Engineering:International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition

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International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
StatusActive
GenreAcademic conference and exposition
FrequencyAnnual
VenueVaries
Location(s)Primarily the United States, occasionally Canada
Inaugurated1994; 32 years ago (1994)
Participants~3,000-4,000 (attendees from 50+ countries)
Organized byAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Websiteevent.asme.org/IMECE

The International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) is an annual academic conference and industry exposition organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).[1] First held under its present name in 1994, it is the society's flagship technical conference; ASME describes it as its largest research-and-development conference, and as one of the largest and most prominent annual gatherings globally in the field of mechanical engineering, with a program spanning essentially the entire discipline and its allied fields.[2][3][4] The congress pairs a large multi-track technical program with an exhibition, and it serves as the principal annual meeting at which ASME's technical divisions meet.[4][5][6]

IMECE is the successor to ASME's long-running Winter Annual Meeting. ASME, founded in 1880, held a winter meeting as its main general gathering for much of the 20th century; the society adopted the "International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition" name in 1994, beginning with the meeting held that November in Chicago.[7][8] The congress is typically held in November in a major North American city, and its proceedings are published by ASME and indexed in the ASME Digital Collection.[9]

The program is built around ASME's technical divisions, and IMECE thus serves as the venue at which those divisions hold their annual business and committee meetings.[6] The 2024 congress featured 18 technical tracks and more than 1,900 presentations and posters, with participants representing more than 50 countries.[5] The proceedings of IMECE cover research across all mechanical engineering disciplines, including aerospace, manufacturing, biomedical and biotechnology engineering, dynamics and control, energy, fluids engineering, heat transfer, mechanics of solids, acoustics, micro- and nanosystems, transportation, and emerging technologies; they have been published in the ASME Digital Collection since 2002.[9]

Robert Henry Thurston Lecture

IMECE is the setting for the Robert Henry Thurston Lecture, established in 1925 in honor of ASME's first president.[10][11] The Thurston Lecture is the oldest of ASME's named lectures and is regarded as the oldest named lecture in the field of mechanical engineering; it provides a leading figure in pure or applied science or engineering the opportunity to address the society on a subject of broad interest to engineers.[10][11] The lecture has been delivered at the society's principal annual meeting since its inception: first the Winter Annual Meeting and, since 1994, IMECE. It was elevated to a society-wide award in 2000.[11]

History

ASME was established in 1880 and developed a winter general meeting that became known as the Winter Annual Meeting, which for decades served as the society's principal gathering for technical presentations.[7] In 1994 the society rebranded this meeting as the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, beginning with the congress held in Chicago on November 6-11, 1994.[8] Over the following decades IMECE was held in major U.S. cities and, periodically, in Canada:Vancouver in 2010 and 2026, and Montreal in 2014.[12][13] The 2020 and 2021 editions were held as virtual conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][14] In September 2025, ASME launched a regional edition, IMECE India.[15]

Host cities

The table below lists the host cities of IMECE since the conference adopted its current name in 1994. The 2020 and 2021 editions were held virtually.

Host cities of the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Year Dates Host city Notes
1994 November 6-11 Chicago, Illinois First congress under the IMECE name[8]
1995 November 12-17 San Francisco, California [16]
1996 November 17-22 Atlanta, Georgia [12]
1997 November 16-21 Dallas, Texas [17]
1998 November 15-20 Anaheim, California [12]
1999 November 14-19 Nashville, Tennessee [18]
2000 November 5-10 Orlando, Florida [17]
2001 November New York, New York [19]
2002 November 17-22 New Orleans, Louisiana [17]
2003 November 15-21 Washington, D.C. [20]
2004 November 13-19 Anaheim, California [12]
2005 November 5-11 Orlando, Florida [17]
2006 November 5-10 Chicago, Illinois [16]
2007 November 11-15 Seattle, Washington [21]
2008 October 31 - November 6 Boston, Massachusetts [21]
2009 November 13-19 Lake Buena Vista, Florida [21][22]
2010 November 12-18 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [12]
2011 November 11-17 Denver, Colorado [23]
2012 November 9-15 Houston, Texas [23][12]
2013 November 15-21 San Diego, California [12]
2014 November 14-20 Montreal, Quebec, Canada [12][24]
2015 November 13-19 Houston, Texas [17]
2016 November 11-17 Phoenix, Arizona [24]
2017 November 3-9 Tampa, Florida [25]
2018 November 9-15 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [22]
2019 November 8-14 Salt Lake City, Utah [24]
2020 November 16-19 Virtual conference Originally planned for Portland, Oregon; held online during the COVID-19 pandemic[3]
2021 November 1-5 Virtual conference [14]
2022 October 30 - November 3 Columbus, Ohio [14][4]
2023 October 29 - November 2 New Orleans, Louisiana Ernest N. Morial Convention Center[26]
2024 November 17-21 Portland, Oregon Oregon Convention Center[5][27]
2025 November 16-20 Memphis, Tennessee Renasant Convention Center[13]
2026 November 8-12 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver Convention Centre[13][28]


