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IMECE® 2020
Virtual Conference, Online

Virtual Conference: November 16 – 19, 2020

Hackathon

2020 ASME-CIE Hackathon: Identifying, Extracting, Analyzing Value from Large Unstructured Data Sets in Mechanical Engineering

Virtually November 14-15, 2020

In conjunction with IMECE 2020

Learn about the IMECE Hackathon Winners!

Sponsored by

ASME Computers & Information in Engineering Division (CIE)
ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED)
ASME IMECE / Advanced Manufacturing Track (AMT) &
ASME Technical Events and Content (TEC) Sector Council

ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) Centennial Celebration Event

Please download the ASME Hackathon 2020 flyer here and share it with your friends!

For more details and sample datasets, please visit the Hackathon GitHub

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!  

  • Limited Capacity
  • $25 for the Hackathon Event
  • Please click on the “Committee Meetings & Special Events” tile on the Registration Page.  Once in, you will have the option to select "Student Hackathon Registration Only"

Important Dates:

  • Sign up DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 12, 11:59 PM EDT
  • November 14, afternoon: Hackathon kick-off
  • November 15, afternoon: Due for Hackathon deliverables
  • November 15, evening: Awarding ceremony

*By registering for the Student Hackathon, you agree to allow your information to be shared with other registrants and volunteer leaders for the purpose of communicating event information and intra team communication.

Introduction and Agenda

The ASME-CIE 2020 Hackathon is the first Hackathon held by ASME and is expected to become one of the signature events of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). The first Hackathon event was held on the 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. See more detail here. This second Hackathon event is co-located with the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE). This second Hackathon is sponsored by the ASME Technical Events and Content (TEC) Sector Council, and co-funded by the ASME Computers & Information in Engineering Division (CIE), the ASME Manufacturing Engineering (MED) Division, and the IMECE / Advanced Manufacturing Track (AMT) with the goal to build multi-stakeholder (society-university-industry) relations and impact the quality and quantity of data-skilled mechanical engineers.

IMECE Hackathon Problem Statement

 

Date and Time (Eastern Time)

Agenda
DAY 1
November 14		 2:00 – 3:00 pm Online check-in and virtual platform testing
3:00 – 4:15 pm Hackathon kick-off and introduction of topic areas
4:15 – 5:15 pm Team formation and meeting with your mentors
5:15 – 8:30 pm Problem formulation (Tutorial and Q&A session will run in parallel from 6:30 to 7:30 pm)
8:30 – 10:30 pm Hackathon continues; pitching ideas based on the preliminary proposal/project plan (Tutorial and Q&A session will run in parallel from 9:00 to 10:00 pm)
DAY 2
November 15		 10:00 – 10:15 am Day 2 kick-off and judging criteria recap
10:15 – 1:00 pm Hackathon pitch time (Tutorial and Q&A session will run in parallel from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm)
1:30 – 4:30 pm Hackathon pitch time (Tutorial and Q&A session will run in parallel from 3:00 to 4:00 pm)
4:30 – 5:00 pm Project submission
5:15 – 7:30 pm Project presentations
7:30 – 8:00 pm Judge discussion and deliberation
8:15 – 9:00 pm Awards and closing ceremony

 

Award Information

  • First Place: $2,000
  • Second Place: $1,000
  • Third Place: $500

Note: Teams will be judged in each problem tropic area, and awardees will be selected separately.

Eligibility

Both students and non-students (e.g., researchers from national labs, professionals from industry, etc.) are welcome to attend the Hackathon and experience the exciting competitions. Participants can register for the event as (1) a student or (2) a non-student. Note: non-student groups include any group with a non-student member, even in the case when several members of the group are students. Each group category will be independently assessed and will receive their own rankings within the group category.

Theme

Big Data is defined as “large volumes of high velocity, complex and variable data that require advanced techniques and technologies to enable the capture, storage, distribution, management, and analysis of the information.” However, it is reported that majority of the data collected (more than 80%) is unstructured data in the form of image, video, audio, undefined text and numbers. This is true in many mechanical engineering subfields where sensors are ubiquitous and digitization is pervasive, for example, when analyzing Amazon reviews to elicit customer preferences in support of engineering design, and using images of 3D printing in support of manufacturing prognosis. While the value of unstructured data is evident by the vigor and velocity with which new tools are being created in the private sector to extract this hidden value, in mechanical engineering, the question of how to leverage the power of unstructured data to benefit product design and development, manufacturing and complex systems engineering is still yet fully answer.

The ASME-CIE Hackathon attempts to provide an open mechanism for researchers to explore new statistical and machine-learning techniques appropriate for the use of unstructured text, images, audio etc. in design, manufacturing and systems engineering, and on the other hand, to develop new educational pathways to train the next generation of data-skilled mechanical engineers. The participants will have the opportunity to learn and experience various data visualization, data mining, and machine learning methods to develop automated processes for:

  • Identification of patterns within the unstructured data that are predictive of valuable or negative attributes.
  • Use of valuable extracted content to improve predictive models.
  • Removal or correction of negative content associated with errors, bias, or privacy.

All IMECE 2020 participants are welcome to attend the Hackathon. Particularly, the second 2020 ASME-CIE Hackathon problems are highly related to the following session topics. More details can be found in the Hackathon Problems.

  • Additive Manufacturing (Topic 2)
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation for Advanced Manufacturing (Topic 9)
  • Variation Simulation and Design for Assembly Description (Topic 10)
  • Robotics and Automation in Advanced Manufacturing (Topic 11)
  • Laser-Based Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing (Topic 12)
  • Digital Manufacturing for Industry 4.0 Applications (Topic 13)

Teamwork

Hackathon is a teamwork. You do not need to have all the skills – that’s what TEAMWORK is for! Please join us if you have:

  • Creative or innovative ideas
  • Business or marketing talents
  • Data science or statistics concepts
  • Domain knowledge and critical thinking
  • Computational linguistics skills
  • Programming skills

Hackathon Team and Presentation

  • All participants must be registered by November 10, 2020. Everyone will be placed in a team up to three members. You may form your own. All implementation must be based on the original work.
  • Each Hackathon team will continue their own meetings via their own chosen platform of choice and hacking exercises during the two days between 10/14/20 and 10/15/20.
  • Each team needs to present their teamwork including the technical approach and the results.

*By registering for the Student Hackathon, you agree to allow your information to be shared with other registrants and volunteer leaders for the purpose of communicating event information and intra team communication.

Thanks and Recognition

The following individuals have offered advice, suggestions, support, and help in different ways for the ASME-CIE Hackathon. We appreciate everyone’s commitment to this exciting event for our students and our community.

  • ASME-CIE Hackathon Committee: Zhenghui Sha, Yan Lu, Zhuo Yang, Chris McComb, Dehao Liu, Faez Ahmed, Anh Tran, Bryan O’Halloran Dazhong Wu, and Binyang Song
  • ASME Staff support: Barbara Zlatnik, Jessica Barnes, Andrew Koleba, and Timothy Graves
  • IMECE Conference Organizing Committee: Chris Depcik and Marriner Merrill
  • MED Division Executive Committee Representatives: William Emblom and Radu Pavel
  • TEC Council representatives: Gloria Wiens (DMM), Stephen Reese (DMM) and Mina Pelegri (ESS)
  • Judging Team: Lucia Mirabella: Siemens; Anant Mishra: Siemens; Brandon Lane: NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology; Yan Lu: NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology; Michael Lawton: Boeing: The Boeing Company; Rahul Rai: The University at Buffalo – SUNY; Dazhong Wu: University of Central Florida