Creative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2012 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thu, June 21, 2012

WASHINGTON, June 21, 2012 —

Seventy-eight of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 18th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering 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 and chosen from approximately 300 applicants.

“Our nation’s health, quality of life, and security will depend on the engineering achievements of the 21^st century,” said NAE President Charles M. Vest. “The Frontiers of Engineering program gives young engineering pioneers the opportunity to collaborate and share approaches across fields. We believe those interactions will generate new ideas for improving the future.”

The symposium will be held on Sept. 13-15, 2012, at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., and will examine serious games, vehicle electrification, climate engineering, and engineering materials for the biological interface. Alan I. Taub, retired vice president of General Motors global research and development, will be a featured speaker at the symposium.

The following engineers were selected as general participants:

Pieter Abbeel	University of California, Berkeley
Andrea Armani	University of Southern California
Muhannad Bakir	Georgia Institute of Technology
Billy Bardin	Dow Chemical Co.
Halil Berberoglu	University of Texas, Austin
Alexandra Boltasseva	Purdue University
David Brumley	Carnegie Mellon University
Xi Chen	Columbia University
Gian Colombo	Carpenter Technology
Xiquan Cui	Qualcomm Inc.
Frank DelRio	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jennifer Dionne	Stanford University
Nathan Domagalski	Bristol-Myers Squibb
Ayman EL-Refaie	GE Global Research
Michael Escuti	North Carolina State University
Joelle Frechette	Johns Hopkins University
Yan Fu	Ford Motor Co.
Weiying Gao	DuPont
David Garrett	Broadcom Corp.
Brian Gerkey	Willow Garage
Sayata Ghose	Boeing Co.
Anindya Ghoshal	U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Jordan Green	Johns Hopkins University
Piyush Gupta	Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Robert Hampshire	Carnegie Mellon University
Jessica Harrison	DNV KEMA Energy and Sustainability
Steve Hartmann	Medtronic
Reed Hendershot	Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
Elizabeth Hillman	Columbia University
Jeremy Hollman	Aurora Flight Sciences
Mona Jarrahi	University of Michigan
Michael Jewett	Northwestern University
Suzette Johnson	Northrop Grumman
Anupama Kaul	National Science Foundation
Scott Klemmer	Stanford University
LaShanda Teresa Korley	Case Western Reserve University
Christopher Kruegel	University of California, Santa Barbara
T.C. Michael Law	Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Chunhao Lee	General Motors
Steven Little	University of Pittsburgh
Xiang Liu	Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Jason Lyons	Arkema Inc.
Brian MacCleery	National Instruments
Youssef Marzouk	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kristyn Masters	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Meagan Mauter	Carnegie Mellon University
Jason May	HRL Laboratories
Timothy McKnight	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Brett McMickell	Honeywell Aerospace
W. David Merryman	Vanderbilt University
Rahul Mital	General Motors
Mohammad Mofrad	University of California, Berkeley
Nathan Moody	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Elisabeth Nguyen	Aerospace Corp.
Nicholas Peters	Applied Communication Sciences
Desiree Plata	Duke University
Yadunandana Rao	Motorola Solutions
David Reeder	Cargill Inc.
Kate Riggins	Procter & Gamble Co.
Wallace Sawyer	University of Florida
Charles Schroeder	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Severance	Cummins
Behrouz Shafei	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Leena Singh	Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Shukri Souri	Exponent Inc.
Joshuah Stolaroff	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tong Sun	Xerox Webster Research Center
Kevin Turner	University of Pennsylvania
Kimberly Turner	University of California, Santa Barbara
Chris Urmson	Google
Peter van Beek	SHARP Laboratories of America Inc.
Sergei Vassilvitskii	Yahoo!
Kuansan Wang	Microsoft
Kevin Wasson	Corning Inc.
Ulrike Wegst	Dartmouth College
Jianzhong Wu	University of California, Riverside
Miao Yu	University of Maryland

Speakers at this year's event are:

Matthew Gevaert	KIYATEC Inc.
Christopher Jones	Georgia Institute of Technology
Eli Kintisch	Science Insider
Ben Kravitz	Stanford University
Helen Lu	Columbia University
Arindam Maitra	Electric Power Research Institute
Rahul Mangharam	University of Pennsylvania
Richard Marks	Sony
Cory Ondrejka	Facebook
Zoran Popovic	University of Washington
Lynn Russell	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jeff Sakamoto	Michigan State University
David Schaffer	University of California, Berkeley
Constance Steinkuehler	Office of Science and Technology Policy
Matthew Willard	Naval Research Laboratory

The organizers of the 2012 symposium are:

Kristi Anseth (chair)	University of Colorado, Boulder
Karen Burg	Clemson University
Li-Te Cheng	IBM
Michael Degner	Ford Motor Co.
Ali Khademhosseini	Harvard University
Sanjeev Naik	General Motors
Ben Sawyer	Digitalmill
David Sholl	Georgia Institute of Technology
Armin Sorooshian	University of Arizona

Sponsors for the 2012 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are General Motors, the Grainger Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, and Cummins Inc.

Randy Atkins

Senior Media and Public Relations Officer

Phone202.334.1508

atkins@nae.edu

Janet Hunziker

Senior Program Officer

Frontiers of Engineering

Phone202.334.1571

jhunziker@nae.edu

The mission of 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 (along with the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council), an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to provide objective analysis and advice to the nation on matters of science and technology.