See also

References

  1. ↑ "About the American Society of Mechanical Engineers". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://www.asme.org/about-asme. 
  2. ↑ "International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE)". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://event.asme.org/IMECE. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "IMECE 2020 Goes Virtual and Registration is Open". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/society-news/asme-news/imece-2020-goes-virtual-and-registration-is-open. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) — Conference Profile, Rankings & Metrics". https://research.com/conference/international-mechanical-engineering-congress-exposition1. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "IMECE 2024 Conference Program" (PDF). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://event.asme.org/Events/media/library/resources/imece/IMECE-2024-Conference-Program.pdf. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "IMECE — Committee Meetings". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://www.asme.org/events/imece/program/committee-meetings. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Engineering History". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Books/Printed Material: 1994 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, November 6-11, 1994". Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/books/?fa=subject%3Acongresses%7Ccontributor%3Ainternational+mechanical+engineering+congress+and+exposition%7Csubject%3Afluid+dynamics&all=true. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "IMECE". American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME Digital Collection). https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IMECE. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The American Society of Mechanical Engineers". Science 62 (1611): 432. November 1925. doi:10.1126/science.62.1611.432-a. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/robert-henry-thurston-lecture-award. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 "Book/Printed Material — International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (Fluid Dynamics)". Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/books/?fa=subject%3Acongresses%7Ccontributor%3Ainternational+mechanical+engineering+congress+and+exposition%7Csubject%3Afluid+dynamics&all=true. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE)". Conference Locate (Clocate). https://www.clocate.com/asme-international-mechanical-engineering-congress-and-exposition-imece/52246/. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "Conferences and Workshops". Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Computational Mechanics. https://computmech.ornl.gov/conferences.html. 
  15. ↑ "About IMECE". ASME India. https://imece.asme-india.org/2026/about-imece. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Author Search: International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition". Texas A&M University Libraries. https://catalog.library.tamu.edu/Author/Home?author=%22International+Mechanical+Engineering+Congress+and+Exposition%22&type=Author. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 "Books/Printed Material — International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition". Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/books/?all=true&fa=subject%3Acongresses%7Ccontributor%3Ainternational+mechanical+engineering+congress+and+exposition. 
  18. ↑ "Electronics manufacturing issues: presented at the 1999 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 14-19, 1999, Nashville, Tennessee". Stanford University (SearchWorks). https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4292546. 
  19. ↑ Pierre, Christophe. "Publications". Stevens Institute of Technology. https://www.stevens.edu/profile/cpierre. 
  20. ↑ "ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 15-21, 2003, Washington, DC — Manufacturing Engineering (volume)". ASME Digital Collection. https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IMECE/IMECE2003/volume/37203. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 "American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Organization): IMECE proceedings, 2007-2012". Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. http://link.library.mst.edu/resource/kStzso_xiEk/. 
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Conference Proceedings". Pennsylvania State University (iPHEL). https://sites.psu.edu/iphel/conference-proceedings/. 
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Zhou, Jiang. "Publications". Lamar University. https://www.lamar.edu/engineering/mechanical/faculty-staff/jenny-zhou/publications.html. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Zhang, Yuwen. "Conference Services". University of Missouri. https://zhangyu.mufaculty.umsystem.edu/services/conference-services. 
  25. ↑ "ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition: November 3-9, 2017, Tampa, Florida, USA". WorldCat. https://search.worldcat.org/title/asme-2017-international-mechanical-engineering-congress-and-exposition-november-3-9-2017-tampa-florida-usa/oclc/1028577921. 
  26. ↑ "IMECE 2023 Final Program" (PDF). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://event.asme.org/Events/media/library/resources/imece/IMECE-2023-Final-Program.pdf. 
  27. ↑ "ASME IMECE 2024 (Portland, OR)". Showsbee. https://www.showsbee.com/fairs/82103-ASME-IMECE-2023.html. 
  28. ↑ "IMECE 2026 — Advancing Global Solutions". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://imece.secure-platform.com/a. 



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