FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 24, 2008 — YPSILANTI, Mich. – Brant Ross will be a co-organizer for the 2009 Symposium on Multibody System Software Development and Applications in Education and Industry, which will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC). This conference will be part of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), to be held August 30 – September 2, 2009, at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California.

MotionPort and FunctionBay both participate regularly in the conference, publishing 4 to 5 papers each time. Recent topics presented by MotionPort include: “History, Perspective and Outlook for Media Transport Simulation Using Multibody Dynamics”, and “Using Flexible Constraints to Reduce Noise in Multibody Systems with Intermittent Contact”. These are practical papers that focus on multibody dynamics applications.

A total of several hundred papers will be presented at the International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC). Papers submitted to this conference are also eligible for inclusion into the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, as well as the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control. For more information about ASME journals, please refer to: http://journaltool.asme.org/Content/index.cfm. For more information about the conference, please visit: www.rpi.edu/~anderk5/IDETC2009.

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