
Lee Crawford
Gerald Jones
D. Sri Ram
William Adkins
Brian Grey
Ming Feng
Deepak Negandhi
William Long
Dr. Richa Mann
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ASME
EARLY CAREER TECHNICAL JOURNAL (ECTC:2009)
Reviewed and accepted papers presented at ASME ECTC 2009 will be
published in the ASME Early Career Technical Journal.
Papers that are submitted for ECTC:2009 which are not accepted
for publication in the ECTC:2009 Journal but based on review
by the Editorial Board are considered as a second tier of
papers for ECTC:2009 will be allowed to be presented at
the ECTC:2009.
In today's competitive
engineering job market, employers and engineering managers are
looking for the technical credentials that separate one candidate
from another. This is especially true for recent engineering
graduates and engineers in the very early stages of their careers.
The Conference
Coordinating Committee along with the sponsors, in keeping with
ASME's mission of "promoting and enhancing the technical
competency and professional well-being of our members," has
organized this conference as a forum for enabling early-career
engineers and 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 early-career
engineers to compete in an ever more demanding and changing global
market place by providing and developing such skills as verbal and
written communication, teamwork and independent decision-making,
system-level and integrated thinking, and Interdisciplinary skills,
and the demonstrated technical performance that will make them
standout among their peers.
Recognizing todays Engineering Market Place and the impact of
globalization, ECTC:2009 would be open to allied disciplines from
around the world. Inter-disciplinary applications having a semblance
and overlap with Mechanical Engineering topics would be welcome.
In providing conferences such as this, The
Conference organizers hope to establish a bond between ASME and the
early-career engineer that encourages continued participation in
ASME activities, increased use of ASME resources and programs, and
reinforces the concept of "ASME for a Lifetime."
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE
Participation
of graduate students, early-career engineers and early-career
faculty members from the United States, Canada and around the world
is encouraged in three categories:
Category A - Graduate Students
Graduate students, currently enrolled in a Mechanical Engineering
graduate program at a college or university can submit papers.
Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students involved in research
in association with their supervising faculty and/or graduate
student researchers can also submit papers as first author. For
details, contact the ECTC Chair.
Category B - Early-Career Engineers
Recent engineering graduates who received their B.S., M.S., or
Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering or related, as well as
allied, fields between January 2004 and May 2009 can submit papers
in this category. Related fields include those that interface with
varied aspects of mechanical engineering and its applications.
Category C - Early-Career Faculty Members
Early-Career faculty are also encouraged to submit papers.
THE
ASSIGNMENT
Submit papers,
subject to the guidelines listed in the "Paper Submission
Rules" Section, for presentation at the ASME Early Career
Technical Conference, October 2-3, 2009. See the link for ASME
Early Career Technical Journal PAPER FORMAT.
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THE TOPICS
Candidates may
choose any subject matter that they have worked on or submitted as
part of their academic or professional career. Topics may
encompass the full range of mechanical engineering described by the
38 technical divisions of ASME International.
Category A - Graduate Students
are encouraged to submit papers on a topic related to past,
current and on-going projects related to their academic work.
Category B - Early-Career Engineers are
encouraged to submit papers on topics related to their senior or
graduate projects, or a topic related to their current work
activity. (Please Note: If you are submitting a topic related to
work, be sure you have your company's approval).
Category C - Early-Career Faculty Members are
encouraged to submit papers on topics related to their area of
expertise.
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THE
REWARDS
Certificate of Appreciation: All authors of
accepted papers that comply with the submission rules will receive a
Certificate of Appreciation.
Registration: Accepted paper presenters will be
waived the entire amount of ECTC 2009 registration fees, which is
$50. Hence, paper presenters will receive complimentary
registration. In addition, paper presenters will get an honorarium
of $50. Arrangements have been made for accommodating 40 presenters
for free registration and the honorarium.
Presentation in ASME Early Career Technical
Conference: For ECTC 2009 there will be two levels of paper
acceptance. First level of paper acceptance will be papers that are
reviewed and selected for publication in the ASME Early Career
Technical Journal. The presenters of these papers are waived
registration fees of $50, in addition to the honorarium of $50.
First level presenters are restricted to forty (40) presenters.
Second level of paper acceptance will be papers that are deficient
for publication purposes but are still encouraged to present the
papers at the Conference, hoping it will help them articulate their
subject matter for subsequent Conferences. Second level of
presenters is restricted to ten (10) presenters and need to pay the
Conference Registration Fees of $50. However, the presenters will
get a Certificate of Appreciation for ECTC2009.
Presence at the entire ECTC 2009 proceedings on October
2nd and 3rd is a requirement for receiving ECTC 2009 Rewards.
Complimentary ASME ECTC Journal: Authors who have
papers selected for inclusion in the Journal will receive a
complimentary copy of the Journal on a specially prepared CD.
