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The 2014 Japan-American Frontiers of Engineering was held June 9-11, 2014, in Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan. Sixty of the most promising engineers under the age of 45 from Japan and the United States met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering technology in four areas: Field Robotics for Disaster Response, Power Unplugged: Energy Harvesting and Power Transmission, Noise Control Engineering in Healthcare Environments, and Bioimaging. The event is intended to facilitate international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourage the creation of a transpacific network of world-class engineers.
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 following sponsors for their support of the 2014 JAFOE Symposium: The Grainger Foundation, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Lawrence S. Finegold and the Michiko So Finegold Memorial Trust, and the National Science Foundation.
List of Sessions Symposium co-chairs: Yoshikazu Nakajima, University of Tokyo, and Steven DenBaars, University of California, Santa Barbara
BIOIMAGING Session co-chairs: Elisa Konofagou, Columbia University, and Kazuo Kurokawa, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics Introduction Session co-chairs Imaging and Mathematical Modeling of Molecular Activities in Living Cells Kazuhiro Aoki, Kyoto University New Technologies for Molecular Imaging of Brain Function Alan Jasanoff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advanced Endoscopic Imaging Technologies Makoto Igarashi Olympus Medical Systems Corp. Photonics Meets Biology: From Nanoscale Imaging to Winning the War on Cancer Vadim Backman, Northwestern University POWER UNPLUGGED: ENERGY HARVESTING AND POWER TRANSMISSION Session co-chairs: Yukihiro Tahara, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., and Jeffrey Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Introduction Session co-chairs I. Energy Harvesting Energy in Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials Eric Pop, Stanford University Low-Cost and Perpetual Sensing Systems Enabled by Ambient RF Energy Harvesting Yoshihiro Kawahara, University of Tokyo II. Wireless/Remote Power Transmission Wireless Power Transfer Technologies Via Radio Waves Naoki Shinohara, Kyoto University Electromagnetic Structures and Exploitation of the Dark Universe for Cooling on Earth Shanhui Fan, Stanford University NOISE CONTROL ENGINEERING IN HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS Session co-chairs: Jeff Fullerton, Acentech, and Hiroshi Sato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Introduction Session co-chairs Prediction, Control, and Assessment of Environmental Noise Shinichi Sakamoto, University of Tokyo Acoustics and the Patient Experience Erik Miller-Klein, SSA Acoustics Managing Noise in Healthcare Environments to Benefit Patient Outcomes Mandy Kachur, Soundscape Engineering Augmenting Signals against Noises: Understanding Human Body with Data Sonification Hiroko Terasawa, Tsukuba University FIELD ROBOTICS FOR DISASTER RESPONSE Session co-chairs: Todd Danko, Lockheed Martin, and Keiji Nagatani, Tohoku University
Introduction Session co-chairs Quince: Monitoring Robot for Disaster Response in the Fukushima-Daiichi Power Facility Tomoaki Yoshida, Chiba Institute of Technology Robust Aerial Robot Autonomy and Cooperative Heterogeneous Vehicle Deployments Nathan Michael, Carnegie Mellon University Unmanned Construction System for Disaster Response Takeshi Hashimoto, Public Works Research Institute DARPA Robotics Challenge: Robotic Technology for Disaster Response Jim Pippine, Golden Knight Technologies