Professor Albert Luo will serve as the Technical Program Chair for 2005 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and the Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), to be held Long Beach, California, September 24-28, 2005. See the conference website

http://www.asmeconferences.org/idetc2005/

for details. This conference includes 9 subconferences. Professor Luo also serves as the program chair for one of the sub-conferences, the 20th Biennial Conference on Vibration and Noise, which will include about 300 papers.