Overview of the Paper Flow Process

The ASME Peer Review Management System (Webtool) is a web-based planning tool that allows conference organizers and potential authors to submit and manage their technical content online. Once an author submits a paper, he/she initiates the process of reviewing and accepting technical papers for publication and presentation at the conference. Author submits an abstract to […]

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Administrative Roles/Responsibilities

Note: For purposes of this Help Guide, the most common titles for each role have been used.  Other titles may fulfill the same or a similar function and are noted below.  Also, responsibilities may vary with a particular role depending on the specific conference organization and/or procedures. Technical Program Chair As a Technical Program Chair, […]

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Live Help Office Hours

ASME offers help center calls on every Tuesday at 10:00 am ET and Thursday at 2:00 pm ET. Authors and Organizers can call in and receive one-on-one technical support from the Conference E-Tools Team. Tuesday, 10:00-10:30 am ET Call Info JOIN ZOOM MEETING>>> Meeting ID: 812 794 064Password: 708266One Tap Mobile:+19292056099,,812794064# US (New York)+16699006833,,812794064# US […]

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Manage Session Organizers

In this article we will cover how to add a session organizer to each individual session, to provide additional users the ability to manage them. View Your Sessions Log in to the OpenWater portal and on the left side navigation, click My Sessions. You should see a list of sessions that you are responsible for […]

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Create Sessions & Assign Session Organizers

Each track in an ASME conference is typically broken up into a series of sessions. The track organizer oversees all the sessions within their track, but each individual session also has one or more session organizers. Before going into ASME specifics, it would benefit the reader to go through the online help guide for session […]

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Schedule Sessions onto the Calendar

Depending on the conference, the actual placement of the sessions on the scheduler can take place either earlier on in the workflow or after papers have come in. In either case, the process is the same. Configure the Scheduler Setting up the scheduler for ASME is pretty straight forward. Go to Sessions > Scheduler Configuration. […]

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