Tutorials & Business Forum
Monday and Tuesday, November 4-5, 2024
All tutorials and the Business Forum will be offered in-person at the Westin Galleria Houston, with four sessions*** of those tutorials being offered both in-person and virtually.
***Denotes Hybrid Tutorial – These tutorials will be offered both in-person and virtually. When registering for these tutorials, please either register for the hybrid option or the in-person option (not both).
| Monday, November 4, 2024 8:00 AM – 12:00 Noon | Location | Tuesday, November 5, 2024 8:00 AM – 12:00 Noon | Location |
| 1–Precision Alignment: Deep Dive into Kinematic Couplings (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Folkers Rojas (Millie Rojas Engineering Corporation) | San Felipe | 7B-Precision Mechatronics Case Studies – 2 (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Johannes P. Vermeulen (ASML and Eindhoven University of Technology) | San Felipe |
| 2-Spindle Metrology (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Byron R. Knapp (Professional Instruments Company) | Sage | 12-Introduction to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Jaime Berez (University of North Carolina – Charlotte) | Post Oak |
| ***3-Reversals and Error Separation (Half-Day, Hybrid) Dr. Christopher J. Evans (University of North Carolina – Charlotte) & Dr. Vivek G. Badami (Zygo Corporation) | Post Oak | 9B-Optical Alignment Techniques – 2 (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Eric S. Buice (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) | Sage |
| 5-Optomechanical System Design (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Jonathan D. Ellis (Edmund Optics) | Bellaire | 13–Introduction to Engineering Granites and Ceramics (Half-Day, In-person) Stephen J. Pawlowski and Reg Maas (CoorsTek, Inc.), Joseph J. Erkens and Tyler J. Steichen (Starrett Tru-Stone Technologies) | Bellaire |
| 6-Actuators for Precision Engineering (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. David L. Trumper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & Dr. Lei Zhou (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Tanglewood | 14-Sensors for Precision Engineering (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Richard M. Seugling (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | Tanglewood |
| Monday, November 4, 2024 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Tuesday, November 5, 2024 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | ||
| 7A-Precision Mechatronics Case Studies – 1 (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Johannes P. Vermeulen (ASML and Eindhoven University of Technology) & Dr. Dannis M. Brouwer (University of Twente) | San Felipe | 4-Standards for Precision Engineering (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Edward P. Morse (University of North Carolina – Charlotte | San Felipe |
| ***8A-Exact Constraint Design of Precision Flexures – 1 (Half-Day, Hybrid) Dr. Jonathan B. Hopkins (University of California – Los Angeles) | Post Oak | 15-Business Forum (Half-Day, In-Person) Dr. S. V. Sreenivasan (The University of Texas at Austin); Antonius Peijnenburg (VDL ETG Technology & Development); Dr. R. Ryan Vallance (Senko Advanced Components); Brian P. O’Connor (Aerotech, Inc.) | Sage |
| 9A-Optical Alignment Techniques – 1 (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Eric S. Buice (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) & Dr. Vivek G. Badami (Zygo Corporation | Sage | ***8B-Exact Constraint Design of Precision Flexures – 2 (Half-Day, Hybrid) Dr. Jonathan B. Hopkins (University of California – Los Angeles) | Post Oak |
| 10A-Dynamic Error Budgeting – 1 (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Leon Jabben (MI Partners) | Bellaire | ***16-Introduction to Damping (Half-Day, Hybrid) Dr. Samir Nayfeh (Physical Precision LLC) | Plaza Ballroom |
| 11-Active Vibration Isolation (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. W.B.J. Hakvoort (University of Twente) | Tanglewood | 10B-Dynamic Error Budgeting – 2 (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. Leon Jabben (MI Partners) | Bellaire |
| 17-Basic Control Theory (Half-Day, In-person) Dr. David L. Trumper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Tanglewood |