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Thu, June 28, 2018
Eighty-four of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 24th annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the 2 1/2 day event. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations.
The 2018 USFOE will be hosted by MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, Sept. 5-7, and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: Quantum Computing, Technology for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, Resilient and Reliable Infrastructure, and Theranostics.
“It is critically important to bring young engineers from different technical areas together to spark innovation,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr. “The Frontiers of Engineering program does this by creating a space for talented engineers to learn from each other and expand their technical perspectives early in their careers. Congratulations to this year’s FOE participants.”
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Margaret Ackerman
Dartmouth College
Amir Ali Ahmadi
Princeton University
Jenna Balestrini
Draper Laboratory
Lee Bassett
University of Pennsylvania
Muyinatu Bell
Johns Hopkins University
Matthew Brenner
Bechtel
Ashley Brown
North Carolina State University and UNC Chapel Hill
Brett Byram
Vanderbilt University
Justin Cacciatore
Procter & Gamble
David Camarillo
Stanford University
John Cannarella
DowDuPont
Adrian Caulfield
Microsoft
Sonia Chernova
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mikhail Chester
Arizona State University
Soon-Jo Chung
California Institute of Technology
Brian Cromer
Arkema Inc.
Andrew Detor
GE Global Research
Tarik Dickens
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Megan Donaldson
Dow Chemical Co.
Jeff Dusek
Olin College of Engineering
Scott Eastman
United Technology Research Center
Amy Elliott
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Brian Ellis
University of Michigan
Sam Emaminejad
University of California, Los Angeles
Dirk Englund
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeff Fowler
Xerox Corp.
Talia Gershon
IBM
Razi-ul Haque
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Nicole Hashemi
Iowa State University
Alex Hegyi
PARC
Brandon Heimer
Sandia National Laboratories
Amanda Hughes
Geosyntec Consultants
Gaurav Jain
Medtronic
Matthew Johnson
Google
Steven Jung
MO-SCI Corp.
Neha Kamat
Northwestern University
Ahmad Khalil
Boston University
Emily Kinser
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
Yale University
Megan Kreiger
US Army Corps of Engineers
Spencer Lake
Washington University, St. Louis
Camille Lewis
Lockheed Martin
Mark Losego
Abhijit Mallick
Applied Materials
Josh McCall
Humacyte, Inc.
Donald Metzler
Ashley Micks
Ford Motor Co.
Giovanni Milione
NEC Laboratories America
Kristin Myers
Columbia University
Michelle O'Malley
University of California, Santa Barbara
Christopher O'Neill
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Jennifer Pazour
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Susan Peterson
Hoifung Poon
Taylor Pratt
GE Aviation
Rapeepat Ratasuk
Nokia Bell Labs
Heather Reed
Thornton Tomasetti
Erica Rodgers
NASA Headquarters
Alejandro Rodriguez
Adrianne Rosales
University of Texas, Austin
Emily Sarver
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ketan Savla
University of Southern California
Kathryn Schumacher
General Motors
Christopher Semisch
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Kalpana Seshadrinathan
Intel
Asma Sharafi
Matthew Sheehan
U.S. Navy
Charles Sing
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Sontag
Logan Sorenson
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Lauren Stadler
Rice University
Clay Sutton
ExxonMobil Research & Development Co
Scott Swensen
Exponent, Inc.
Doug Taylor
Schweitzer Engineering
Susan Thomas
Joshua Thompson
Chevron Energy Technology Co.
Jesse Tice
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Corey Trobaugh
Cummins
Kiu-Yuen Tse
3M Co.
Jade Wang
Andrew Whelton
Purdue University
Tim White
Air Force Research Laboratory
Brent Woods
Ball Aerospace and Technology Corp.
Victor Zavala
University of Wisconsin
Organizing Committee:
Jennifer West (Chair)
Duke University
Jerry Chow
Francesca D'Arcangelo
Rebekah Drezek
Darrell Irvine
Grace Metcalfe
US Army Research Laboratory
Mira Olson
Drexel University
Julie Pietrzak
STV
Iris Tien
Speakers:
Willow Brugh
MIT Center for Civic Media
Sara Gamble
Army Research Office
Robert Hanson
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Marissa Jablonski
USAID
Darshan Karwat
Shelby Kimmel
Middlebury College
Ester Kwon
University of California, San Diego
Frank Matranga
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Judith Mitrani-Reiser
Firas Saleh
Jupiter
Evan Scott
Sarah Sheldon
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Andrew Tsourkas
Josh Vertalka
Resilient Solutions 21
Norman Yao
University of California, Berkeley
Sponsors for the 2018 US Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DOD ASDR&E Laboratories Office, Microsoft Research, and Cummins.
The mission of the NAE is to advance the well-being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshalling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology. The NAE is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to provide objective analysis and advice to the nation on matters of science, technology, and health.