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The 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering was held on September 19-21 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: Pixels at Scale, Extreme Engineering, Water Desalination and Purification, and Technologies for Understanding and Treating Cancer. 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.
The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to our sponsors for their support of the 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
LIST OF SESSIONS
Chair: Robert Braun, Georgia Institute of Technology
PIXELS AT SCALE: HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND VISION Session co-chairs: David Luebke, NVIDIA Research, and John Owens, University of California, Davis
Introduction
Computational Near-Eye Displays: Engineering the Interface Between our Visual System and the Digital World Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University
Graphics and Virtual Reality Warren Hunt, Oculus Research A First Person Perspective on Computational Vision Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin
A Quintillion Live Pixels: The Challenge of Continuously Interpreting and Organizing the World's Visual Information Kayvon Fatahalian, Carnegie Mellon University EXTREME ENGINEERING: EXTREME AUTONOMY IN SPACE, AIR, LAND, AND UNDER WATER Session co-chairs: DeShawn Jackson, Halliburton, and Marco Pavone, Stanford University
Introduction Autonomous Precision Landing of Space Rockets Lars Blackmore, SpaceX Robots of a Feather David Lentink, Stanford University MIT Cheetah: New Design Paradigm for Mobile Robots Sangbae Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Autonomy Underwater: Ocean Sampling by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Derek Paley, University of Maryland WATER DESALINATION AND PURIFICATION Session co-chairs: Amy Childress, University of Southern California, and Abhishek Roy, The Dow Chemical Company
Sustainability in Desalination Manish Kumar, Pennsylvania State University Scalable Manufacturing of Layer-by-Layer Membranes for Water Purification Chris Stafford, National Institute of Standards and Technology
New Materials for Emerging Desalination Technologies Baoxia Mi, University of California, Berkeley
High-Recovery Desalination and Water Treatment Kevin Alexander, Hazen and Sawyer
TECHNOLOGIES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND TREATING CANCER Session co-chairs: Julie Champion, Georgia Tech, and Peter Tessier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
How Cancer Cells Go Awry: The Role of Mechanobiology in Cancer Research Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornell University
Advances in Detecting Rare Cancer Cells Brian Kirby, Cornell University
Engineered Proteins for Visualizing and Treating Disease Jennifer Cochran, Stanford University
Engineering Immunity Against Cancer Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology