ASME International

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2004 Design for Manufacturing Conference


General Information

The ninth annual Design for Manufacturing Conference will be part of the ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information In Engineering Conference, in Salt Lake City, Utah, from September 28 to October 2, 2004.

This conference is sponsored by the Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Committee of the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.


Panel on Six Sigma

David Kazmer will be chairing panel session on Six Sigma (Wednesday, September 29, from 3:45 to 5:15). This session will feature the following distinguished panelists:


Information for Accepted Papers

You can find the schedule of DFM sessions and the papers assigned to each session in the 2004 DFM Conference Sessions and Papers Schedule.

You can get the list of paper numbers for accepted papers from the following document: http://www.asmeconferences.org/DETC04/pdfs/DFM2004.pdf

Paper Submission System

The 2004 DFM conference used an online paper submission process called DFM eLane site for submitting draft papers.

Accepted papers need to be uploaded directly to ASME's web site. See the online submission instructions for information.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Papers Chair, Bill Wood, at bwood@umbc.edu, or the Program Chair, Jeffrey Herrmann, at jwh2@umd.edu.

Important Deadlines

Best Paper Award and Possible Journal Publication

Papers of special note will be further reviewed for the Best Paper award. Extended versions of papers receiving strong reviews will be forwarded for possible publication in ASME Journal of Mechanical Design or ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering.

Conference Organizers

Conference Chair
Prof. Caroline C. Hayes
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 626-8391
Fax: (612) 624-2344
Email: hayes@me.umn.edu
Program Chair
Dr. Jeffrey W. Herrmann
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-5433
Fax: (301) 314-9477
Email: jwh2@umd.edu
Papers Chair
Prof. Bill Wood
Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: (410) 455-3314
Fax: (410) 455-1052
Email: bwood@umbc.edu

This page last updated on August 6, 2008, by Jeffrey W. Herrmann. This site hosted by the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland.