Mechanical Engineering News An internet publication of the Mechanical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS

Convivium Details  The Mechanical Engineering Convivium is a Division supported dinner where all members and guests are invited to attend. The restaurant is selected usually by the Program Chair. There is no program. We all just meet and eat! It is quite possible that the restaurant where the Convivium will be held would not be selected at the time that ME Division members are registering for the conference. As per past tradition, the Convivium is usually held on Monday evening. All ME Division members are invited to join in this social event [guests of members are welcome]. If you want more information about the restaurant, please do a Google search on the restaurant's name (once it is known) and you will find lots of reviews of it. The cost to the attendee has been around $15 per person.

Annual Conference A Typical Schedule of Sessions (The following was the 2007 schedule) Session Day Session Type  Title 1166 Monday Technical Innovations for the Senior Year in the ME Curriculum 1466 Monday Business Mtg ME Dept Heads Mtg 1466  Monday  Technical Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction 1566 Monday Technical Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum 1766 Monday Dinner Convivium 2166 Tuesday Technical Improving ME Instructional Laboratories 2266 Tuesday Technical Meeting ABET Requirements 2466 Tuesday Luncheon R.C. Roe Awards Luncheon 2566 Tuesday Technical Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering I 2666 Tuesday Technical Outstanding Contributions to ME 3166 Wednesday Technical Introducing Active and Inductive Learning and Improving the Learning Curve in ME. 3266 Wednesday Technical Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education 3466 Wednesday Business Mtg ME Division Mtg 3566 Wednesday Technical Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II 3666 Wednesday Technical What's New in Dynamics? The schedule shown provides days of all or most ME Division sessions planned to take place at the Summer meetings. These are formally scheduled by the Program Chair of the Division. Notes: Many of our Technical sessions are referred to as TIME sessions. TIME stands for Trends in Mechanical Engineering. There are typically as few as three and as many as 9 TIME sessions; at least 4 papers are presented in each. (Back to Top.) The ME Department Heads Meeting is not an activity that all ME Division members are to attend, but the scheduling of this meeting is done by our Division. (Back to Top.) The Poster Session contains many papers that are presented as posters usually by the author(s). This forum allows for extensive interaction between interested observer and author. (Back to Top.) The Mechanical Engineering Convivium is a Division supported dinner where all members and guests are invited to attend. The restaurant is selected usually by the Program Chair. There is no program. We all just meet and eat! (Back to Top.) The Business Meeting is to be attended by the Officers of the Division to discuss planning and review the year's activities with reports. Everyone is invited to this meeting. (Back to Top.) The Ralph Coates Roe Award Luncheon and Business Meeting is open to everyone. A very short business program is conducted during lunch, followed by introduction of the Ralph Coates Roe Award recipient. The recipient then gives a talk on some positive aspect of engineering education. (Back to Top.)