ASME NEWS
IMECE Lineup and ISHOW Innovations
A roundup of recent Society events.
IMECE 2025 Announces Featured Speakers
The International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) has announced three keynote speakers for 2025. Tom Lieuwen, executive vice president for research at the Georgia Institute of Technology takes the stage on the first day. On Tuesday, Calvin Mackie, founder and CEO of STEM NOLA and STEM Global Action addresses attendees, followed by Chandrakant D. Patel on Thursday.
This year, the longest running engineering event in the world is set to host more than 2,000 attendees who will explore engineering innovation’s role in setting up a resilient future. The event where research leaders from academia, government, and industry come together to make connections and share insights will be in Memphis, Tenn., from Nov. 16-20, 2025.
This year’s IMECE examines the critical role of mechanical engineering in addressing global challenges through innovation and resilience and celebrates the intersection of cutting-edge research, technological progress, and a commitment to a viable future. Conference attendees are set to cover such topics as AI and digitalization, Industry 5.0, the technical leadership pipeline, future urban mobility, and cross-cutting technologies, fundamental science, and applications.
Three Ventures Earn Places in Annual ISHOW
ASME recently announced the latest regional cohort ventures joining the 2025 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW). These organizations are set to collect seed grant awards and technical support. They are also invited to participate in the annual ISHOW Bootcamp to receive extensive and customized design and engineering expert reviews to help guide them as they scale to market.
The 2025 ASME ISHOW Americas ventures’ innovations provide affordable, sustainable hardware technology solutions. BiliRoo’s technology combines filtered sunlight phototherapy with skin-to-skin contact to treat infant jaundice. LÆRO made the cut for its compact graywater recycling system designed to retrofit below sinks and showers in aging buildings. Vianyumi was credited for its Dynamic Infant Neurorehab Aid–a soft robotic newborn suit for shoulder range-of-motion rehabilitation therapy.
These organizations will receive design services to support their product development. They now become part of the ISHOW alumni network, an international community of hardware innovators and stakeholders with exclusive access to experts and resources.
Firms Seek ASME Nuclear Certification
FAMAK SA and Mostostal Kraków SA have completed the first phase of ASME’s Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) Certification Program. NQA-1 provides companies with quality assurance requirements and guidance applicable to all phases of a nuclear facility’s life cycle and is applicable to all structures, systems, components, activities, or organizations that are essential for the safe, reliable, and efficient performance.
These companies are among those selected by Westinghouse Electric Company to construct the nuclear power plant (NPP) in Pomerania, Poland. The NQA-1 enables them to be included in the global supply chain of the American technology supplier of the AP1000 reactors selected for the project.
The first stage of the NQA-1 process aims to develop procedures in 18 areas in the nuclear sector, including quality assurance, equipment control, design and documentation, and the development of principles as part of corrective actions. In the next stage, companies will implement previously developed solutions and ensure appropriate employee training. The task set to complete the process will be to create a previously designed selected nuclear island test module for the implementation of Poland’s first NPP.
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