The American Society of
Mechanical Engineers is the premier organization for Mechanical Engineers to
learn about the field and keep up with recent developments, to meet and discuss
modern developments in mechanical engineering research and technology and to
find contacts for employment.
The ASME is very broad and therefore encompasses everything you are ever likely
to encounter as a mechanical engineer. The ASME has 39 technical divisions
ranging from Aerospace Engineering to Nanotechnology to Management to
Environmental Systems. The ASME also publishes 21 research journals that range
in topics from Biomechanical Engineering to Electronics Packaging to
Turbomachinery and Vibrations. As you can see, whether your primary interest is
in automobiles, robotics, precision machine design or fluid mechanics, you
belong in ASME! Perhaps more importantly if you don't know what part of
mechanical engineering you are most interested in, ASME is the best place for
you to find out.
As faculty advisor, I would be very happy to meet with you and help you to learn
more about the different sub-fields within mechanical engineering and help focus
your interests. I would also be happy to discuss possibilities for work in
research labs within the Mechanical Engineering Department and direct you to the
professors whose interests match yours. Finally as you approach graduation I can
help steer you toward job opportunities and help you decide whether you might
wish to continue on in graduate school.
Possibly the most important part of joining ASME is so that you can develop a
student peer group, take part in fun social and technical activities, travel to
other universities in our region and the country for various meetings and get to
know people outside those you see in your classes every day. This is a very
exciting time to be at Charlotte and it is our goal to grow with the university
to become the largest and most active student section of the ASME in the
southeastern region. We would love to have you take a part in the efforts to
reach this goal! See you at the next meeting, email me at lsharpe2@uncc.edu or
come see me in my office.
Larry Sharpe
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duke 303
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte NC 28223-0001
704-687-8930
