Register Today for the Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum

The ASME Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum in Buffalo, N.Y., convenes in less than a month, so now is the time to register. Attendees who register by July 31 will save $100 and be entered into a drawing to win a MakerBot 3D printer to be awarded by MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis. If you are unable to attend the event, you can still participate by viewing complimentary live webcasts of five of the Forum’s sessions.

The Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum, to be held Aug. 17-20 at the Buffalo-Niagara Convention Center, will feature a variety of sessions, workshops, a student competition and special tracks designed to acquaint attendees to the full potential of advanced manufacturing solutions. The Forum, which will be co-located with the ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, will provide a venue for participants to learn about the emerging technologies, applications, and solutions that will be required to compete in the global advanced design and manufacturing marketplace.

The four-day conference, to be hosted by the University at Buffalo, will feature multiple technical and panel sessions covering such topics as design, advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, medical devices and life sciences, computer-aided engineering, innovation and entrepreneurship, and robotics. The Forum will also encompass a workshop, “Scalable Manufacturing: Benchmarks, Standards and Metrics for Fabrication and Integration of 3D Structures,” and the final round of the inaugural ASME Innovative Design Simulation Challenge on Aug. 17; two keynote events on Aug. 18; and a career fair featuring two roundtable discussions on Aug. 20.

For those who cannot attend the conference, five of the sessions will be webcast live from the meeting: “Advances in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE): Big Data and the Industrial Internet” on Aug. 18 from 2:20 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.; “Medical Devices and Life Sciences: Innovative Medical Device Prototyping – 3D Printing and Biocompatibility” on Aug. 19 from 2:20 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.; “Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Robotics in Advanced Manufacturing” on Aug. 20 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:20 p.m.; “Engineering for Global Development Impact Forum” on Aug. 20 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and the “Engineering for Global Development Panel” on Aug. 20 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The webcasts are complimentary, but registration is required. All webcasts will be broadcast in Eastern Daylight Time. Visit www.asme.org/events/advanced-design-manufacturing-impact-forum/live-webcast to sign up now.

For more information on the Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum, and to register, visit the Forum’s webpage at www.asme.org/events/advanced-design-manufacturing-impact-forum.