WELCOME FROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS

摘要

We are pleased to welcome everyone to the 2016 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE) in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, August 21-24, 2016. This flagship meeting for the ASME Design Engineering Division and the Computers and Information in Engineering Division consists of the following 11 conferences: 1. 18th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies (AVT) 2. 36th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) 3. 42nd Design Automation Conference (DAC) 4. 13th International Conference on Design Education (DEC) 5. 21st Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference (DFMLC) 6. 28th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) 7. 40th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR) 8. 10th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems (MNS) 9. 12th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC) 10. 28th Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB) 11. 9th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference (BIOMED) Continuing the recent tradition, IDETC/CIE 2016 will co-locate with the ASME Additive Manufacturing + 3D Printing Conference & Expo (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.