Mechatronics Expo 2008: May 13 - Santa Clara, CA

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Welcome to the first seminar in the 2008 Mechatronics road show. Our goal with these free one-day seminars is to educate and teach you about how the mechatronics approach to design can help engineers get the job done better, more quickly and at lower cost. Top editors from Control Engineering, Test & Measurement World, EDN and Design News as well as SMU Engineering Dean Geoffrey Orsak will answer questions about where mechatronics is heading and what it means to you. Hope to see you in Santa Clara!

-- John Dodge, Design News editor-in-chief

Mechatronics Expo 2008: Event Overview

8:00 - 9:00	Registration/Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00	Exhibitor Booths Open
9:00 - 9:05	Welcome by John Dodge, Chief Editor, Design News
9:05 - 9:45	Keynote: The Dreams of Engineers: What’s next? Geoffrey Orsak, Ph.D., Dean of SMU Engineering School
9:45 - 10:30	Micromechatronics -A vital technology for industrialized nations in the new century Tai-Ran Hsu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, San Jose State University
10:30 - 10:45	Break/Exhibitor Booths Open
10:45 - 11:30	Panel: Mechatronic Engineering Program at CSU - Chico Dr. Ramesh Varahamurti, Program Director, Mechatronic Engineering/Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronic Engineering, CSU - Chico Dale Word, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CSU - Chico Dr. Jim Tan-atichat, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronic Engineering, CSU - Chico
11:30 - 12:15	Servo Network Trends in Mechatronic Systems Ed Nicolson, Ph.D., Director of Development, Yaskawa
12:15 - 1:00	Lunch/Exhibitor Booths Open Lunch Session: Design and Testing of Autonomous Automobiles and Helicopters Gabe Hoffman, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford Racing Team Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
1:00 - 1:45	NI/Solidworks – New Alpha Mechatronics Toolkit
1:45 - 2:30	Dassault Systèmes – Understanding Product Lifecycle Management and the Emergence of Mechatronics
2:30 - 2:45	Break/Exhibitor Booths Open
2:45 - 3:30	Autodesk – Digital Prototyping for Mechatronics
3:30 – 4:15	PTC – MCAD-ECAD Integration
4:15 - 5:00	Panel: John Dodge, Chief Editor, Design News Rick Nelson, Editor, EDN/Test & Measurement World Charlie Masi, Senior Editor, Control Engineering Dr. Geoffrey Orsak, Ph.D. Dean of SMU Engineering School