IMECE Concurrent Special Technical Sessions

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16—5:25-6:25pmET

Utilizing Engineering Principles to Understand SARS-CoV-2 Transport, Infection, and Inactivation

This panel will address how mechanical engineers can help in medicine/COVID-19 using design principles and simulation.

 

Mechanical Engineering Education During COVID-19 Pandemic: Sharing Educational Strategies, Developing Outcomes, Lessons Learned, and Spring 21 Plans

This panel will provide a forum for sharing and discussing among the Mechanical Engineering educational community the current strategies for teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. The panelists, Heads/Chairs of Mechanical Engineering Programs, will kick-off with a summary of their current strategies followed by an open discussion with the participants. Different modalities are currently implemented at different institutions from fully remote to hybrid to in-person learning. Each of them will present new challenges and in some cases, new opportunities for revising teaching approaches and methods. One of the key aspects is offering meaningful hands-on projects and laboratory experiences which in many cases require frequent collaboration and interactions. The panelist will provide an overview of their learnings so far from the optics of their own institutions, including those aspects that are working well and those that remain a challenge. They will also provide perspective and potential plans for the next-term instruction.

 

ASME/IMECE — Information

This panel will describe how to get involved in ASME, e.g., divisions, and how to be involved with IMECE, including FAQs from ASME staff (e.g., what happens to your papers now.)

 

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18- 5:10-6:10pmET

This is an inaugural panel that brings world-class university thought leaders and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) members together, who will provide their perspectives on the frontiers of multi-faceted research and engagement needs and opportunities in the broader context of energy science and engineering.

 

 

The movie Hidden Figures captured the story of three brilliant African-American women at NASA - Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – who served as the brains behind Apollo 11 mission, one of the greatest operations in history of Space Technology. The entry of SpaceX has dramatically changed the of Space from a domain of government agencies and departments to private commercial entities and now is on the threshold of being the frontier of the next industrial revolution. A new breed of women engineers is likely to be the focal point of the emerging workforce. This panel aims to highlight the motivation of such women who have dared to enter in Space Technology as a career. Sharing the start and progression of their careers, the panelist would articulate stories of their education, research, roles and responsibilities. These women leaders would share their accomplishments and lessons leant in navigating multidisciplinary work environments. The panel seeks to create an awareness of an exciting realm of Space Technology that would in the next decade spread the human habitat to the far reaches of the solar system.