The 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) was held on November 11-17, 2007 in Seattle at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center and at the nearby Sheraton Hotel. The annual IMECE is the largest mechanical engineering conference for both academics and professionals. Besides technical sessions on leading research and committee meetings on various topics, the conference also hosts ASME student competition finals.

Seattle University students were well-represented. Two technical papers had student co-authors. Two Seattle University students (G. Bratzel '09 and A. Beach '10) also served as panelists on the Student Stakeholders Panel at the Committee on Student Development. Lastly, to promote HPVC events for ASME headquarters, Seattle University had a large booth at the exhibition hall (as large as the Boeing booth).

10 ME students, given complimentary registrations by ASME, rotated and volunteered at the HPVC/Seattle University booth between classes to promote the HPVC competition and the mechanical engineering program at Seattle University. The students displayed 4 trophies from 2004-6 and our 2006 HPVC West utility class 3rd place winner "Larry O. Hawkenheimer" at the Convention Center. The exhibit lasted three days and each day the exhibition hall opened for six hours.

The booth received several surprise visits from Seattle University mechanical engineering alumni, such as J. Gregoire '06, C. Stong '89 (Boeing), G. Clayton '01 (UW) and D. Strickland '06 (Stanford) who were either attending or presenting at the conference.

Our booth is next to Boeing's: Student volunteers waiting for exhibition hall door to open.

UCLA Mechanical Engineering Department Chair, Prof. Adrienne Lavine, visiting with SU ME students.

(L to R) M. Linquist '08, Professor Adrienne Lavine, A. Beach '10, B. Coburn '08. Prof. Lavine co-authors the heat transfer textbook our students uses in MEGR 324.