Keynote Event at the 2015 Congress to Feature Artificial Heart Innovator

Registration is now open for the ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), the largest interdisciplinary mechanical engineering conference in the world. This year’s IMECE will feature a number of engaging special events, including a keynote presentation by artificial heart innovator Dr. William E. Cohn of the Texas Heart Institute.

IMECE 2015 will take place from Nov. 13 to 19 at the Hilton Americas Hotel and George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The conference is expected to draw more than 4,000 engineering and technology professionals from more than 75 countries and a multitude of fields including advanced manufacturing, aerospace, advanced energy, design engineering, materials and energy recovery, applied mechanics, power, nanotechnology, bioengineering and environmental engineering, among others.

Artificial heart innovator Dr. William E. Cohn will be featured during the Keynote Event on Nov. 16 at IMECE 2015.

Dr. Cohn, the director of the Center for Technology and Innovation, associate director of laboratory surgery research in the Center for Cardiac Support, and director of the Cullen Cardiovascular Research Laboratory at the Texas Heart Institute, will be the featured speaker at the conference’s Keynote Event on Monday, Nov. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Cohn, who is also a professor of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and an adjunct professor of bioengineering at both Rice University and the University of Houston, holds more than 90 U.S. patents and another 60 international patents for his innovative research and medical devices.

This year’s Congress program will also feature three Conference-Wide Plenary Sessions. Subhendu Ghosh, executive vice president for global engineering and design at Tata Technologies Ltd., will present the first plenary on Nov. 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Hai Wang, professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, will give the second plenary session on Nov. 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. John Elbon, vice president and general manager for Boeing Space Exploration, will present the final Conference-Wide Plenary Session on Nov. 19 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Attendees who register for IMECE 2015 by Aug. 10 will save up to $150 on the cost of registration. Visit www.asmeconferences.org/IMECE2015/ConfRegistration.cfm to register now and receive the discount.