1. Committee Meeting ASME MESA Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications Moderators: Harry H. Cheng, UC Davis Zuomin Dong, Univ. of Victoria, Canada YangQuan Chen, Utah State University, USA 5:30-6:50PM, September 6, 2007 Rio Hotel, Las Vegas

2. Agenda MESA Conference History (Harry Cheng) ASME and IEEE Affiliations (Harry Cheng) Committees (YangQuan Chen) Remarks on Service (Zuomin Dong) Open Discussions Executive Committee Meeting

3. Why MESA?

4. MESA History Odd year, ASME/IEEE International Conference on MESA Even year, IEEE/ASME International Conference on MESA 2005, 1 st ASME/IEEE MESA, Long Beach, ASME DETC/CIE 2006, 2 nd IEEE/ASME MESA, Beijing, China (IEEE ITSS) Selected best conference papers were published in a special issue on Intelligent Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2007, 3rd ASME/IEEE MESA, Las Vegas, ASME DETC/CIE 2008, 4th IEEE/ASME MESA (Beijing, China, Oct. 12-15) –Along with IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Annual Conference and IEEE Service Operations and Logistics, Informatics Conference 2009, 5th ASME/IEEE MESA (August, San Diego)

5. ASME Affiliation Divisions –DE: Design Engineering Division (TBD) –CIE: Computers and Information in Engineering (TBD) –DSC: Dynamic Systems and Control (pending)

6. IEEE Affiliation ITS: Intelligent Transportation Society CSS: Control Systems Society (pending) CS: Computer Society (pending) SMC: Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (pending)

7. ASME/IEEE MESA 2007 General Chair –Feiyue Wang, Univ. of Arizona and Chinese Academy of Sciences, USA General Co-Chair –Harry H. Cheng, Univ. of California, Davis, USA Program Chair –YangQuan Chen, Utah State University, USA

8. Conference Topics and Symposia Chairs: Machines for Human Augmentation and Rehabilitation –Symposium Chair: Sunil Kumar Agrawal, University of Delaware, USA Mechatronic Systems –Symposium Chair: Jian Dai, King's College London, UK Networked Mechatronic and Embedded Systems –Symposium Chair: Bo Chen, University of California, Davis, USA Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in Education –Symposium Chair: Jia Xu, York University, Canada Development, Verification, and Debug Tools for Mechatronic and Embedded Systems –Symposium Chair: Michael J. Pont, University of Leicester, UK Embedded System Infrastructure and Theory –Symposium Chair: Martin Horauer, U. of Applied Sci. Tech. Vienna, Austria Mechatronic and Embedded System Applications –Symposium Chair: Primo Zingaretti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy Mechatronics Control and Automation –Symposium Chairs: Chunjiang Qian and Michael T. Frye, U. of Texas at San Antonio Sensor and MEMS –Symposium Chair: V. Sundararajan, Univ. of California Riverside, USA Other special topics –Chair: Hami Kazerooni, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

9. Chair of the Honors and Awards Committee –Zuomin Dong, University of Victoria, Canada

10. Advisory Committee (MESA07) Jorge Angeles, McGill University, Canada David M. Auslander, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Kevin C. Craig, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Krishna C. Gupta, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA Ren C. Luo, National Chung Cheng University, China Michael McCarthy, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA Kevin L. Moore, Colorado School of Mines Bahram Ravani, Univ. of California, Davis, USA Mario Rotea, Purdue University, USA T. J. Tarn, Washington University, USA Masayoshi Tomizuka, U. of California, Berkeley, USA

11. MESA Executive Committee Sunil Kumar Agrawal, University of Delaware, USA David M. Auslander, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Bo Chen, Michigan Tech. University, USA Xiaoqi Chen, University of Canterbury, New Zealand YangQuan Chen, Utah State University, USA Harry H. Cheng, Univ. of California, Davis, USA Zuomin Dong, University of Victoria, Canada Martin Horauer, U. of Applied Sci. Tech. Vienna, Austria Hami Kazerooni, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Ren C. Luo, National Chung Cheng University, China Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Primo Zingaretti, U. of Politechnica dell Marche, Italy You in the near future!

12. MESA Committee Founding Committee Member Every one in this room who wishes to sign up Offer professional service by serving as –reviewer, –review coordinator, –special/invited session organizer, –symposium organizer –executive committee member –program chair –general chair

13. Conference Topics and Symposia Chairs: Machines for Human Augmentation and Rehabilitation –Symposium Chair: Sunil Kumar Agrawal, University of Delaware, USA Mechatronic Systems –Symposium Chair: Jian Dai, King's College London, UK Networked Mechatronic and Embedded Systems –Symposium Chair: Bo Chen, University of California, Davis, USA Mechatronic and Embedded Systems in Education –Symposium Chair: Jia Xu, York University, Canada Development, Verification, and Debug Tools for Mechatronic and Embedded Systems –Symposium Chair: Michael J. Pont, University of Leicester, UK Embedded System Infrastructure and Theory –Symposium Chair: Martin Horauer, U. of Applied Sci. Tech. Vienna, Austria Mechatronic and Embedded System Applications –Symposium Chair: Primo Zingaretti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy Mechatronics Control and Automation –Symposium Chairs: Chunjiang Qian and Michael T. Frye, U. of Texas at San Antonio Sensor and MEMS –Symposium Chair: V. Sundararajan, Univ. of California Riverside, USA Other special topics –Chair: Hami Kazerooni, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

14. Open Discussions Articulations –Creating “By-Laws”, –Mailing List –MESA website –Newsletter –Finalizing affiliation issue.

15. MESA Executive Committee Meeting

16. Action MESA Committee and ASME MESA Conference Chair. (2009) –Motion: –Discussion –Vote

17. MESA Executive Committee Roles Discussions –Secretary: Xiaoqi Chen –Circulate first founding meeting minutes –Circulate founding member list –Check ASME role structure in a committee