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It's time to get out of our office and refresh yourself -- discover new markets, product ideas, places and people. Below you will find a list of events that are of interest to a wide segment of the community.
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March 10 - 11 Shiptech 2009, Biloxi, Miss., www.nmc.ctc.com.
March 10 - 12 Aviation Industry Expo, Las Vegas, Nev., www.AviationIndustryExpo.com.
March 11 - 12 The New Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, Product Liability Prevention and the Use of Chinese and Asian Suppliers, Rosemont Ill., http://randallgoodden.com.
March 16 - 18 High-Performance Computing Conference, New Orleans, La., Sponsored by NCMS and ATM, http://www.ncms.org.
March 17 - 18 Processing Mapping, Modeling & Analysis, Richmond, Va. Sponsored by the University of Virginia. The same conference wilol be held May 5-6 in Falls Church, Va.: 434-982-2779.
March 30 - April 2 WESTEC, Los Angeles, Calif., www.westeconline.com.
March 30 - April 2 Commercial Technologies for Maintenance Activities: Motoring Through Technology Transition, Detroit, Mich., https://www.ncms.org/SSL/ Symposium2009/registration.htm.
March 30 - April 3 National Hydrogen Association Conference and Expo, Columbia, S.C., www.hydrogenconference.org.
April 1 - 2 MicroManufacturing Conference Exhibits, Minneapolis, Minn., www.sme.org/micro.
April 1 - 2 Nanomanufacturing Conference, Minneapolis, Minn., www.sme.org/nanomanufacturing.
April 16 - 17 Process Improvement & Innovation, Charlottesville, VA. Sponsored by the University of Virginia: 434-982-2779.
April 19 - 22 American Machine Tool Distributors' Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, Calif., www.amtda.org.
April 29 - 30 Sustainable Manufacturing Summit, Chicago, Ill. Sponsored by the National Council for Advanced Manufacturing: http://www.nacfam.org.
April 29 - May 1 Composite Manufacturing, San Diego, Calif., www.sme.org/composites.
May 4 - 5 Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy, MIT, Cambridge, http://mitsloan.mit.edu/exceed.
May 6 - 7 Supply Chain Strategy and Management, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed.
May 6 - 8 SMMA The Motor & Motion Association's Spring Management Conference, San Diego, Calif.: www.smma.org.
May 7 Adapting To Existing Circumstances: A Conference on Resources and Strategies, Elgin Community College, Elgin, Ill., 847-741-5660.
May 12 - 14 Rapid Product Development & Manufacturing Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., www.sme.org/rapid.
May 12 - 14 Plant Maintenance and Design Engineering, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, www.pmds.ca.
May 14 - 16 Foundry & Diecasting Industries 2009, Hong Kong, www.worldtradeexpo.com.hk.
May 18 - 20 Optomism: Photonics Products for Green Tech., Santa Clara, Calif., www.optomismshow.com.
May 19 - 21 EASTEC, W. Springfield, Mass,. www.easteconline.com.
May 19 - 22 North American Mfg. Research Conference, Clemson, S.C., www.sme.org/namrc.
May 25 - 29 Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue, Rotterdam, Netherlands, http://www.icaf2009.nl.
June 2 - 4 FABTECH Mexico, Monterrey, Mexico, www.fabtechmexico.com.
June 3 - 5 IMPAX Congress, San Diego, Calif., www.impaxcongress.com.
June 7 - 9 Society of Manufacturing Engineers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Penn. www.sme.org/annualmeeting.
June 8 - 9 Lean and Green Summit, Savannah, Ga., http://www.leanandgreensummit.com.
June 8 - 10 Eleventh International Conference on Optimum Design of Structures and Materials in Engineering, Algarve, Portugal, http://www.wessex.ac. uk/conferences/2009/opti09/index.html.
June 9 - 11 Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements for Surface Effects and Contact Mechanics, Algarve, Portugal, www.wessex.ac.uk /conferences/2009/secm09/index.html.
June 15 - 17 Composite Structures, Porto, Portugal, http://www.fe.up.pt/ICCS15
June 16 - 17 Manufacturing Workforce Symposium, Chicago, Ill., www.sme.org.
June 16 - 18 Western Manufacturing Technology Show, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, www.wmts.ca.
June 17 - 18 TRANSLOG -- Transportation and Logistics -- First Annual Conference, Hamilton, Canada, http://mitl.mcmaster.ca/translog/index.html.
June 17 - 19 Computational Methods and Experiments in Materials Characterization, New Forest, UK, http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences /2009/mc09/index.html.
June 18 - 19 Manufacturing Education Transformation Summit, www.merconline.net/wiki.
June 24 - 26 Simulation of Electrochemical Processes, Bologna, Italy, http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2009/ecor09/index.html.
July 21 - 22 ASME Power 2009, Albuquerque, N.M.: http://www.asmeconferences.org/power09/.
September 9 - 13 U.S. Asia Business Forum, Los Angeles, www.usasiabusinessforum.com
September 22 - 23 PLM Road Map 2009, Detroit, Mich., Contact, Cheryl Peck, 251-433-7049, http://cpd-associates.com/index.cfm?content=include_conference09.cfm.
The Association for Manufacturing Excellence lists dozens of conferences on its Web site: http://www.ame.org.
MIT's Sloan School runs dozens of interesting courses and seminars for executives: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/epp/date.php.
The International Quality and Productivity Center sponsors dozens of conferences on Six Sigma, Lean and many other topics: http://www.iqpc.com/
The Surface Mount Technology Association runs a variety of conferences throughout the year: http://www.smta.org/news/smta_calendar/calendar.cfm.
The Lean Enterprise Institute has a variety of conferences: http://www.lean.org.
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