The 2011 US Frontiers of Engineering was held September 19-21, 2011, at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.. 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: Additive Manufacturing, Engineering Sustainable Buildings, Semantic Processing, and Neuroprosthetics. 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 2011 USFOE Symposium.
Photo album from 2011 USFOE
Click on the links below to view the presentations:
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Session co-chairs: Carolyn Seepersad, University of Texas at Austin, and Michael Siemer, Mydea Technologies Corporation
Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Technology Introduction and Business Implications
Brent Stucker, University of Louisville
Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace: Examples and Research Outlook
Brett Lyons, The Boeing Company
Additive Manufacturing is Changing Surgery
Andrew Christensen, Medical Modeling, Inc.
The Shape of Things to Come: Frontiers in Additive Manufacturing
Hod Lipson, Cornell University
SEMANTIC PROCESSING
Session co-chairs: Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, and Amarnag Subramanya, Google
Automatic Text Understanding of Content and Text Quality
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Advancing Natural Language Understanding with Collaboratively Generated Content
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research
Large Scale Visual Semantic Extraction
Samy Bengio, Google Research
Searching for Statistical Diagrams
Michael Cafarella, University of Michigan
ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
Session co-chairs: Annie Pearce, Virginia Tech, and John Zhai, University of Colorado
Challenges and Opportunities for Low-Carbon Buildings
John Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expanding Design Spaces
John Haymaker, Design Process Innovation
Opportunities and Challenges for Multi-Scale Modeling of Sustainable Buildings
Jelena Srebric, Pennsylvania State University
Accelerating Green Building Market Transformation with Information Technology
Christopher Pyke, U.S. Building Council
NEUROPROSTHETICS
Session co-chairs: Timothy Denison, Medtronic, and Justin Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Retinal Prosthetic Systems for Treatment of Blindness
James Weiland, University of Southern California
The Evolution of Neuroprosthetics
Eric Leuthardt, Washington University
Ultra Low Power Biomedical and Bio-inspired Systems
Rahul Sarpeshkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology