AI Can Now Read Emotions - Should It? Thu, March 26, 2020 Christoffer Heckman (USFOE 2019) at the University of Colorado Boulder warns of the fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethical (“FATE”) flaws inherent in artificial intelligence that reads emotions. Read More
Using Electrical Field to Gauge Ocean Cell Health Mon, March 23, 2020 FOE alum Mehdi Javanmard at Rutgers University has engineered a miniature device that can analyze the health of marine microbes by changes in an electrical field. Read More
Biotech Funding Bias Blocks Women-Led Companies Tue, March 17, 2020 To counter the bias, FOE alum and NAE member Sangeeta Bhatia at MIT will teach an accelerator class for female faculty about increasing networking opportunities and exposure to biotech. Read More
NAE Awards the 2020 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research Mon, March 16, 2020 Two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants of $30,000 each have been awarded to attendees of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Read More
Flexible Wearables Thu, March 12, 2020 Mehmet Ozturk (USFOE 1996) at North Carolina State University is engineering a device to convert body heat into power for wearables that approach the efficiency of rigid devices, which have traditionally outperformed flexible counterparts in harvesting body heat. Read More
Collecting Solar Energy During the Night Mon, March 09, 2020 FOE alum Jeremy Munday at the University of California, Davis is engineering prototypes of nighttime solar cells that can generate small amounts of power and hopes to improve their power output and efficiency. 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 Laboratory 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 ... 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
NSF Seeks Proposals for Research on COVID-19 The National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention, and to encourage the development of processes and actions to address this global challenge. Read More
Register for March 18 Webinar: Effective Mentorship in STEMM Join GUIRR's discussion on ways institutions can strategically enhance the effectiveness of mentorship practices in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM). Read More
Webinar Series: Working Ethics Into the Conversation Register for the March 26 webinar featuring Rebecca Bates at Minnesota State University, Mankato and Steven Starrett at LeTourneau University discussing “Teaching Engineering Ethics in the Context of ABET Requirements.” Read More
Webinar Series: Illustrating the Impact of Mathematical Sciences Register for the March 3 webinar and others in the series organized by the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics featuring mathematicians telling the most important stories of how math has made an impact, from traffic simulations to personalized medicine. This webinar series is part of a larger National Academies’ study that will identify and illustrate the broad impact of the mathematical sciences. 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
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
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
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