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The 2013 US Frontiers of Engineering was hosted by DuPont on September 19-21, at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware. 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: Designing and Analyzing Social Networks, Cognitive Manufacturing, Energy: Reducing our Dependence on Fossil Fuels, and Flexible Electronics. 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.
Links to presentation slides are in the List of Sessions below, and links to the papers are in the Program.
The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to the meeting sponsors for their support of the 2013 USFOE Symposium.
LIST OF SESSIONS
Chair: Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, Boulder
DESIGNING AND ANALYZING SOCIETAL NETWORKS Session Co-chairs: Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell University, and Scott Klemmer, University of California, San Diego
Introduction Session co-chairs Modeling Large-Scale Networks Based on Mobility Data Tony Jebara, Columbia University
Crowd Computing Rob Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Crowds, Crisis, and Convergence: Crowdsourcing in the Context of Disasters Kate Starbird, University of Washington
Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Grand Challenges Duncan Watts, Microsoft
COGNITIVE MANUFACTURING Session Co-chairs: Elizabeth Hoegeman, Cummins Inc., and Rhett Mayor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Introduction Session co-chairs
Distributed Agents for Artificial Immunity in Modern Manufacturing Dragan Djurdjanovic, University of Texas, Austin
Manufacturing Execution Systems and Computer-Enabled Decisions at the Manufacturing System Level Chris Will, Apriso FlexNet
The Rise of Computer-Enabled Supply Chain Design Steve Ellet, CHAINalytics
Cognitive Agents to Advance Sustainable Manufacturing Steve Skerlos, University of Michigan
ENERGY: REDUCING OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOSSIL FUELS Session Co-chairs: Halil Berberoglu, University of Texas at Austin, and Stuart Thomas, DuPont
Energy from Fossil Fuels: Challenges and Opportunities for Technology Innovation Laura Anadon, Harvard University
Bioenergy Technologies and Strategies--A New Frontier Joyce Yang, US Department of Energy
Drivers for Successful Biofuel Production Scale-up Willem Rensink, Shell USA
Artificial Solar-Fuel Generators Rachel Segalman, University of California, Berkeley
FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS Session Co-chairs: Lynn Loo, Princeton University, and Tina Ng, Palo Alto Research Center
Materials and Process Engineering for Printed and Flexible Opto-electronic Devices Antonio Facchetti, Polyera Inc.
Mechanics and Materials of Bio-Integrated Electronics Nanshu Lu, University of Texas at Austin
Flexible Optoelectronic Devices for Neural Recording and Stimulation Polina Anikeeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology