1997 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Janet Hunziker

Director, Frontiers of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

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THIRD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING
Chair: Robert H. Wagoner, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University

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The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to a number of meeting sponsors for their support of the 2003 USFOE Symposium.

Program

Biomechanics
Sensors and Control for Manufacturing Processes
Safety and Security Issues
Decision-Making Tools for Design and Manufacturing
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Dinner Speech

Biomechanics
Organizers: Paul Nielan and Sheri Sheppard

Introduction
Janie M. Fouke, National Science Foundation

The Biomechanics of Cells and Cell-Matrix Interactions
Farshid Guilak, Duke University

Mechanical Influences on Bone Development and Adaptation
Marjolein C. H. van der Meulen, Cornell University

Implant Design and Technology
Avram Allan Edidin, Osteonics Corporation

Sensors and Control for Manufacturing Processes
Organizers: Richard Parnas and Shawn Walsh

Process Control for Chemical Production: An Industrial Success Story
Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, DuPont Central Research and Development

Design and Applications of Opitcal Fiber Sensors
Kent A. Murphy, F&S, Inc. and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Emerging Control Structures
Angela L. Moran, U.S. Naval Academy

Safety and Security Issues
Organizers: Elsa Reichmanis and Daniel Hastings

Air Traffic Control Modeling
Kathryn T. Heimerman, MITRE Corporation

The Role of Nondestructive Evaluation in Life Cycle Management
Harry E. Martz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Quadrupole Resonance Explosive Detection Systems
Timothy Rayner, Quantum Magnetics

Challenges of Probabilistic Risk Analysis
Vicki M. Bier, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Decision-Making Tools for Design and Manufacturing
Organizers: Charlotte Chen-Tsai and Deborah Thurston

Variation Risk Management in Product Development
Anna C. Thornton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Multicriteria Evaluation of Manufacturing Performance
Angela Locascio, Motorola Corporate Manufacturing Research Center

Intelligent Transporation Systems
Organizers: Gene Hawkins and Connie Gutowski

Intelligent Information for Transportation Management
Christopher M. Poe, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University

Automated Hightway Systems
Akash R. Deshpande, California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways, University of California, Berkeley

Dinner Speech

Working Together in the Twenty-First Century
Philip M. Condit, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Boeing Company