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April 4, 2008

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Welcome to the first seminar in the 2008 Mechatronics road show from Design News. 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 sum up the day's events to answer questions about where mechatronics is heading and what it means to you.

In the fall, we will examine automotive design and mechatronics in Detroit and manufacturing and
mechatronics in Chicago. So please join us for a day's worth of panels and workshops with real hands-on
education. 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

Ed Nicolson, Director of Development, Yaskawa

12:15 - 1:00

Lunch/Exhibitor Booths Open  

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


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