Register Now! --
ASME Mechanical Engineering Education Conference
March 5-9, 2004, Clearwater Beach, FL



Visit the 2004 Mechanical Engineering Education Conference website


2004 Biennial Mechanical Engineering Department Study
We are pleased to invite you to take part in the 2004 ASME Biennial Mechanical Engineering Department Study. Please download the
scratch survey
(the on-line data collection form doesn't print out
very well), and assemble the data at your leisure. When you have
collected all the information, enter your responses by December 15 into the on-line form at https://secure.asme.org/bmedbs/survey.cfm.


ExcEED Teaching Workshops
for Engineering Faculty

March 25-27, 2004
Santa Clara, CA

September 16-18 , 2004
Boston, MA

For the past two years, ASME has been presenting the highly successful Essential Teaching Seminars. In 2004, we will work with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) to bring the Excellence in Engineering Education (ExcEEd) Teaching Workshops to all engineering educators. Join the ranks of faculty members who have already benefited!

Lucy and Charles W.E. Clarke Scholarship
To recognize departmental support of ASME student section activities
The ASME Auxiliary and ASME Foundation award scholarship funds
to academic departments. The department heads identify incoming
freshmen to receive the scholarship. Contact: soukupd@asme.org

How Student Sections Can Help Achieve Departmental Goals & Objectives --
View both presentations by Walter O'Brien, Chair, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech.

Presentation #1 (135K) (Powerpoint Show)
Presentation #2 (1.04MB) (PDF presentation with photos)

Life Sciences & Engineering --
The convergences of the life sciences and engineering "will
define the applications of scientific progress" in biotechnology in
the 21st century. ASME's Committee on Issues Identification has
released its final report on the increasing interactions between the
life sciences and engineering.

You can order this publication online.

New Directions in Mechanical Engineering
Report of a Workshop organized by the "Big-Ten-Plus"
Mechanical Engineering Department Heads, January 2002

View Workshop Report ....... View Workshop Presentations


Downloadable Publications
2002 ASME Biennial Mechanical Engineering Department Benchmarking Survey

ASME Study on the Initial Impact of EC2000 on M.E. Departments


For more continuing education courses, products and services, visit the ASME Continuing Education Institute.