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June 2008
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NAFEMS 2020 Vision of Engineering Analysis & Simulation Call for Abstracts
NAFEMS, The International Association for the Engineering Analysis Community, is inviting papers for NAFEMS 2020, to be held in Hampton, Virginia on October 29-31, 2008. Please submit your papers early for advanced consideration.
The Issues
Where is engineering analysis and simulation going? Where should it be going, and how will we all help get it there? What are the business, technological, and human enablers that will carry the past successful developments, applications, and business impact of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) to higher plateaus during the next decade and beyond?
The Event
NAFEMS, the premier global organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of engineering simulation, is hosting NAFEMS:2020 in Hampton, Virginia during October 29-31, 2008 to bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies and business processes to share relevant trends and roadmaps, to explore common themes, and to address these issues in an open forum. The goal is to provide attendees with the best “food for thought and action” to deploy CAE over the next several years.
The Topics
A vision of CAE’s potential in 2020 has many facets associated with maximizing the value of using engineering analysis and simulation in addressing the ever-increasingly complexity of products and their life cycles. NAFEMS:2020 will include keynote speakers, exhibits, and breakout sessions exploring the following subjects:
Business developments to increase the financial impact of CAE investments
Development and deployment of CAE roadmaps
Management and executive awareness and understanding to make CAE deployment decisions with enduring positive impact
Integration of simulation information within Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Broadening the scope of industries and applications that benefit from advanced engineering analysis and simulation
The roles of CAE software and hardware developers
Technical developments to improve speed, accuracy, reliability, accessibility, and applicability of results (“the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers .”)
High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems for CAE (further synergies between hardware architectures and software algorithms)
Capturing the relevant physics well enough to gain engineering insight through multifunctional and multiphysics simulation
Material characterization including multiscale material models and data management; understanding and coping with model limitations, etc.
The impact of nanotechnologies on CAE requirements such as multifunctional “designer” nano-materials
Timely insight of mushrooming results: visualization, animation, and immersive virtual reality (“Moore’s Law doesn’t apply to the human brain ”)
Driving design improvement and optimization from smart simulations
Real-Time virtual simulations
Design uncertainty quantifications and non-deterministic optimization
Innovative approximation methods and evolutionary optimization
Human issues
Intelligent engineering collaboration environments
Teaching simulation as part of the basic engineering curricula
Evolving engineering processes and organizations to leverage CAE advances
Certification of engineers to help ensure safe and effective use of CAE
Training and education aligned with a 2020 vision
Submission of Abstracts & Presentations
Abstracts of 300-600 words should be submitted for consideration by June 15th, 2008. Abstracts must be clearly marked with author's name, organization, address, fax, phone numbers and email address. If you intend to submit an abstract, please complete the form below, or contact Matthew Ladzinski at NAFEMS by calling 1(704)248-2628. You may also email your abstract to:na2008@nafems.org. Note: Please be sure to use the abstract template below.
Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to prepare an extended abstract (typically 1-2 pages) and a PowerPoint presentation. Full written papers will not be required.
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