Chair: Rama S.R. Gorla, Cleveland State University, USA Shoaib Usman, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Shabaan Abdallah, University of Cincinnati, USA Nikos Mastorakis, Military Institutes of University Education, Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece Members: Andrei Fedorov (USA) A. C. Baytas (Turkey) Albert R. George (USA) Alexander I. Leontiev (Russia) Andreas Dillmann (Germany) Bruce Caswell (USA) Chris Swan (UK) David A. Caughey (USA) Derek B Ingham (UK) Donatien Njomo (CM) Dong Chen (Australia) Dong-Ryul Lee (Korea) Edward E. Anderson (USA) G. Gaiser (Germany) G.D. Raithby (Canada) Gad Hetsroni (Israel) H. Beirγo da Veiga (Italy) Ingegerd Sjφholm (Sweden) Jerry R. Dunn (USA) Joseph T. C. Liu (USA) Karl Bόhler (Germany) Kenneth S. Breuer (USA) Kumar K. Tamma (USA) Kyungkeun Kang (USA) M. A. Hossain (UK) M. F. El-Amin (USA) M.-Y. Wen (Taiwan) Michiel Nijemeisland (USA) Ming-C. Chyu (USA) Naoto Tanaka (Japan) Natalia V. Medvetskaya (Russia) O. Liungman (Sweden) Philip Marcus (USA) Pradip Majumdar (USA) Rod Sobey (UK) Ruairi Maciver (UK) S.M.Ghiaasiaan (USA) Stanley Berger (USA) Takιo Takahashi (France) Vassilis Gekas (Sweden) Yinping Zhang (China) Yoshitaka Watanabe (Japan) Ivan Kazachkov (Sweden)