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Past MWSCAS Symposia

Foundational Era | Growth Era | Modern Era

Foundational Era (1955–1979)

No. Year Location Date Chair
1st 1955 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Spring 1955 Ray M. Wainwright and Myril B. Reed
2nd 1956 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Fall 1956 Ray M. Wainwright and Myril B. Reed
3rd 1958 Iowa State University, Ames IA Spring 1958 Warren B. Boast
4th 1959 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Fall 1959 (If you know, please email Michael Soderstrand)
5th 1961 University of Illinois, Urbana IL Spring 1961 (Mac Van Valkenburg)
6th 1963 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Spring 1963 Thomas J. Higgins
7th 1964 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Spring 1964 Alan B. Macnee
8th 1965 Colorado State university, Ft. Collins, CO Spring 1965 Ray M. Wainwright
9th 1966 Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Spring 1966 W.A. Blackwell
10th 1967 Purdue University, Lafayette, IN Spring 1967 Ben J. Leon
11th 1968 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Spring 1968 Basil R. Meyers, Ruey-Wen Liu, and John J. Uhran, Jr.
12th 1969 University of Texas, Austin, TX Spring 1969 A.J. Aggarwal
13th 1970 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Spring 1970 B.A. Shenoi
14th 1971 University of Denver, Denver, CO May 6-7, 1971 Ray M. Wainwright
15th 1972 University of Missouri, Rolla, MO May 4-5, 1972 Edward C. Bertnolli
16th 1973 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada April 8-11, 1973 P.H. Roe
17th 1974 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Sept. 16-17, 1974 Gerry L. Kelly
18th 1975 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Aug. 11-12, 1975 M.N.S. Swamy
19th 1976 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Aug. 16-17, 1976 J.D. McPherson
20th 1977 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Aug. 15-17, 1977 R. Saeks and K.S. Chao
21st 1978 Iowa State University, Ames, IA Aug. 15-17, 1978 H.W. Hale and A.N. Michel
22nd 1979 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA June 17-19, 1979 S. D. Bedrosian

Growth Era (1980–1999)

No. Year Location Date Chair
23rd 1980 University of Toledo, Toledo, OH Aug. 4-5, 1980 Arthur R. Thorbjornsen and George W. Zobrist
24th 1981 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM June 29-30, 1981 S. Karni and P. Dorato
25th 1982 Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI Aug. 30-31, 1982 Paul H. Lewis and R. Eugene Stuffle
26th 1983 INAOE, Puebla, Mexico Aug. 15-16, 1983 Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio and Don L. Kendall
27th 1984 West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV June 11-12, 1984 Wafsy B. Mikhael
28th 1985 University of Louisville, Louisville, KY Aug. 19-20, 1985 Peter Aronhime and Jacek Zurada
29th 1986 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Aug. 11-12, 1986 Mohammed Ismail
30th 1987 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Aug. 17-18, 1987 Glenn Glasford and Norman Balabanaian
31st 1988 University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO Aug. 9-12, 1988 Eugene Stuffle
32nd 1989 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Aug. 14-16, 1989 W. Kenneth Jenkins
33rd 1990 Calgary Convention Center, Calgary, Canada Aug. 12-15, 1990 R.H. Johnston
34th 1991 Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA May 14-17, 1991 Sherif Michael
35th 1992 George Washington University, Washington DC Aug. 9-12, 1992 Mona E. Zaghloul
36th 1993 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Aug. 16-18, 1993 Michael P. Polis
37th 1994 University of Southern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA Aug. 3-5, 1994 Magdi Bayoumi
38th 1995 Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Aug. 13-16, 1995 L.P. Caloba
39th 1996 Iowa State University, Ames, IA Aug. 18-21, 1996 Marwan Hassoun
40th 1997 Hyatt-Regency Hotel Sacramento, CA (UC Davis) Aug. 3-6, 1997 Michael A. Soderstrand
41st 1998 Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN Aug, 1998 Robert L. Stevenson
42nd 1999 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Aug, 1999 Jaime Ramirez-Angulo

Modern Era (2000–2026)

No. Year Location Date Chair
43rd 2000 Michigan State University, Lansing, MI Aug. 8-11, 2000 Fathi Salem
44th 2001 Wright State University & Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton Ohio Aug. 13-17, 2001 Robert L. Ewing
45th 2002 Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK Aug 4-7, 2002 Michael A. Soderstrand; Rao Yarlagadda
46th 2003 Hilton Hotel, Cairo, Egypt Dec 27-30, 2003 Nadder Hamdy and Magdy Bayoumi
47th 2004 International Conference Center, Hiroshima, Japan July 25-28, 2004 Takao Hinamoto
48th 2005 Radisson Hotel, Cincinnati, OH Aug 7-10, 2005 Carla Purdy and Hal Carter
49th 2006 San Juan Marriott Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico Aug 6-9, 2006 Rogelio Palomera-Garcia and Manuel Jimenez
50th 2007 Montreal Chateau Champlain, Montreal, Quebec Canada Aug 5-8, 2007 Mohamad Sawan
51st 2008 Knoxville, TN Aug 10-13, 2008 Itamar Elhanany and Don Bouldin
52nd 2009 Cancun, Mexico Aug 2-5, 2009 Héctor Pérez Meana
53rd 2010 Seattle, WA Aug 1-4, 2010 José Delgado-Frias
54th 2011 Seoul, Republic of Korea Aug 7-10, 2011 Michael A. Soderstrand
55th 2012 Boise, Idaho (USA) Aug 5-8, 2012 Nader Rafla
56th 2013 Columbus, OH (USA) Aug 4-7, 2013 Steve Bibyk
57th 2014 Texas A&M, College Station, TX (USA) Aug 3-6, 2014 Jose Silva-Marinez
58th 2015 Colorado State Univ. Ft. Collins, CO (USA) Aug 2-5, 2015 Tom Chen
59th 2016 Abu Dhabi, UAE. Oct 16-19, 2016 Mohammed Ismail
60th 2017 Tufts University, Boston, MA August 6-9, 2017 Michael Soderstrand Antonio de la Serna
61st 2018 Windsor, Ontario, Candada August 5-8, 2018 Majid Ahmadi; Magdy Bayoumi
62nd 2019 Dallas, Texas August 4–7, 2019 Hoi Lee; Randall Geiger
63rd 2020 Springfield, Massachusetts August 9–12, 2020 Neeraj Magotra; Ayman Elwakil
64th 2021 Lansing, Michigan August 9–11, 2021 Fathi Salem
65th 2022 Fukuoka, Japan August 7–10, 2022 Vasily Moshnyaga; Hidetoshi Onodera
66th 2023 Phoenix, Arizona August 6–9, 2023 Pamela Abshire; Jennifer Blain-Christen
67th 2024 Springfield, Massachusetts August 11–14, 2024 Neeraj Magotra; Randall Geiger
68th 2025 Lansing, Michigan August 10–13, 2025 Andrew Mason; Navid Yazdi
69th 2026 Cincinnati, Ohio August 9–12, 2026 Soumyajit Mandal; Rashmi Jha