WELCOME FROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS

摘要

We are pleased to welcome everyone to the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE) Conference in Boston, MA, USA, August 2-5,2015. This flagship international meeting, for the ASME Design Engineering Division and the Computers and Information in Engineering Division, consists of the following fourteen conferences: 17th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies (AVT) 35th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC) 12th International Conference on Design Education (DEC) 20th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC) 27th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) 2015 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA) 39th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR) 9th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS) 11th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC) ASME 2015 Power Transmission and Gearing Conference (PTG) 23rd Reliability, Stress Analysis, and Failure Prevention Conference (RASFP) 27th Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB) 8th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices (BIOMED) This year, IDETC/CIE 2015 will co-locate with the new ASME 2015 Additive Manufacturing + 3D Printing Conference (AM3D) to highlight emergent technologies that impact the critical engineering issues of product design and development, manufacturing, and the management and integration of information systems throughout the product life-cycle.