ODU'S NOOR AND CAEE HAVE PROMINENT ROLES IN INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING SUMMIT

Ahmed Noor, the Old Dominion University William E. Lobeck Professor of Aerospace Engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Environments (CAEE), will deliver a keynote address and host tours of CAEE when NAFEMS, the influential international arbiter of standards in computer-aided engineering, comes to Hampton Oct. 29-31 to hold its 2008 North American Regional Summit.

About 200 industry leaders, researchers, and software and hardware developers will participate in the meeting, which is being billed as having one of the most innovative agendas ever for visionaries interested in how the engineering simulation industry will evolve between now and 2020. One thread of the conference will involve a Boeing Co. PLASVEE Challenge to solicit approaches to the computer-aided design of a futuristic personal land-air-sea vehicle.

"We at ODU are very pleased that we can open our doors at CAEE to the summit participants and demonstrate our work," said Noor, who is one of the eight members of the meeting's organizing committee. "And by all means, we want to be very active in the PLASVEE Challenge."

Noor's summit-opening keynote address, "Pathway to Future Computer-Aided Engineering Technologies and Their Role in Ambient Intelligent Environments," will be at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29. The CAEE tours will be held in stages between 4:30 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30.