GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS) of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University organized a special symposium with multiple sessions on "Processing, Characterization and Modeling of Novel Nanoengineered and Surface Engineered Materials" as part of the 2002 International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition (IMECE) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME International) in New Orleans, La., from November 17-22.
The symposium was organized by professors Jagannathan Sankar, director of N.C. A&T's CAMSS and principal investigator and Devdas Pai, the Center's Co-PI. Dr. Sergey Yarmolenko, senior research scientist assisted with the symposium.

The symposium provided a forum for the exchange of information on recent developments in various advanced ceramic systems. It also provided a forum for cross-disciplinary infrastructure papers that transcends departmental, institutional, industrial and governmental barriers and lends itself to the integration of research in the vital field of these innovative and advanced materials. Several CAMSS faculty members and students participated in the conference by writing papers and presentations. The papers were all peer-reviewed and have been published in CD-ROM format in the Symposium Proceedings, edited by professors Sankar and Pai, and Dr. Yarmolenko.

Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today ASME International is a nonprofit educational and technical organization serving a worldwide membership. It sets many industrial and manufacturing standards, conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations and holds some 30 technical conferences and 200 professional development courses each year.
Details of CAMSS activities are available at http://camss.ncat.edu.