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Dr. Paliwal Elected To National and International ASME Leadership Positions

Assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Manish Paliwal was recently elected to two positions within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He was elected to be the Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) Publicity Chair for the upcoming international conference. He also serves as the current Technical Committee (TC) Chair to the Model Identification and Intelligent Systems (MIIS) after being elected to that role at the 2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Annual Conference in Boston. MIIS is a part of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) of ASME.

His responsibility as DSCC Publicity Chair is to promote the conference. This conference is sponsored by the DSCD of ASME International, and will be held October 31 through November 2, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia, jointly with ASME/Bath Fluid Power Symposium sponsored by the Fluid Power Systems & Technology Division (FPSTD) of ASME International. All those interested in dynamic systems and control and fluid power, are encouraged to attend this conference. Students coming to present their work at the conferences organized by the DSCD (Annual ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, and American Control Conference) are provided support using the DSCD and NSF funds.

 

Dr Paliwal would like to announce some of the key dates:

  • Deadline for all submissions and proposals: March 15, 2011
  • Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 15, 2011
  • Final manuscript submission deadline: June 15, 2011
  • Deadline for Student Travel Support: September 26, 2011

Dr. Paliwal was also elected to be the TC Chair to the MIIS. As Chair, some of his duties include annually publishing: accomplishments of the committee in the past year, significant accomplishments of the members, planned activities for the next year featured articles, collaborations with other committees and organizations, and other information of importance to the members. The Chair must also consider and vote on the nomination of a yearly award for contributions to modeling and identification (Henry Paynter Award) and intelligent systems (Devendra P. Garg Award) among other things. He is also responsible for maintaining his membership’s high level of activity by holding meetings at national conferences and bring funding, publication, and other opportunities to the attention of our members, and sponsoring special issues of publications from ASME, IEEE, etc. that help in the recruitment effort. He must also maintain a website that serves as a record for his Committee’s activities and as a repository for research, teaching, or other materials that serve his members.

Dr. Paliwal has been associated with the DSCD for a long time now and was active within its MIIS TC as well. He has organized symposiums, chaired numerous sessions for the MIIS TC of the DSCD and also served as the Newsletter editor for the DSCD during 2006-07. For 2010-2012 terms, he was nominated and appointed as the DSCD Student Travel Grants Coordinator. He was also previously elected the Secretary of the MIIS Technical Committee in the 2008 DSCC at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and continued in that role till 2010.