1st International Conference on Micromanufacturing

The 1^st International Conference on Micromanufacturing will take place September 13 -15 at the University of Illinois. Participants from the United States, Japan, Germany, China, South Korea, Switzerland, Scotland and France will gather to discuss advances in such areas as micromachining and –end milling, small-scale metal forming processes, modeling and simulation of cutting and other machining processes, multi-axis nanopositioning, microassembly and much more. MechSE professors Shiv Kapoor and Dick DeVor serve on the organizing committee for the conference, which will be held in the Levis Faculty Center. For more information on the conference, visit http://icomm.mie.uiuc.edu/index.php