Keeping Plastics Out of Landfills and the Environment Mon, June 13, 2022 Alan Jacobsen (USFOE 2011) at Amazon and Gregg Beckham (USFOE 2017) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are engineering technologies and materials that will lead to less material in landfills and more back into the circular economy. Read More
Using Ultrasound to Command Bacteria to Nuke Tumors Thu, June 09, 2022 Caltech's Mikhail Shapiro (USFOE 2017) is engineering bacteria to attack cancer after being activated by ultrasound-induced heat without harming surrounding healthy cells. Read More
Decoding a Material’s ‘Memory’ Mon, June 06, 2022 Mechanical engineer Celia Reina (EU-US FOE 2017) at the University of Pennsylvania is studying the relationship between particle structure and flow in disordered materials, yielding insights that can be used to understand systems ranging from mudslides to biofilms. Read More
Fighting Climate Change with Carbon Capture and Utilization Technologies Thu, June 02, 2022 At the University of California Riverside, Mihri Ozkan is engineering clean energy technologies, and Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz is converting waste products, including recovered carbon, into fuels and valuable industrial chemicals. Read More
Simulated Human Eye Movement Thu, May 26, 2022 Duke University's Maria Gorlatova (USFOE 2020) is engineering virtual eyes that simulate how humans look at the world accurately enough for companies to train virtual reality and augmented reality programs and will help protect user data in the rapidly expanding metaverse. Read More
Upcycling Human Waste to Fertilize Plants Mon, May 23, 2022 Krista Wigginton (JAFOE 2018) at the University of Michigan is engineering plant fertilizer from urine, a less intensive process that produces the same nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium nutrients as synthetic fertilizer. Read More
Upcoming Jul 18 2022 - Jul 20 2022 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held July 18-20 as a meeting-within-a-meeting event. Sixty highly accomplished early-career engineers from China and the United States will meet for an intensive 3 day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of ... Irvine, California and Chengdu, China
Upcoming Sep 21 2022 - Sep 23 2022 2022 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 Symposium will be held September 21-23 at Amazon in Seattle, Washington. About 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Microbes - the Good, ... Seattle, Washington
Upcoming Oct 20 2022 - Oct 22 2022 2022 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2022 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held October 20-22 in Bled, Slovenia. Sixty of the most promising early career engineers from the US and EU will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four topic areas: ... Bled, Slovenia
How Realistic Are Those Robots in Movies? FOE alum and dean of engineering at Ohio State University Ayanna Howard discusses 11 robots from Iron Man, Spider-Man 2, Big Hero 6, Terminator, and other movies and television. Read More
Apply by June 20 for US-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium The inaugural US-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine will be held on October 12-14, 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together early-career scientists, engineers, and medical professionals from the United States and African Union member countries to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in their fields. For more information and to apply to attend, visit the program website. Read More
The New Future of Work Following a rapid global shift to remote work, work is changing faster than it has in a generation. Microsoft's Jaime Teevan (USFOE 2014) writes about evolving hybrid work practices and developing technologies that will address the biggest new challenges while taking advantage of the biggest new opportunities. Read More
A Student of Engineering...and Whisky Paul Drumheller (USFOE 1997) at WL Gore and Associates was recently featured in NAE's The Bridge for his passion and study of whisky. Read More
Podcast Episode on Sustainability and Space: Lessons from Lower Orbit Lockheed Martin's Christopher Geiger (USFOE 2015) discusses the challenges facing space-based technologies, the role of resilient engineering design in environmental sustainability, and the importance of effective governance structures for sustainable business strategies. Read More
Tech for Good - Lives Not Grades Civil and environmental engineer Burcin Becerik-Gerber at the University of Southern California co-produced this film about students traveling to the Moria Camp in Greece, known as "the worst refugee camp on earth," to design and build innovations that can improve the lives of refugees fleeing wars and natural disasters. 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