SPE Sets Dates For ACCE
By Staff | April 2008
The organizing committee for the Society of Plastics Engineers SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE) recently announced the dates, theme and location for this year’s show and issued its annual Call for Papers. The event returns Sept. 16-18, 2008, to the Michigan State University (MSU) Management Education Center in Troy, Mich. This year’s conference theme is “The Road to Lightweight Performance,” says returning event chair Dale Brosius, COO of Quickstep Technologies (Brighton, Mich.). “It reflects the progress transportation OEMs, tier suppliers, and composites producers have made in taking weight out and improving the performance of vehicles by replacing metal and glass with lightweight, impact- and corrosion-resistant polymer composites,” he says. Those interested in speaking at this year’s event should submit abstracts as soon as possible to the review committee via accepapers@speautomotive.com. Full papers or presentations are due May 30, 2008. Authors who submit papers (not presentations) in the proper format by the due date will automatically be eligible for consideration for the conference’s Best Paper Awards, which will be presented during the event’s opening ceremony.
For more information about the SPE Automotive Composites Conference, visit the SPE Composites’ Division’s Web site at www.4spe.org/communities/divisions/d39.php, or the Automotive Division’s Web site at www.speautomotive.com/comp.htm.
