The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials Mon, January 27, 2020 FOE alumni Tomás Palacios at MIT and Jeff Urban at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab are engineering embedded electronics using super-thin materials that will be the linchpin of the internet of everything, from a window that forecasts weather to concrete monitors in tunnels and bridges. Read More
Animal Agriculture Costs More In Health Damage Than It Contributes To The Economy Thu, January 23, 2020 Stanford's Inês M.L. Azevedo (USFOE 2016) reports that the damages from air pollution from farms are larger than the marginal value that the farms provide in economic terms. Across 20 economic sectors, farms performed worst, driven down by animal agriculture. Read More
Water Filtration Inspired by Water Transport in Our Bodies Thu, January 16, 2020 Manish Kumar (USFOE 2016) at the University of Texas at Austin is engineering a new water filtration method with implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants, breathable and protective fabrics, and carbon capture in gas separations. Read More
This Helmet Will Save Football. Actually, Probably Not. Mon, January 13, 2020 Stanford's David Camarillo (USFOE 2018) is engineering football helmet advances to help prevent brain disease from repeated hits to the head. Virginia Tech's Stefan Duma (USFOE 2002) evaluates sports helmets and is skeptical about how much can be achieved. Read More
Hacking Alexa, Google Home, or Siri With a Laser to Open Garage Door Thu, January 09, 2020 FOE alum Kevin Fu at the University of Michigan has discovered a way to easily hack Google Home, Amazon’s Alexa, or Apple’s Siri devices from hundreds of feet away by shining laser pointers or even flashlights at the devices’ microphones. Read More
Digital Production's Next Wave Fri, January 03, 2020 Ohio State University's Glenn Daehn (USFOE 1996) is developing metamorphic manufacturing, also known as robotic blacksmithing, which could take over computer numerical control (CNC) machining and even additive manufacturing, with time-saving and less expensive processes. Read More
Upcoming Jun 22 2020 - Jun 24 2020 2020 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2020 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held in the United States. Sixty of the most promising early career engineers from Japan and the United States will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering ... Irvine, California
Upcoming Sep 14 2020 - Sep 16 2020 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering will be hosted by the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado, September 14-16. About 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Food ... National Renewable Energy Lab Golden, Colorado
Upcoming Oct 19 2020 - Oct 21 2020 2020 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2020 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held October 19-21 at Nokia in Murray Hill, New Jersey. About 60 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: Advances in ... Nokia Murray Hill, New Jersey
Register for Jan. 30 Webinar - DARPA's Oceans of Things The webinar will discuss DARPA's Oceans of Things program, which seeks to enable cost-effective, real-time monitoring of maritime activity by deploying thousands of small, low-cost floats to form a distributed sensor network over large ocean areas. Read More
National Academy of Medicine Seeks Reviewers and Applicants for Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards The Catalyst Awards will give 450 awards of $50k each for bold, innovative ideas that could extend the human health span through disease prevention, mobility, functionality, social connectedness, longevity, and more. Click here for the Call for Reviewers. Read More
Apply for the L'Oreal For Women in Science Fellowship Applications are due January 31, 2020 for the L'Oreal For Women in Science fellowship program, which awards five women postdoctoral scientists annually with grants for their contributions in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields and commitment to serving as role models for younger generations. Read More
Bacteria That Grows Into Bricks Wil Srubar (USFOE 2017) at the University of Colorado Boulder is engineering living hybrid building material that exhibits both structural and biological functions. Read More
Project Confluence Focus on Engineers and Scientists Darshan Karwat (USFOE 2018) at Arizona State University provided a link to a recent webinar (Webinar 2) related to his work with re-Engineered. Read More
Register for Mathematical Frontiers Webinars Mathematical foundations and opportunities in cryptography and cybersecurity will be discussed in this week's webinar, part of a monthly series on exciting and upcoming mathematics research across an array of topics. Read More
Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change This video introduces a new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine asserting that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for--and in many cases is already affecting--a broad range of human and natural systems. Read More
Engineering and Science for Grades 6-12 Centering science instruction around investigation and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the world around them. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2018 Symposium This volume includes 12 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2018 US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium held in September 2018. US FOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2018 symposium covered four topic areas: Quantum Computers: Are We There Yet?, the Role of Engineering in the Face of Conflict and Disaster, Resilient and Reliable Infrastructure, and Theranostics. The papers describe leading-edge research on these topics, among others: quantum computing, combining formal and informal structures in crisis response, infrastructure resilience, and immune theranostics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and participants. This is the 24th volume in the US Frontiers of Engineering series. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2017 Symposium This volume includes 12 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium held in September 2017. US FOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2017 symposium covered four topic areas: Machines That Teach Themselves, Energy Strategies to Power Our Future, Unraveling the Complexity of the Brain, and Megatall Buildings and Other Future Places of Work. The papers describe leading-edge research on such topics as whether machines can spot diseases faster than humans, wireless charging of electric vehicles, brain-machine interfaces, and functional natural materials for high-rise structures, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the twenty-second volume in the US FOE series. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2016 Symposium This volume includes 13 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium held in September 2016. US FOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2016 symposium covered four topic areas: Pixels at Scale, Extreme Engineering, Water Desalination and Purification, and Technologies for Understanding and Treating Cancer. The papers describe leading-edge research on such topics as frontiers in virtual reality headsets, autonomous precision landing of space rockets, new materials for emerging desalination technologies, and engineering immunity against cancer, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the twenty-third volume in the US FOE series. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2015 Symposium This volume includes 14 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2015. USFOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2015 symposium covered four topic areas: Cybersecurity and Privacy, Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets, Optical and Mechanical Metamaterials, and Forecasting Natural Disasters. The papers describe leading-edge research on such topics as designing materials with unprecedented capabilities, building image-relaying mechanisms to better explore exoplanets, and improving medical device cybersecurity, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the twenty-first volume in the USFOE series. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2014 Symposium This volume includes 13 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2014 US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2014. USFOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2014 symposium covered four topic areas:Co-Robotics, Battery Anxiety, Technologies for the Heart, and Shale Gas and Oil. The papers describe leading-edge research on such topics as progress in self-driving vehicles, lithion ion batteries and their manufacturing challenges, biomaterials for treating myocardial infarctions, and microbial ecology of hydraulic fracturing, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the twentieth volume in the USFOE series. Read More