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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#323232">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#323232">The abstract submission for the 2023 International Annual Conference (IAC) of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) is now open. The 2023 conference theme is "Climbing Higher with Engineering
Management", given that we will be in the mile high city of Denver, CO. The conference will be held from October 24 to 28, 2023 at The Curtis Denver, A Doubletree by Hilton and hosted by University of Colorado, Boulder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#323232">The ASEM International Annual Conference is a<em><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> present-to-publish</span></em> conference. All papers submitted will be subject to double-blind peer-review.
Authors can choose between presentation-only or paper-submission. The topics for ASEM IAC are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Engineering Management Technical Tracks:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Leadership and organizational management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Strategic planning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Financial resource planning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Project and program management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Operations, quality, and supply chain management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Management of technology, research and development<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Systems science and engineering (pertaining to engineering management)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Legal issues in engineering management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Professional codes of conduct and ethics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Engineering management education, skills, and profession<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Marketing and sales management in engineering organization<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Emerging areas of EM such as critical infrastructure, energy systems, healthcare, decision analysis, safety science, entrepreneurship and innovation, data analytics, machine learning, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">NEW!</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Practitioner and Industry Track: This track provides an opportunity to highlight key insights and new application challenges that arise from real
world implementations of engineering management practice and theory. Papers should include thorough and detailed descriptions of activities that have implications for practicing managers, for education, and research of emerging and current engineering management
issues. Topics can include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Best practices and lessons learned in engineering and technical management, Personnel management practice including ethics and bias in engineering management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Continuous support and improvement of deployed systems, Improvement in implementation at speed, scale, and low-cost, Life cycle analysis from design to deployment and retirement<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Case studies <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Handling unexpected events and behavior, including risk management methods, Negative results related to real-world applications, Testing or implementing novel or previously unsolved engineering management problems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Insights on the practice of engineering management that provoke practitioner level discussions on application and implementation or expand and challenge the practice and methodologies of the engineering management discipline.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#323232">Note: </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#323232">Papers in the Practitioner and Industry Track will be peer-reviewed through a separate peer-review process with review
criteria and standards for application-based papers. Papers submitted to the Practitioner and Industry Track will be included in the conference proceedings as a separate category of papers from the Technical Track papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:22.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Important Dates</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">March 6, 2023 - Abstract submission system closes</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Abstracts for technical presentations (required for both paper-submission and presentation-only)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Abstracts for workshops, panels, tutorials, and special sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">March 27, 2023 - Abstract acceptance notification<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">May 30, 2023 - Deadline for:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Paper submission for double-blinded peer review (Optional if presentation-only work)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Completed proposal for workshops, panels, and tutorials<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">July 10, 2023 - Paper acceptance notification<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">July 24, 2023 - Final (camera-ready) papers submission (reviewer comments must be addressed)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">August 7, 2023 - Final paper acceptance notification<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">August 21, 2023 - Presenting author registration deadline (Papers/presentations will be removed from schedule if at least one author not registered)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#323232;margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">September 11, 2023 - Preliminary Technical Presentation schedule published<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SITE:
</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><a href="https://asem2023.exordo.com/"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">https://asem2023.exordo.com/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">CONFERENCE INFORMATION: </span></b><a href="https://asem.org/Conference"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">https://asem.org/Conference</span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#323232">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#323232">Gana Natarajan, Ean Ng, Hao Zhang, and Christy Bozic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#323232">ASEM 2023 IAC Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Gana Natarajan, Ph.D.,CPEM®,F.ASEM</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496">Conference Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496">American Society for Engineering Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496"><a href="mailto:iac@asem.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">iac@asem.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496"><a href="https://asem.org/Conference"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://asem.org/Conference</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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