New Technique Shows How Decisions Light Up the Brain Mon, July 13, 2020 At Stanford, NAE member Karl Deisseroth (JAFOE 2009) and Gordon Wetzstein (USFOE 2016) are engineering a new optical technique that enables the study of sensory perception in animals and screening to develop better psychiatric drugs. Read More
Lower Cost and Durable Smart Windows Thu, July 09, 2020 Michael McGehee (USFOE 2005) at the University of Colorado Boulder is engineering smart window technology that enables users to adjust the amount of sunlight and heat entering through windows without blocking views. Read More
Gel Smooths Cells’ Ride Through Syringes in Regenerative Therapy Mon, July 06, 2020 Stanford University's Sarah Heilshorn (CAFOE 2011) is engineering an innovative delivery technology that vastly improves the viability of tissue regenerating cells and enhances strength and coordination in animals with spinal-cord injury. Read More
Think It's Hot? Dams Feel It Too Thu, July 02, 2020 FOE alum Amir AghaKouchak at the University of California, Irvine says to expect more dam failures like that in Central Michigan, as decades-old dams were not designed to withstand rapidly-rising temperatures. Read More
3D Printing Safer Padding for Helmets Mon, June 29, 2020 Thomas Plaisted (IAFOE 2010) at the Army Research Lab has engineered new materials and manufacturing methods to create helmet padding that reduces the likelihood of head injury in combat and recreation. Read More
Innovative Early-Career Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Tue, June 23, 2020 85 of the nation’s brightest early-career engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 26th annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Read More
Upcoming Feb 25 2021 - Feb 27 2021 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium **POSTPONED UNTIL FEBRUARY 2021** The 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering will be held at the National Academies Beckman Center in Irvine, California, February 25-27, 2021. About 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to ... Beckman Center Irvine, California
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 March 18-20 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . 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 ... Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Upcoming Jun 24 2021 - Jun 26 2021 2021 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium **POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE 2021** 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 ... Irvine, California
Register for July 22 Webinar: NSF's Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier This GUIRR webinar will discuss advances in engineering, computer science, or other relevant fields, with the potential to create new human-technology work partnerships and the critical role that lifelong learning, education, and training will play in the future of jobs and work. Read More
NAE COVID-19 Call to Action: Virtual Pitches Join us live online, Friday, June 26 from 1:30-3:00 EDT, as the first set of teams from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Call to Action against COVID-19 pitch their concepts to an Expert Review Committee of NAE members. The NAE’s virtual incubator is facilitating development of hundreds of ideas for ways engineering can help address various aspects of the current pandemic, catalyzing collaboration amongst a multi-generational range of engineers – from students in the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program to cutting edge researchers in the Frontiers of Engineering program to eminent members of the NAE itself – as well as other disciplines. 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 News and Resources Check out statements from the National Acacemies, upcoming events, and other resources. Read More
COVID-19 Conversations This webinar series from the American Public Health Association and the National Academy of Medicine explore the science of the current outbreak of COVID-19 in the US and globally, with a focus on how to best mitigate its impact. Hear from trusted experts in such fields as public health, infectious disease, risk communication, and crisis standards of care. 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