World of precision engineering and music meets at the 2025 ASPE student challenge. Using precision air-bearing spindles and diamond cutting tools, students will gain hands-on experience in cutting their own music record on acrylic. This challenge is designed to develop hands-on skills and deepen understanding in precision machining, noise damping, and precision control.

Calendar:

• September 22, 2025: Challenge begins.
• October 17, 2025: ( 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM PST): Preliminary Presentation.
• October 31, 2025: ( 11:59 PM Local Time): Final Report Submission.
• November 03, 2025:( 06:00 PM – 11:59 PM Local Time): Competition at the conference.
• November 05, 2025: ( Noon – 01:30 PM Local Time): Presentations at the conference.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

NSF Website

ASML

ASML is an innovation leader in the semiconductor industry. We provide chipmakers with everything they need – hardware, software and services – to mass produce patterns on silicon through lithography.

ASML Website

Professional Instruments

Professional Instruments Company manufactures the world’s most accurate air bearing spindles and slides for customers who require millionth-inch precision, high stiffness, and zero friction. Since 1946, we have solved our customers’ problems in manufacturing, measuring, and scientific research. Over years, PI has been providing the student challenge teams with the necessary air-bearing spindles.

PI Website

Renishaw

Renishaw is a global engineering company specializing in high-precision technology for metrology, healthcare, and additive manufacturing. They develop innovative systems that enhance precision and reliability across industries like transport, agriculture, electronics, and healthcare. With over 5,000 employees in 67 locations across 36 countries—including 3,000 in the UK focused on R&D and manufacturing—they are also leaders in metal 3D printing. Renishaw provided the team with the rotary encoders.

Renishaw Website

UNC Charlotte – College of Engineering

For more than 60 years, the William States Lee College of Engineering has been one of the finest engineering colleges in the southeast. In the disciplines of civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering and engineering science, industrial and systems engineering, and engineering technology and construction management, we have been educating leading engineering professionals.

COE Website

Edge Technologies

Edge Technologies (ET) delivers the smoothest of edges without the subsurface damage caused by abrasive machining. Edge Technologies regularly produces tools that are <2 microinches (50.8 nanometer) waviness peak-to-valley, over 90 degrees of arc. Edge Technologies is providing the student challenge teams with the necessary diamond tools

ET Website

Motus Mechanical

Canon

Canon has revamped its business portfolio in anticipation of rapid developments in AI and other tech. In Phase VI, which began in 2021, of our medium-to-long-term management program Excellent Global Corporation Plan, we restructured our organization, including Group companies, into four industry-oriented business groups — Printing, Medical, Imaging, and Industrial.

Canon Website

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Since its founding in 1848, this campus has been a catalyst for the extraordinary. As a public land-grant university and major research institution, our students, staff, and faculty engage in a world-class education while solving real-world problems.

UW–Madison Website

Become an ASPE Annual Meeting Sponsor!

Sponsorships provide exciting opportunities to engage with attendees at ASPE’s Annual Meeting, including exposure, branding, and direct interaction with students and professionals in the Precision Engineering fields.

sponsored events* (1, 2, & 3 events max for a silver, gold, & platinum sponsor respectively)

🍽️ Wednesday Dinner 🎉 Welcome Reception 🧠 Student Challenge 🍱 Lunches ☕ Coffee Breaks

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Sponsorship Registration

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