On-line News Update

Welcome to the MED On-line News Update! This On-line News Update represents MED's continuing effort to provide its membership with quick communication on current events that pertain to manufacturing engineering. This web page will be updated as news becomes available. Since this is your news update, comments and suggestions are encouraged to make the news update as beneficial as possible. Also, if you are aware of events or topics that you would like to see included in this on-line news update, please e-mail the information to
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Wei Li, Newsletter Editor
December 18, 2007, 2007

Message from the Chair - Mike Molnar

Mike Molnar

Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to share that our division is active, strong, and growing in membership. Our premier technical conference – the International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) successfully completed its second year, hosted very capably by our friends at Georgia Tech. Seven technical committees remain active including new Bio Manufacturing committee. And our technical journal, the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, is…(read more)

News and Reports

• MSEC 2007 Post-Conference Report - by Robert Williams and John Roth
• Best Paper Award
• Best Organizer of Symposium & Session (BOSS) Award
• For conference speech slides and photos, visit http://www.pmrc.gatech.edu/IMSEC/ (courtesy of Steven Liang)
• IMECE 2007 Post-Conference Report
  by Brad Kinsey

Upcoming Events

• NSF CMMI Grantee Conference

2008 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference will be held January 7-10, 2008 in Knoxville, TN. For more information, please visit

http://www.cmmigranteeconference.org/index.htm

• NAMRC 36

The 36^th North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC 36) will be held May 20-23, 2008 at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. For more information, please visit

http://cidyt.mty.itesm.mx/namrc/

• MSEC 2008

MSEC 2008 will be held October 8-11 at Northwestern University. For more information, please visit

http://msec2008.northwestern.edu/

Special Announcements

• S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award nominations - nominate a deserving colleague

ASME International - Manufacturing Engineering Technical Division Leadership Team

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