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The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 Symposium will be held September 21-23 at Amazon in Seattle, Washington. About 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Microbes - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Conversational AI; Technology and Racial Justice and Equity; and Hydrogen: a New 'Universal' Energy Carrier for the Carbon-free Future. 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 preliminary program is available here. More information will be posted at a later date.
LIST OF SESSIONS (Working titles/topics only. Order of sessions TBD.)
Chair: Timothy Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology
MICROBES: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY Session Co-chairs: Gabriel Kwong, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Anita Shukla, Brown University
Understanding and Engineering Collective Behaviors that Arise from Microbial Communities Arthur Prindle, Northwestern University
Materials-based Approaches to Prevent Biofilm-associated Infections Caitlin Howell, University of Maine
Advanced Probiotic Delivery Systems to Enhance Nutrition Aaron Anselmo, VitaKey
Using Microbes for Materials Degradation, Plastic Upcycling, Vaccine Production, and Biohybrid Materials Kevin Solomon, University of Delaware
CONVERSATIONAL AI Session Co-chairs: Suma Bhat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Jing Huang, Amazon Alexa AI
Conversational Dialog Systems Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Facebook AI Research
Interaction and Language Grounding Karthik Narasimhan, Princeton University
Multimodal Interaction Zhou Yu, Columbia University
Data Generation for Conversational AI Systems Alexandros Papangelis, Amazon Alexa AI
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND RACIAL EQUITY Session Co-chairs: Brooke Coley, Arizona State University, and Khalid Khadir, University of California, Berkeley
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Engineering and Making Whiteness Visible James Holly, Jr., University of Michigan
Resilient Engineering Identity Monique Ross, Florida International University
Environmental Justice Regan Patterson, University of California, Los Angeles
Unpacking the Hidden Curriculum in Engineering Idalis Villanueva Alarcon, University of Florida
HYDROGEN: A NEW ‘UNIVERSAL’ ENERGY CARRIER FOR THE CARBON-FREE FUTURE? Session Co-chairs: Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University, and Iryna Zenyuk, University of California, Irvine
The Critical Role of Hydrogen in a Net-zero Emissions Energy System Ryan Jones, Evolved Energy Research
Hydrogen Earthshot: DOE’s Efforts to Catalyze a Clean Hydrogen Industry Neha Rustagi, US Department of Energy
The Cutting-edge in Clean Electrolysis Nemanja Danilovic, Electric Hydrogen Co.
Various Routes of Biomass-to-H2 Conversion Josh Schaidle, National Renewable Energy Laboratory