| International Scientific Committee (Sorted by Surname) | 
                          
						    | Wolfgang Achtziger | Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany | 
                          
						    | Natalia Alexandrov | NASA, United States | 
                          
						    | Grégoire Allaire | Ecole Polytechnique,
France | 
					      
						    | Oded Amir | Israel Institute of Technology, Israel | 
                          
						    | Jasbir S. Arora | University of Iowa, United States | 
                          
						    | Shapour Azarm | University of Maryland, United States | 
                          
						    | Hideyuki Azegami | Nagoya University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Horst Baier | Technische Universität München, Germany | 
                          
						    | Vladimir Balabanov | Boeing Company, United States | 
                          
						    | Martin P. Bendsøe | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark | 
						  
						    | Kai-Uwe Bletzinger | Technische Universität München, Germany | 
						  
						    | Piotr Breitkopf | Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France | 
                          
						    | Tadeusz Burczyński | Silesian University of Technology, Poland | 
                           
						    | Wei Chen | Northwestern University, United States | 
                          
						    | Yuhang Chen | Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom | 
						  
						    | Gengdong Cheng | Dalian University of Technology, China | 
						  
						    | Andrej V. Cherkaev | University of Utah, United States | 
                          
						    | Seon Ho Cho | Seoul National University, South Korea | 
                          
						    | Dong-Hoon Choi | Hanyang University, South Korea | 
                          
						    | Joo Ho Choi | Korea Aerospace University, Korea | 
                          
						    | Kyung K. (KK) Choi | The University of Iowa, United States | 
                          
						    |  | Seoul National University, South Korea | 
                          
						    | Souma Chowdhury | University of Syracuse, United States | 
                          
						    | William A. Crossley | Purdue University, United States | 
                          
						    | Alejandro R. Diaz | Michigan State University, United States | 
                          
						    | Jianbin Du | Tsinghua University, China | 
                          
						    | Xiaoping Du | Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States | 
                          
						    | Baoyan Duan | Xidian University, China | 
                          
						    | Pierre Duysinx | University of Liege, Belgium | 
                          
						    | Peter Eberhard | University of Stuttgart, Germany | 
                          
						    | L.F. Pascal Etman | Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands | 
                          
						    | Anton Evgrafov | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway | 
                          
						    | Georges M. Fadel | Clemson University, United States | 
                          
						    | Brian G. Falzon | Queen’s  University Belfast, United Kingdom | 
                          
						    | Howie Fang | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States | 
                          
						    | Hitoshi Furuta | Kansai University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Hiroshi Furuya | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | 
                           
						    | Moshe B. Fuchs | Tel Aviv University, Israel | 
                          
						    | Manuel Garcia | EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia | 
                          
						    | Hae Chang Gea | Rutgers University, United States | 
                          
						    | Ramana V. Grandhi | Wright State University, United States | 
                          
						    | Albert Groenwold | University of Stellenbosch, South Africa | 
                          
						    | Jose Miranda Guedes | University of Lisbon, Portugal | 
                          
						    | James K. Guest | Johns Hopkins University, United States | 
                          
						    | Xu Guo | Dalian University of Technology, China | 
                          
						    | Zafer Gürdal | University of South Carolina, United States | 
                          
						    | Sergio Gutiérrez | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile | 
                          
						    | Witold Gutkowski | Institute of Mechanized Construction and Rock Mining, Poland | 
                          
						    | Raphael (Rafi) Haftka | University of Florida, United States | 
                          
						    | Prabhat Hajela | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States | 
                          
						    | Xu Han | Hunan University, China | 
                          
						    | Jose Herskovits | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 
                          
						    | Shujuan Hou | Hunan University, China | 
                          
						    | Károly Jármai | University of Miskolc, Hungary | 
                          
						    | Héctor Jensen | Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile | 
                          
						    | Sándor Kaliszky | Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary | 
                          
						    | Zhan Kang | Dalian University of Technology, China | 
                          
						    | Bhushan L Karihaloo | Cardiff University, United Kingdom | 
                          
						    | Harrison Hyung Min Kim | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States | 
                          
						    | H. Alicia Kim | Bath University, United Kingdom | 
                          
						    | Nam-Ho Kim | University of Florida, United States | 
                          
						    | Yoon Young Kim | Seoul National University, South Korea | 
                          
						    | Uri Kirsch | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel | 
                          
						    | Satoshi Kitayama | Kanazawa University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Anders Klarbing | Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden | 
                          
						    | Nozomu Kogiso | Osaka Prefecture University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Robert V. Kohn | New York University, United States | 
                          
						    | Michael Kokkolaras | McGill University, Canada | 
                          
						    | Juhani Koski | Tampere University of Technology, Finland | 
                          
						    | Byung Man Kwak | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea | 
                          
						    | Tae Hee Lee | Hanyang University, Korea | 
                          
						    | Jaan Lellep | University of Tartu, Estonia | 
                          
						    | Tomasz Lewiński | Warsaw University of Technology, Poland | 
                          
						    | Gang Li | Dalian University of Technology, China | 
                          
						    | Guangyao Li | Hunan University, China | 
                          
						    | Shutian Liu | Dalian University of Technology, China | 
                          
						    | János Lógó | Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary | 
                          
						    | Sankaran Mahadavan | Vanderbilt University, United States | 
                          
						    | Giulio Maier | Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, Italy | 
                          
						    | Joaquim R. R. A. Martins | University of Michigan, United States | 
                          
						    | Kurt Maute | University of Colorado at Boulder, United States | 
                          
						    | Robert E. Melchers | The University of Newcastle, Australia | 
                          
						    | Carlos A. Mota Soares | Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal | 
                          
						    | Achille Messac | Mississippi State University, United States | 
                          
						    | Zenon Mróz | Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland | 
                          
						    | Somanath Nagendra | General Electric Corporate Research and Development, United States | 
                          
						    | Shinji Nishiwaki | Kyoto University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Julian Norato | University of Connecticut, United States | 
                          
						    | Makoto Ohsaki | Kyoto University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Niels Olhoff | Aalborg University, Denmark | 
                          
						    | Manolis Papadrakakis | National Technical University of Athens, Greece | 
                          
						    | Panos Y. Papalambros | University of Michigan, United States | 
                          
						    | Gyung-Jin Park | Hanyang University, South Korea | 
                          
						    | Glaucio H. Paulino | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States | 
                          
						    | Niels Leergaard Pedersen | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark | 
                          
						    | Pauli Pedersen | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark | 
                          
						    | Osvaldo M. Querin | University of Leeds, United Kingdom | 
                          
						    | Ulf Ringertz | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | 
                          
						    | Helder C. Rodrigues | Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal | 
                          
						    | David Romero | University of Toronto, Canada | 
                          
						    | Jianhua Rong | Changsha University of Science and Technology, China | 
                          
						    | George Rozvany | Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary | 
                          
						    | Johann Sienz | Swansea University, UK | 
                          
						    | Ole Sigmund | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark | 
                          
						    | Emílio Carlos Nelli Silva | Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo, Brazil | 
                          
						    | Mehmet Polat Saka | University of Bahrain, Bahrain | 
                          
						    | Eckart Schnack | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany | 
                          
						    | Alexander P. Seyranian | Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia | 
                          
						    | Nielen Stander | Livermore Software Technology Corporation, Livermore, United States | 
                          
						    | Yunkang Sui | Beijing University of Technology, China | 
                          
						    | Krister Svanberg | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | 
                          
						    | Yuiko Tada | Kobe University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Shashi Talya | Baker Hughes, United States | 
                          
						    | Akira Todoroki | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | 
                          
						    | Vassili Toropov | Queen Mary University of London, UK | 
                          
						    | Daniel A. Tortorelli | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States | 
                          
						    | F. Van Keulen | Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands | 
                          
						    | Felipe A. C. Viana | University of Florida, United States | 
                          
						    | Michael Yu Wang | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China | 
                          
						    | Gaofeng Gary Wang | Simon Fraser University, Canada | 
                          
						    | Semyung Wang | Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea | 
                          
                            | Takayuki Yamada | Kyoto University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Hiroshi Yamakawa | Waseda University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Koetsu Yamazaki | Kanazawa University, Japan | 
                          
						    | Ren-Jye  Yang | Ford Motor Company, United States | 
                          
						    | Byeng Dong Youn | Seoul National University, South Korea | 
                          
						    | Sung-Kie Youn | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea | 
                          
						    | Nicholas Zabaras | University of Warwick, United Kingdom | 
                          
						    | Weihong Zhang | Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China | 
                          
						    | Jianshun (Jensen) Zhang | University of Syracuse, United States | 
                          
						    | Ming Zhou | Altair Engineering Inc., United States |