Organised by the American Society of Plastics Engineers, and taking place at the huge McCormick Place Conference Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA, ANTEC™ 2009 will be held jointly with the National Plastics Exposition.

This year it will include a Special Session featuring papers from 4M.

A joint workshop between 4M Ceramic Division and VTT and SINTEF will be held at this event which is three fairs in one, the topics are Polymers (Scanplast), Design (Konstruktion och Design) and Electronics (Electronix).

The workshop will give an overview on the product development process of ceramic micro parts related to Sensors & Actuators applications with focus on Applications, Manufacturing and Reliability.

The workshop will:

• Identify the critical steps and missing competence
• Define 4M services and identify industrial service providers
• Collect the resources and structu

Taking place at TNO, Eindhoven, this Expert Group, is planning a public event/sandpit centred on microcomponents manufacturing, and integration with surface activation/assembly etc. If you are interested in participating in this event you can contact Pieter Bolt.

Venue: Technical University of Denmark, Mechanical Engineering Department Building 427S, DK-2800 Lyngby

• Language: English
• Point (ECTS): 5
• Form: Lectures and invited speakers. Project work.
• Examination: Report and oral examination on 30th January 2009.
• Aid: Allowed.
• Evaluation: Passed/Not Passed. External examiner.
• Participants restrictions: Minimum 8, maximum 24.
• Qualified prerequisites: Basic skills in solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and Fortran or C programming.