The purpose of this award is to provide funding offsetting registration and travel expenses to enable 83 undergraduate and graduate students to attend the 2013 joint conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (ASME MSEC) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers North American Manufacturing Research Conference (SME NAMRC). The attending students will participate in the conference by giving technical papers, participating in a poster session to display their research, and taking part in a design competition. The conference will be held June 10-13, 2013, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The funding opportunity will be broadly announced, affording students ample notice and time to apply. Applications will be reviewed by committee, and $300 in support will be provided to each winning student.
The students who attend this conference will have a chance to see the latest work in their respective fields and to talk to the investigators directly. This will both give them a better perspective on the world of manufacturing and better prepare them to complete their thesis research. There is also an international aspect to the conference, enabling the students to become more internationally oriented. The benefits to the nation in the long term will include a better educated manufacturing engineering workforce.
The purpose of this award is to provide funding to offset registration and travel expenses to enable 83 undergraduate and graduate students from US universities to participate in the co-located conference event consisting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2013 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), and the 41st Annual North American Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC) sponsored by the North American Manufacturing Institution of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (NAMRI/SME). The attending students supported by this grant participated in the event by giving technical papers, participating in a poster session to display their research, and taking part in a design competition. The conference was held June 11-14, 2013, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Applications were reviewed according to a defined set of metrics, and registration fees were paid for each selected student. The supported students who attended this conference were exposed to the latest work in their respective fields and were able to network with the investigators directly. Additionally, students were able to attend unstructured discussion sessions, structured panel sessions, and an early career workshop entitled "Research Professions in Academia, Industry & National Laboratories: An Early Career Forum" where senior representatives from industry, academia and national labs presented aspects of careers in their respective fields and held breakout sessions for student questions. These activities have given them a better perspective on the world of manufacturing and better prepared them to complete their thesis research. There is also an international aspect to the conference, enabling the students to become more internationally oriented. The benefits to the nation from this project in the long term include a better-educated manufacturing engineering workforce.
