WELCOME FROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS

摘要

We are pleased to extend a warm welcome to the ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering (IDETC/CIE) Conference in Buffalo-Niagara, NY, USA from August 17-20 2014. This flagship international meeting, for the ASME Design Engineering Division and the Computers and Information in Engineering Division, consists of the following twelve conferences listed below: 1. 16th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies (AVT) 2. 34th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) 3. 40th Design Automation Conference (DAC) 4. 11th International Conference on Design Education (DEC) 5. 2nd Biennial International Conference on Dynamics for Design (DFD) 6. 19th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC) 7. 26th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) 8. 38th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR) 9. 8th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS) 10. 10th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC) 11. 26th Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB) 12. 7th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices (BIOMED).