Advanced composites are revolutionizing virtually every aspect of Mechanical Engineering, including thermal management. Industrial applications are now the largest user of composites, outstripping aerospace and sports equipment. There are now an extremely large and increasing number of applications, including: wind turbines; oil and natural gas exploration and production; natural gas and hydrogen vehicle storage tanks; high-speed and precision machinery; coordinate measuring machines; optomechanical systems; semiconductor manufacturing equipment; robots; automobile and truck engines, bodies, brakes and clutches; flywheels; gas turbine engines; process industries equipment; data storage equipment; x-ray and other medical diagnostic equipment; prosthetics and orthotics; electronic and optoelectronic packaging.
In addition to outstanding strength and stiffness and low densities, composites offer unique and tailorable physical properties, including thermal conductivities many times that of copper and thermal expansions that can be varied from high to near zero. Composites and other advanced materials, some with ultrahigh thermal conductivities (several times that of copper), are now used in thermal management applications, such as motor cover/heat sinks, servers, notebook computers, power modules, plasma displays, printed circuit boards, heat sinks, laser diode packages and radiators.
Composites include a wide range of polymeric, metallic and ceramic materials having both high-temperature and low-temperature capabilities, making them useful for applications such as gas turbine engines, automobile and aircraft brakes, process industries equipment and cryogenic systems.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Advantages and disadvantages and properties of the four classes of composites: polymer matrix, metal matrix, ceramic matrix and carbon matrix
Key reinforcements and matrix materials
Revolutionary advances in thermal management materials
Industrial, commercial and aerospace/defense applications
How to design cost-effective, reliable products, avoiding common pitfalls
Manufacturing methods
Nondestructive evaluation
Lessons learned
Future trends, including nanocomposites

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Job titles: design engineers, analysts, materials engineers and scientists, manufacturing engineers, quality assurance engineers, engineering managers, R&D engineers and scientists, product development engineers
Industries: power generation and storage; automotive; aerospace/defense; process industries; high-speed machinery; precision machinery; optomechanical systems; biomedical; medical equipment, including x-ray, computer-aided tomography, magnetic resonance imaging; electronic, laser diode, LED and MEMS packaging