Perils of Working from Home Mon, January 25, 2021 Burcin Becerik-Gerber (USFOE 2013) at the University of Southern California discusses how ergonomic engineering can address the toll on mental and physical health caused by working from home. Read More
Hastening Vaccines and Treatments Thu, January 21, 2021 MIT's Ram Sasisekharan (IAFOE 2006) engineers breakthrough biological therapeutics for emerging infectious diseases and drug-resistant infections using a rapid response strategy that dramatically reduces production time from several years to just a few months. Read More
Sex, Race, and Robots Thu, January 14, 2021 FOE alum Ayanna Howard at Georgia Tech has published a thought-provoking audiobook about the risks of AI learning current cultural, racial, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and socioeconomic biases. Read More
Clues to the Gut-Brain Connection Mon, January 11, 2021 FOE alum Reza Ghodssi at the University of Maryland has engineered a platform that could dramatically improve diagnosis and lead to treatments for mood disorders like depression and anxiety and chronic auto-immune diseases like irritable bowel syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis. Read More
Assessing Damage to Brain Cells from Head Trauma Thu, January 07, 2021 Nicole Hashemi (USFOE 2018) at Iowa State University is using her engineering expertise with the manufacture of microstructures to study and describe the damage to brain cells caused by the formation and collapse of microbubbles in the skull, which could lead to development of better helmets. Read More
Treating Tinnitus Through the…Tongue? Mon, January 04, 2021 The University of Minnesota's Hubert Lim (CAFOE 2019) is engineering a device that significantly reduces tinnitus, the sensation of hearing phantom sounds ranging from annoying to debilitating, that affects an estimated 10 to 15 percent of the population. Read More
Upcoming Feb 25 2021 - Feb 26 2021 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium **POSTPONED UNTIL FEBRUARY 2021** The 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering will be held virtually, February 25-26, 2021. 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 for ... Virtual Virtual
Upcoming Mar 18 2021 - Mar 20 2021 2021 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2021 German-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held virtually, March 17-19, 2021. Sixty of the most promising engineers under the age of 45 from Germany and the United States will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering ... Virtual
Upcoming Jun 24 2021 - Jun 26 2021 2021 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2021 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
Register for Jan. 27 Webinar: AI Institute for Next-Generation Food Systems Ilias Tagkopoulos (USFOE 2016) at University of California, Davis will discuss the institute's aim to meet growing demands in the food supply by increasing efficiencies using AI and bioinformatics across food production and distribution systems. Read More
Learning About the Heart Through Music FOE alum Elaine Chew at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique illustrated similarities between music and arrhythmia in a series of short piano pieces based on cardiac electrical anomalies (audio starts about a minute in). Read More
Turning Sound Into Matter Watch FOE alum Markus Buehler at MIT's TEDx talk exploring a new perspective of materials science at the interface of matter and sound using a variety of tools including molecular modeling, AI and machine learning, and experimental synthesis and characterization. Read More
Data Science Seminar Series David Bader (USFOE 2007) founded the NJIT Institute for Data Science, which is hosting a Wednesday virtual seminar series that brings together scientists, engineers, and users to develop data-driven technologies and solve real-world problems. Read More
Recycling Water Bottles Into a Nanomaterial for Energy Storage Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan at the University of California, Riverside (USFOE 2008) are engineering a way to recycle plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage, which could reduce plastic pollution and hasten the transition to 100% clean energy. Read More
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement John L. Anderson, President of the National Academy of Engineering, discusses NAE's response to the recent events surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Read More
COVID-19 Responses As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the nation and the world, the National Academies are rapidly mobilizing critical expertise in science, engineering, and medicine to inform government response and recovery efforts with evidence-based guidance, and are facilitating collaboration across research disciplines and between the public and private sectors. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2019 Symposium This volume includes 12 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium held in September 2019. US FOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding early career engineers to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2019 symposium covered four topic areas: Advanced Manufacturing in the Age of Digital Transformation; Engineering the Genome; Self-Driving Cars: Technology and Ethics; and Blockchain Technology. The papers describe leading-edge research on these topics, among others: next-generation robotic locomotion, using CRISPR to combat human disease vectors, the ethics of autonomous vehicles, and blockchain technology. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and participants. This is the 25th volume in the US Frontiers of Engineering series. 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