Publication at ASME Website: Accepted papers will
be posted at the ASME Conference Website for easy access and wider
dissemination of information. Hence, the conference papers will
enjoy wider exposure and availability to the engineering community.
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WHY
SHOULD YOU PARTICIPATE
This event provides an opportunity to gain experience that
engineers need in todays workplace to set you apart from other
engineers and enhance your career progression.
You
will develop and refine your research and writing skills.
Learn how to better prepare a
technical paper or presentation.
Learn multi-disciplinary
knowledge from other presenters.
You will gain invaluable
experience by practicing your presentation skills in front of a
small and friendly audience. This will prepare young engineers to
make successful presentations at other conferences and industrial
settings.
By authoring and presenting a
paper, you will be building your technical resume with a tangible
technical publication.
You will gain technical
recognition for yourself and your school or company.
You will meet and network
with other early-career engineers, faculty members, ASME senior
members and leadership and learn more about the profession.
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DEADLINES
ASME ECTC 2009 Conference: October 2-3, 2009
All queries about technical sessions should be made to Dr.
Robert Taylor, Chair Technical Sessions
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VENUE,
MAP AND DIRECTIONS
The conference will be held at the Assembly Hall (Room 110)
located in the AIME (Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of
Entrepreneurs) Building:
Assembly Hall, Room 110
The AIME Building
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
Click for the map of
Tuscaloosa, UA and AIME.
Directions from Birmingham to AIME:
- Start out on I-20 West towards Tuscaloosa.
- Take Exit #73/US 82.
- Turn right onto McFarland Blvd. E (Youll see a sign for
The University of Alabama).
- Go about 4 miles, take ramp to Jack Warner Pkwy.
- Go about 1 mile, turn left onto Hackberry Lane.
- Take a right at the red light.
- Take a left at the first intersection.
- AIME will be on your left.
- You may park anywhere you can find a spot.
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LODGING
Holiday Inn Express-University Mall 1120 Veterans
Memorial Pkwy
Tuscaloosa, AL 35404
Phone: (205) 464-4000
Fax: (205) 344-6654
Click here for the list of
hotels in Tuscaloosca.
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PAPER
SUBMISSION RULES
The
Conference Organization Committee will not accept papers which do
not comply with the submission rules.
Submit
your papers as defined in section titled Deadlines.
Make sure that paper preparation guidelines as summarized in
document ASME Paper
Format is closely followed.
Submit the Authorization
Form along with the final submission of your paper.
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FORMAT
Download the template file in MS doc format and follow
instructions for the required paper format:
ASME Paper Format
For further questions on formatting, refer to ASME paper
formatting guideline at the following link: http://www.asme.org/Publications/ConfProceedings/Author/Formatting_Paper.cfm
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AUTHORSHIP
The Conference will accept authorship in three categories:
Category A - Graduate Students: Authorship shall be confined
to the names of the student and faculty
member.
Category B - Early-Career Engineers: Authorship can
include the name of the entrant and any member of the company who
has assisted or monitored the effort.
CO-AUTHORSHIP WITH THE NAME OF A CO-WORKER OR EMPLOYER
IS ENCOURAGED.
Category C - Early-Career Faculty: Authorship can include
the name of the faculty and any student or collaborator who has
assisted in the research effort. Although faculty member's
presentation is encourgaed, a co-author may present the paper in
this category.
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 or Employer and
their location (name of place and State).
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AUTHOR'S
EXPENSES
The conference does not pay the expenses
incurred by authors in connection with the preparation of papers and
attendance at meetings to present them.
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CONFERENCE
ORGANIZERS RESPONSIBILITY
Statements
and opinions advanced in papers are to be understood as individual
expressions of their authors and not those of the Conference
Organizers.
PROPRIETARY/OWNERSHIP OF
PRINTED MATERIAL
While the authors can own
all proprietary rights to the material published in the Early Career
Technical Journal, it is recommended that acknowledgements be made
to the Early Career Technical Journal. This enables on-going
research material to be used for presentation/publication in the
Journal.
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REVIEW AND
ACCEPTANCE
It is the
policy of the Conference Organizers and The American Society of
Mechanical Engineers 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 by the Journal editor. All
manuscripts and author-prepared papers accepted are subject to
editing.
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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PAPER
REVIEW
The Early Career
Technical Journal editor will review papers 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 Papers for Publication in the Journal
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INQUIRIES ON LOCAL
ARRANGEMENTS
Dr. Bob Taylor, Chair
Conference Technical Committee
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Alabama
Box 870276
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
Email: btaylor2@eng.ua.edu
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INQUIRIES ON PAPER
SUBMISSION
Dr. Bob Taylor, Chair
Conference Technical Committee
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Alabama
Box 870276
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
Email: btaylor2@eng.ua.edu
Dr. Sabri Tosunoglu, Immediate Past
Chair
Conference Technical Committee
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Florida International University
Miami, Florida 33174
Dr. Yong Tao, Past Chair
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Florida International University
Miami, Florida 33174
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