The Annual Celebration of Engineers’ Week in New York City kicked off on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU-Polytechnic) in downtown Brooklyn, NY. The NYC Mayor’s Proclamation ceremony was conducted and presented by Salvatore Galletta PE, MESC Program Chair, Wasyl Kinach, P.E., MESC Chair and Mark Klein, P.E. President of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York.
NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio’s Proclamation declared February 21st – 27th, 2016 in the City of New York as “Engineers Week”. The keynote speaker was Richard S. Thorsen, Ph.D., Dept. Chair and Vice President Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The event was attended by Al Brand P.E. (of Mueser Rutledge) and Rudi Sherbansky P.E., past and current NYC Regional Vice Presidents of the NYS Society of Professional Engineers (NYSSPE).
The Dinner-Lecture Engineers Week event was organized by the Metropolitan Engineering Societies’ Council (MESC): an umbrella organization consisting of 23 local Engineering organizations and local sections of National Engineering Societies. Engineers’ Week is an annual celebration, founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers, to recognize the achievement of Engineers. It is timed close to the birthday of George Washington, in honor of his engineering work as a land surveyor, military engineer and his role in establishing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The featured speaker at the NYC Engineers Week ceremony was Dr. Imin Kao, Associate Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University, who discussed robotics applied to medical resection and rehabilitation. Kao is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University, where he is also the Director of the Systems Engineering and Integration Laboratory. He conducts research in Microsystems, intelligent fault detection and diagnosis, robotics and intelligent contact interface.
The exact title of the lecture was Engineering of Mechanical and Electronic Systems for Robotics Research as Applied in Medical Resection and Rehabilitation. Kao discussed how robotics research has made it possible for engineers and researchers to model and control articulated manipulators, such as hands and fingers. Robotics encompasses applications in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, and computer science. The advances in engineering theory, CAD and 3D printing, as well as medical imaging and signal processing have facilitated innovative solutions for surgery and rehabilitation.
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