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The 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering will be held September 22-24 at the National Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, California. About 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Resilience in Pandemics: Data and Digital Infrastructure for Informed Decision-Making; Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure; Transforming the Climate Change Discussion: the Role of Direct Air Capture; and Investigating the Final Frontier: Engineering the Future of Space Exploration. The goal of the Frontiers of Engineering program is to bring together engineers from all engineering disciplines and from industry, universities, and federal labs to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange and promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields in order to sustain and build US innovative capacity.
We are grateful to our sponsors for their support.
The preliminary program is available here. More information will be posted as the program develops.
LIST OF SESSIONS (Working titles listed. Order of sessions TBD.)
Chair: Timothy Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology
RESILIENCE IN PANDEMICS: DATA AND DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INFORMED DECISION- MAKING Session Co-chairs: Jessilyn Dunn, Duke University, and Jennifer Pazour, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Digitalization of Biomedical Manufacturing Sarah Neilsen, Janssen Supply Chain
Improved Healthcare Decision-making through Data and Advanced Mathematical Modeling Karen Hicklin, University of Florida
COVID-19 Testing Strategies and Data Infrastructure Peter Frazier, Cornell University
The Impact of COVID-19 on Frontline Educational Workers Samantha Keppler, University of Michigan
CYBERSECURITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE Session Co-chairs: Katherine Davis, Texas A&M University, and Roman Danyliw, Carnegie Mellon University
State of Infrastructure Security Jason Hill, Department of Homeland Security
Cybersecurity and Wind Farms Peter MacKay, General Electric
Threat-informed Defenses for Industrial Control Systems Adam Hahn, MITRE Corporation
TRANSFORMING THE CLIMATE CHANGE DISCUSSION: THE ROLE OF DIRECT AIR CAPTURE Session Co-chairs: Ryan Lively, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Mica Taborga Claure, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
The Unique Challenges Posed by Direct Air Capture for Chemistry and Engineering Simon Pang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Rules are Easy, The Game is Hard: The Development of Successful DAC Technologies Maxime Tornier, Climeworks
A Fundamentals-based Approach for Scale-up of DAC Technology Rodrigo Blanco Gutierrez, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Policy Landscape and Needs for Advancing Direct Air Capture Colin McCormick, Carbon Direct and Georgetown University
INVESTIGATING THE FINAL FRONTIER: ENGINEERING THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION Session Co-chairs: Allison Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder, Jessica Samuels, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Design of Space Systems to Enable In-space Assembly and Servicing Bo Naasz, NASA
Exploring Time and Space: The Future of Space-based Astronomical Observatories Allison Barto, Ball Aerospace
Gathering Asteroid Dust Using OSIRIS-REx Images Daniella DellaGiustina, University of Arizona
Mars-Walking: Enabling Capabilities for Crew Health and Performance during Exploration Extravehicular Activity Andrew Abercromby, NASA Johnson Space Center