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The 2011 US Frontiers of Engineering was held September 19-21, 2011, at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.. About 100 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Additive Manufacturing, Engineering Sustainable Buildings, Semantic Processing, and Neuroprosthetics. 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 U.S. innovative capacity. The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to a number of meeting sponsors for their support of the 2011 USFOE Symposium. Photo album from 2011 USFOE Click on the links below to view the presentations: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Session co-chairs: Carolyn Seepersad, University of Texas at Austin, and Michael Siemer, Mydea Technologies Corporation Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Technology Introduction and Business Implications Brent Stucker, University of Louisville Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace: Examples and Research Outlook Brett Lyons, The Boeing Company
Additive Manufacturing is Changing Surgery Andrew Christensen, Medical Modeling, Inc. The Shape of Things to Come: Frontiers in Additive Manufacturing Hod Lipson, Cornell University
SEMANTIC PROCESSING Session co-chairs: Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, and Amarnag Subramanya, Google
Automatic Text Understanding of Content and Text Quality Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania Advancing Natural Language Understanding with Collaboratively Generated Content Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research Large Scale Visual Semantic Extraction Samy Bengio, Google Research Searching for Statistical Diagrams Michael Cafarella, University of Michigan
ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS Session co-chairs: Annie Pearce, Virginia Tech, and John Zhai, University of Colorado Challenges and Opportunities for Low-Carbon Buildings John Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Expanding Design Spaces John Haymaker, Design Process Innovation
Opportunities and Challenges for Multi-Scale Modeling of Sustainable Buildings Jelena Srebric, Pennsylvania State University
Accelerating Green Building Market Transformation with Information Technology Christopher Pyke, U.S. Building Council NEUROPROSTHETICS Session co-chairs: Timothy Denison, Medtronic, and Justin Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Retinal Prosthetic Systems for Treatment of Blindness James Weiland, University of Southern California The Evolution of Neuroprosthetics Eric Leuthardt, Washington University
Ultra Low Power Biomedical and Bio-inspired Systems Rahul Sarpeshkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology