The 2012 US Frontiers of Engineering will be held September 13-15, 2012, at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, MI. About 100 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Vehicle Electrification, Serious Games, Climate Engineering, and Engineering Materials for the Biological Interface. 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.
The National Academy of Engineering would like to express its gratitude to a number of meeting sponsors for their support of the 2012 USFOE Symposium.
LIST OF SESSIONS
(Working titles listed. Order of sessions and speakers TBD.)
Chair: Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, Boulder
VEHICLE ELECTRIFICATION
Session Co-chairs: Michael Degner, Ford Motor Company, and Sanjeev Naik, General Motors
Keeping up with the Increasing Demands for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Jeff Sakamoto, Michigan State University
Stronger, Lighter, and More Energy Efficient: Challenges of Magnetic Material Development for Vehicle Electrification
Matthew A. Willard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory,
Preparing the Distribution Grid to Embrace PEVs
Arindam Maitra, Electric Power Research Institute
Automotive Architectures 20/20: From Electric Vehicles to Networked Vehicles
Rahul Mangharam, AutoPlug and University of Pennsylvania
SERIOUS GAMES
Session co-chairs: Li-Te Cheng, IBM, and Ben Sawyer, DigitalMill
Overview of Serious Games Space
Constance Steinkuehler, Office of Science and Technology Policy/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moving Innovative Game Technology from the Lab to the Living Room
Richard Marks, Sony
How Serious Science is being Achieved with Serious Games
Zoran Popovic. University of Washington
The Intersection of Serious Games, Social Networking, Mobile, and Metrics
Cory Ondrejka, Facebook
CLIMATE ENGINEERING
Session co-chairs: David Sholl, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona
Overview of Climate Engineering
Eli Kintisch, Science Magazine
Removing Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere through Mechanical or Natural Means
Christopher Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology
Role that Atmospheric Aerosols play in Climate Engineering and Field Projects to Understand Cloud Brightening
Lynn Russell, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Methods of Climate Engineering with an Emphasis on the Potential Effects of Simulated Volcanic Eruptions
Ben Kravitz, Carnegie Institution for Science
ENGINEERING MATERIALS FOR THE BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE
Session co-chairs: Karen Burg, Clemson University, and Ali Khademhosseini, Harvard Medical School
Science Overview of Interfacial Tissue Engineering
Helen Lu, Columbia University
Identification and Modulation of Signals that Control Stem Cell Function and Fate
David Schaffer, University of California-Berkeley
Cultivating 3D Tissue Systems to Better Mimic Relevant Events
Matthew Gevaert, Kiyatec