The Organizing Committee of SPIE's 16th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring invites you to attend what promises to be an exciting meeting. This unique symposium offers many opportunities to network with colleagues from a variety of disciplines in academia, industry, and government from all over the world. Over the last decade, this meeting has grown from small beginnings in the then-emerging field of smart systems into a premier symposium. This symposium has been the incubator for the emergence of the field of electroactive polymers, also known as artificial muscles, for which the armwrestling contests is now one of its exciting annual events. Complementary techniques and application of smart structures and materials have been discussed in the joint symposium with NDE and Health Monitoring for the past four years. This event has developed into one of the world's most important events discussing the monitoring of structural integrity and adaptive/intelligent structures. Now, both symposia will be integrated into a single event. This integration offers new avenues for collaboration and interaction opportunities to bring more advances and address greater challenges that lie ahead. Such challenges include areas of homeland security, and benefiting from exciting fields of biomimetics, nanotechnologies and others.
The symposium covers all aspects of the evolving fields of materials, enabling technologies, sensor/actuator design and fabrication, MEMS, NEMS and other micro-, nano- and bio-electronic devices, biomimetics, signal processing and control, systems concepts, wireless sensors and sensor networks, modeling and simulation, and applications of these technologies to cover the whole spectrum of life in the 21st century including commercial, medical, aerospace, military uses and many others. It also includes several parallel conferences on a range of topics related to NDE, health monitoring, safety, security, characterization of materials, and detection of materials defects and degradation, application of micro- and nanomaterial systems, health monitoring of structural and biological systems, NDE for aerospace materials and applications, and NDE technologies for homeland security.
The symposium is organized in ten parallel conferences. It will bring together emerging technologies and advanced research in instrumentation, sensing, and measurement science with progressive management and diagnostic approaches and smart systems. Engineers and researchers from government, military, academia and the commercial sector will discuss the current status and future directions of smart structures and materials, NDE, and health monitoring. Case studies, emerging research agendas, and innovative new technologies will be presented.
We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!
Symposium Chairs
Alison B. Flatau
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
George Y. Baaklini
NASA Glenn Research Ctr.
Donald J. Leo
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
Kara J. Peters
North Carolina State Univ.
Executive Committee
Mehdi Ahmadian, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Jet Propulsion Lab.
Jung-Chih Chiao, The Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Aaron A. Diaz, Pacific Northwest National Lab.
Wolfgang Ecke, Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie e.V. (Germany)
Mehrdad N. Ghasemi-Nejhad, Univ. of Hawai'i at Manoa
Victor Giurgiutiu, Univ. of South Carolina
Benjamin K. Henderson, Air Force Research Lab.
Kumar V. Jata, Air Force Research Lab.
Tribikram Kundu, The Univ. of Arizona
Jiangyu Li, Univ. of Washington
Douglas K. Lindner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
M. Brett McMickell, Honeywell, Inc.
Norbert Meyendorf, Univ. of Dayton
Zoubeida Ounaies, Texas A&M Univ.
Peter J. Shull, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
Kyo D. Song, Norfolk State Univ.
Masayoshi Tomizuka, Univ. of California/Berkeley
Vijay K. Varadan, Univ. of Arkansas
Dietmar W. Vogel, Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (Germany)
Thomas Wallmersperger, Univ. Stuttgart (Germany)
H. Felix Wu, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Chung-Bang Yun, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
