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Business Forum
Monday, October 16, 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Session Chair: Dan E. Luttrell

The ASPE Business Forum is open to all attendees of the annual meeting and will be of particular benefit to those with interests in business or the management of technology. The program will combine business and technology issues pertinent to leaders in the precision engineering community. It will be held this year on Monday October 16, 2006, just prior to the start of the formal ASPE meeting.

The program will consist of a continental breakfast, morning talks, lunch, and ample time to network with invited speakers and other attendees. As the talks are finalized they will be posted on the ASPE web site. Sustaining Corporate Sponsors of the ASPE are welcome to send one attendee to the Business Forum free of charge. Additional participants from the same Sustaining Corporate Sponsor, Corporate Sponsors, or from other organizations can participate at a cost of $250.

Commercial Session
Tuesday, October 17, 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Session Co-Chairs: Stephen J. Ludwick (Aerotech, Inc.) and Byron R. Knapp (Olympic Precision, Inc.)

In this special afternoon session, company representatives are invited to make brief presentations on new products associated with precision engineering. Participants will have the opportunity to hear about limitations of performance of existing approaches, new discoveries relevant to precision engineering, and advances that can be expected in the future.

In this special afternoon session, company representatives are invited to make brief presentations on new products associated with precision engineering. Participants will have the opportunity to hear about limitations of performance of existing approaches, new discoveries relevant to precision engineering, and advances that can be expected in the future.

Open Forum
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Wednesday, October 18, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Session Chair: Alexander H. Slocum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The Open Forum was created to encourage dissemination of new and significant results, as well as observations on precision engineering subjects. This year we have planned a special informal session, and we would like participants to bring their story on a couple of slides (please email them in advance as .pdf or PowerPoint files to Alex Slocum slocum@mit.edu) Describe a research problem that was funded by NSF (or whoever, but especially NSF tales), and how the project evolved into something (anything) that was later (any time later, even after the contract was over) adopted by industry.

The goals of this session are to:

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