2006 IDETC/CIE Special Events Home Organizing Committee
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Organizing Committee

Vijay Kumar General Conference Chair 2006 ASME International DETC&CIE UPS Foundation Professor and Chairman, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics University of Pennsylvania 3330 Walnut Street Levine Hall, GRW 470   Philadelphia, PA 19104 E-mail: detc@seas.upenn.edu URL: http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/~kumar/ P: 215.898.8241 F: 215.573.2048

Jeffrey Ge	Michael Yu Wang	Gloria J. Wiens
Program Chair	Workshop Chair	Industry Track Chair
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook 161 Light Engineering Stony Brook, NY 11794-2300 E-mail: Qiaode.Ge(at)stonybrook.edu URL: cadcam.eng.sunysb.edu/~ge P: 631.632.1110 F: 631.632.8544	Professor Automation & Computer-Aided Engr. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Room 204 William MW Mong Bldg Shatin, NT, Hong Kong E-mail: yuwang(at)acae.cuhk.edu.hk URL: www.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~yuwang P: +91 852. 2609-8487 F: +91 852. 2603-6002	Associate Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engg University of Florida 231 MAE-A, P.O. Box 116250 Gainesville, FL 32611-6250 E-mail:  gwiens(at)ufl.edu URL: www.mae.ufl.edu/samm P: 352.392.0806 F: 352.392.7303
Mary Frecker	Pierre Larochelle	G.K. Ananthasuresh
Tutorials Chair	Student Affairs Chair	International Participation Chair
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering The Pennsylvania State University 326 Leonhard Building University Park, PA 16802 E-mail: mxf36(at)psu.edu URL: www.mne.psu.edu/faculty/frecker.html P: 814.865.1617 F: 814.865.9693	Associate Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Florida Institute of Technology 150 West University Blvd. Melbourne, FL 32901-6975 E-mail: pierrel(at)fit.edu URL : my.fit.edu/~pierrel/ P: 321.674.7274 F: 321.674.8813	Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering 106, New Mechanicall Engg. Bldg. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, INDIA E-mail: suresh(at)mecheng.iisc.ernet.in URL:www.mecheng.iisc.ernet.in/~suresh P: +91 80 2293 2334 F : +91 80 2236 0648
Venkat Krovi Publicity Chair Assistant Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo 318 Jarvis Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-4400 E-mail: vkrovi(at)bufffalo.edu URL: www.eng.buffalo.edu/~vkrovi P: 716.645.2593x2264 F: 716.645.3668	Andrew Murray Exhibits Chair Associate Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering The University of Dayton 300 College Park Dayton, Ohio 45469-0238 E-mail: murray(at)udayton.edu URL:www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/amurray/ P: 937.229.2201 F: 937.229.4766	James Schmiedeler Special Events Chair Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering The Ohio State University 228 Building 1, 650 Ackerman Road Columbus, Ohio E-mail: schmiedeler.2(at)osu.edu URL: mecheng.osu.edu/~schmiede/ P: (614) 292-4577 F: (614) 292-3163