Ming-Tzer Lin - National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Cesar Sciammarella - Illinois Institute of Technology, USA; Horacio D. Espinosa- Northwestern University, USA; Cosme Furlong - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA; Luciano Lamberti- Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Phillip Reu- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Michael Sutton- University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; C-H. Hwang-Instrument Technology Research Center, Taiwan