Final Report
4M/ICOMM2015 has been a record breaking conference
with 140 high technical quality papers selected for oral presentation,
covering the whole range of micromachining technologies. The Conference figures and statistics are shown in
the following presentation:
Proceedings Conference proceedings are available online. (Check the conference final program at Scientific
program page) Awards Best paper: “Experimental Investigation of the Effect of
Dielectric Conductivity on Characteristics of Micro-EDM Process”
Soham S. Mujumdar, Shiv G. Kapoor and Davide Curreli (University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Honourable mentions: • “Dimensional accuracy and deformation
behaviours in meso-scaled progressive forming of two-level flanged parts”
M.W. Fu, B. Meng and C.M. Fu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) • “Replication of prismatic microstructures
by electromagnetic embossing” Lasse Langstädtler, Lars
Schönemann, Arne Bloem, Christian Schenck and Bernd Kuhfuss
(Universtity of Bremen) • “A study to improve shape accuracy of
the hole drilled by micro EDM”, Yunn-Shiuan Liao, Chang-Sheng
Lin and Yao-Yang Tsai (National Taiwan University) Elena Ulieru Innovation
Award: Rossella Surace for
her presentation of the paper "Design and fabrication of a polymeric
micro-filter" Student Poster Competition: • James Lowrie for his paper titled
“Scalability of conventional tube hydroforming processes from
macro to micro/meso” • Sudhanshu Nahata for his paper titled
“Experimental investigation of radial
throw in miniature spindles used for micromachining” 1th 4M/ICOMM
AITeM Photo Contest: • Lin Zhang, Pengyi Tang, Lijuan Han, Yabin
Zhang, Li Zhang (“Summer flower”) • Marco Sorgato (“Human mesenchymal
stem cells differentiation over a nano pillared surface made by micro
injection moulding”)
With more than 230 attendees of which 15% coming from industry, 4M/ICOMM2015 has
been defined by 4M Association its most successful conference.