ME Today
September 2011 Issue

Arthur L. Williston Medal

Winning Paper: Refreshable
Braille Display for Teaching
Geometry to Visually
Challenged

The Williston Award is presented annually by ASME to the student engineer recent graduate who authors the best acceptable paper in the area civic service.

On ASME.ORG

Podcast: Career Advice for
Young Engineers from the
Executive Level

ASME Executive Director Thomas Loughlin discusses career prospects for mechanical engineers in the current economy and the role of professional associations in career development.

Going Global

The 2012 ASME IShow

ASME IShow is expanding its reach, soliciting international student team applications worldwide for the first time. The ASME IShow is a platform for top collegiate teams to compete for over $20K in seed money to further develop their product.

2011 ASME Foundation
Scholarship Winners

The ASME Center for Education, through its Scholarship Committee and funded by generous contributions to the ASME Foundation, presented sixty (60) ASME Foundation Scholarships this year, paying out a total of over $168,000.

Other Related Topics:

ASME Foundation Student Loans
Application Postmark Deadline: October 15 for Winter/SpringLoan Cycle

Graduate Student Fellowships
Application Postmark Deadline: October 15

ASME Early Career Engineer
Networking Meetup

Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado
Convention Center
Denver • Sunday, November 13

Meetup with other engineers with similar interests to network professionally and make new connections with ASME leadership and/or renew past friendships. RSVP on Facebook!

Held in conjunction ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition

Nano Educational Series:

Assessment Based Courses

Following the successful launch of ASME's Nano Educational Series Podcasts -- we are now pleased to offer the Nano Educational Series – Assessment Based Courses!

Other Related Topics:

• Student Leadership Seminars – Training the leaders of tomorrow!
• IGTI Presents: ASME Turbo Expo – Webinars – U.S. and International Training Weeks

ASME Seeks New Faces of
Mechanical Engineering

Be the New Face of Mechanical Engineering -- Both Engineering Professionals and Students receive recognition as part of the annual celebratory E-Week (February 19-25, 2012).

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Leading Volunteers Toward
Innovation

How does innovation happen -- ASME volunteers got first hand knowledge from independent scholar and futurist, Joel Barker, learning some key techiques to identify innovation and how to think of new and innovative ideas.

ASME WISE Interns Study
International Technology Development,
Solar Technologies During
Washington Summer

Julian Leland, a rising senior at Swarthmore College, and Maxwell Micali, a rising senior at Yale University, served as ASME's interns in the 2011 Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program and presented their public policy papers on Capitol Hill.