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The 2014 US Frontiers of Engineering was held on September 11-13, at the National Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, California. 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: Co-Robotics, Battery Anxiety, Technologies for the Heart, Impacts of Shale Gas and Oil. 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 2014 USFOE Symposium.
LIST OF SESSIONS
Chair: Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, Boulder
CO-ROBOTICS Session co-chairs: Brian Gerkey, Open Source Robotics Foundation, and Carmel Majidi, Carnegie Mellon University
Introduction Session co-chairs Progress in Self-Driving Vehicles Chris Urmson, Google Safe, Cheap, and Smart: Collaborative Robots in Manufacturing Matthew Williamson, Rethink Robotics Personalized Medical Robots Allison Okamura, Stanford University Biologically Inspired Mobile Robots Dennis Hong, University of California, Los Angeles BATTERY ANXIETY Session co-chairs: Jeff Sakamoto, University of Michigan, and Daniel Steingart, Princeton University
Introduction Session co-chairs Electrochemical Prozac: Relieving Battery Anxiety through Life and Safety Research Alvaro Masias, Ford Motor Company Challenges in Batteries for Electric Vehicles Sarah Stewart, Robert Bosch LLC Lithium Ion Batteries and Their Manufacturing Challenges Claus Daniel, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Materials Design and Diagnosis for Rechargeable Battery Energy Storage Shirley Meng, University of California, San Diego TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE HEART Session co-chairs: Karen Christman, University of California, San Diego, and Ashley Peterson, Medtronic
Introduction Session co-chairs The History of Heart Valves--An Industry Perspective: From Initial Designs to Today Erin Spinner, Edwards Lifesciences Engineering Heart Valve Treatment Strategies for Tomorrow David Merryman, Vanderbilt University Biomaterials for Treating Myocardial Infarctions Jason Burdick, University of Pennsylvania Regulatory Perspectives on Technologies for the Heart Sonna Patel-Raman, Halloran Consulting Group, Inc. SHALE GAS AND OIL Session co-chairs: Billy Bardin, Dow Chemical Company, and Christopher Jones, Georgia Tech
Introduction Session co-chairs Shale Natural Resources Stephen Ingram, Halliburton Microbial Ecology of Hydraulic Fracturing: Implications for Sustainable Resource Development Kelvin Gregory, Carnegie Mellon University The Shale Gas Revolution: A Methane to Organic Chemicals Renaissance? Eric Stangland, The Dow Chemical Company
DINNER SPEECH
What is Impact? Arunava Majumdar, Stanford University