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Fall 2007 Meeting

SAEFDE Committee Meeting

The University of Iowa, Iowa City IA52333

Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

October 8-10, 2007

Theme:

Retrospect, Present, and Future with SAEFDE and Fatigue in General

Revised 9/28/07

Monday October 8, 2007

9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Surface Enhancement Group, Kirkwood Room 257 IMU

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Steering Committee Meeting, (Sheraton Hotel Restaurant Old Capital Café, Morgan room A, first floor opposite hotel registration. Be there at 7:00 PM sharp)

Tuesday October 9, 2007 Iowa Room 335 IMU

7:15 AM Registration ($25 fee), coffee, orange juice and donuts

8:00 Christoph Leser and Ralph Stephens: Welcome, Introduction, Goals, and Logistics

8:25 H. O. Fuchs Student Award Presentation, Lan Vo of The University of Iowa

9:00 Jack Champaign: EI Electronics, Surface Enhancement and Shot Peening

9:30 Dan Lingenfelser: SAEFDE and Caterpillar

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Doug Boland: LMS, Simulated Multiaxial vehicle dynamics and durability

11:00 Darrell Socie: U of Illinois, SAEFDE Student to Professor

11:30 Chin Chan Chu : Ford Motor Co., Fitting and Digitizing Fatigue Curves

12:00 Lunch (buy your own)

1:00 Ali Fatemi: SAEFDE and U of Toledo

1:30 Kevin Lease: SAEFDE and KansasState University

2:00 Ralph Stephens: SAEFDE and U of Iowa

2:30 Coffee/Pop Break

3:00 Peter Kurath: U of Illinois, Fatigue Design/Research in the Future

3:30 Steven Haeg: MTS, Simulation Technology

4:00 KK Choi: U of Iowa, SAE Reliability Committee G11

4:30 Christoph Leser: Chair of SAEFDE will lead discussion of SAEFDE for the Future

5:00 Adjourn Technical meeting

5:15 to 7:00 Social Hour in the North Room IMU with light food/snacks and cash bar, sponsored by LMS

Wednesday October 10, 2007 Iowa Room 335 IMU

7:30 AM Registration, coffee, orange juice and donuts

8:00 Christoph Leser and Ralph Stephens: Welcome, Plans and Logistics

8:15 John Hakala: SAEFDE and General Motors

8:30 Al Conle: Ford Motor Co., Collaborative Web Tools

9:00 Kelly Donaldson and Christoph Leser: MTS Technology over the decades 1970’ - 2000’

9:30 Mark Pompetzki: SAEFDE and nCode

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Phil Dindinger and Tom Cordes: SAEFDE Commentary

11:00 John Bonnen, Ford: SAEFDE Weld Program Update

11:30 Christoph Leser, SAEFDE in the Future - Discussion

12:00 Meeting Adjourned

12:00 to 1:30 SAEFDE Steering Committee Lunch and Planning Meeting (location TBD)

Contacts:

Professor Ralph Stephens, The University of Iowa, 319-335-5682, ralph-stephens@uiowa.edu

Christoph Leser, MTS Systems, 952-937-4147, christoph.leser@mts.com