Submit a Poster Abstract for the Next Micro and Nano Forum

Shinnosuke Inoue of the University of Washington presented his team's poster, "Rapid Detection of Drug Resistance," at the 2013 Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum in San Diego, Calif. Videos of his presentation and two other Forum poster presentations are currently posted on ASME.org.

Poster abstracts are now being accepted for the next Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum, to be held during the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition this November in Montreal, Canada.

Each year, the Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum, which is sponsored by the ASME Nanotechnology Institute and the ASME NanoEngineering Council, provides engineering students with the opportunity to present their technical posters to hundreds of Congress attendees, including ASME leaders and representatives from industry and academia. The 2014 Congress will take place from Nov. 14 to 20 at Montreal’s Palais des Congres convention center.

As micro- and nano-scale phenomena and processes are widely explored across many ASME divisions to create new applications and to improve the existing engineering systems, the Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum draws ASME members from a number of the Society’s technical divisions, as well as professionals from a variety of engineering disciplines.

An award for best poster will be presented in each of seven categories: applied mechanics, bioengineering, fluid mechanics, electronic and photonic packaging, materials, MEMS, and heat transfer. Winners will be selected by an award selection panel consisting of experts from industry, academia and government funding agencies. Each award recipient will receive a certificate signed by the ASME president, and several of the awards will include cash prizes.

Last November, 130 engineering students were able to present their technical posters to more than 500 Congress attendees at the 2013 Micro and Nano Forum.

Students who are interested in presenting a poster at the Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum can get an idea of what to expect at the event by viewing videos of some of the posters presented at last year’s Forum, which was held at the 2013 Congress in San Diego. Currently, three of the 2013 Forum poster presentations — “Rapid Detection of Drug Resistance,” “Vascular Stents with Surface Nanopatterning,” and “Deformability-Based Separation of Cancer Cells” — are available on ASME.org. The Emerging Technologies department expects to post four more of the poster presentations within the next couple of weeks.

To participate in the Forum, students should submit a one-page abstract of their poster — including the poster’s title, authors, and affiliations — via the 2014 ASME Congress web page www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2014, indicating their submission is for Congress Track 17-15. Abstracts should also include the name of the author presenting the poster, the presenting author's academic status (undergraduate, graduate, or post-doc), and in which category the poster should be entered. The deadline to submit a poster abstract is July 19.

The organizing committee for the 2014 Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum consists of chair Ronggui Yang of the University of Colorado at Boulder, co-chairs Samit Roy of the University of Alabama and Umut Gurkan from Case Western Reserve, and past-chair Stuart Williams of the University of Louisville.

For more information on the 2014 Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum, contact Christine Reilley, ASME Emerging Technologies, by e-mail at reilleyc@asme.org.