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The 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering was held on September 9-11, at the Arnold and Mabel 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: Cybersecurity and Privacy, Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets, Optical and Mechanical Metamaterials, and Forecasting Natural Disasters. 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 US innovative capacity.
Links to presentation slides are in the List of Sessions below, and links to the papers are in the Program.
LIST OF SESSIONS
Chair: Robert Braun, Georgia Institute of Technology
CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY Session co-chairs: David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Daniela Oliveira, University of Florida
Introduction
Security at Different Layers of Abstractions: Application, Operating Systems, and Hardware Bryan Payne, Netflix
Computer Security and Privacy Where Human Factors Meet Engineering Franziska Roesner, University of Washington Interdisciplinary Security: Medical Devices Kevin Fu, University of Michigan
Challenges of Engineering Cybersecurity: A Government Perspective Tomas Vagoun, National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology R&D ENGINEERING THE SEARCH FOR EARTH-LIKE EXOPLANETS Session co-chairs: Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mitchell Walker, Georgia Institute of Technology The James Webb Space Telescope Amy Lo, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Starlight Suppression:Technologies for Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Dmitry Savransky, Cornell University Realizing Large Structures in Space Jeremy Banik, Air Force Research Laboratory Sensing Controls for Space-Based Planet Finding Jonathan Black, Virginia Tech OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL METAMATERIALS Session co-chairs: Jennifer Dionne, Stanford University, and Luke Sweatlock Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Introduction Materials by Design: 3-Dimensional Architected Nanostructured Meta-Materials Julia Greer, California Institute of Technology Mechanical Metamaterials: Design, Fabrication, and Performance Christopher Spadaccini, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Metamaterial-Based Device Engineering Andrea Alu, University of Texas at Austin Catching Light Rays: Refractory Plasmonic Materials for Energy Conversion, Data Storage, and Medical Applications Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University
FORECASTING NATURAL DISASTERS Session co-chairs: Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine, and James Done, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Assessing and Managing Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate Ning Lin, Princeton University
The Economics of Natural Disasters: Moving from Risk Assessment to Risk Reduction Jeffrey Czajkowski, University of Pennsylvania
Google Earth Engine: A New Platform for Global-Scale Disaster Risk Resilience Rebecca Moore, Google