Batteries To Power Long-Range Freight Trucks Mon, April 12, 2021 Anthony Eggert (JAFOE 2004) of the ClimateWorks Foundation writes that both battery-electric and fuel-cell long-range trucks can soon be engineered to out-compete diesel on cost while providing massive benefits for public health and the climate. Read More
New Worm-Like Robots ‘Swim’ in Soil to Collect Crop Data Thu, April 08, 2021 FOE alum Robert Shepherd at Cornell University is engineering worm-like robots to gather data on soil properties, water, soil microbiome, and how roots grow to directly improve food productivity and security. Read More
Food and Climate Change Mon, April 05, 2021 Biosystems engineering professor Jason Hill (GAFOE 2013) at the University of Minnesota co-authored a recent study showing that we don't all have to go vegan to impact improvements to the big climate change problem caused by how we grow, eat, and waste food. Read More
Strong as a BioPolymer Mon, March 22, 2021 At the University of California, Heather Maynard (JAFOE 2005) and Megan Valentine (USFOE 2014) are engineering new high-performance alternatives to petroleum-based polymers for strength, flexibility, and durability that can be produced sustainably from biological sources. Read More
All-terrain Microrobot Flips Over Rough Muscle Mon, March 22, 2021 Purdue mechanical engineer David Cappelleri (GAFOE 2015) is engineering a robot as tiny as a few human hairs that can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips directly to its target site, which could reduce side effects that the drug may cause by interacting with other organs along the way. Read More
Organ-on-a-Chip Monitoring System for Chemotherapy Thu, March 18, 2021 FOE alum Ali Khademhosseini of the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation has engineered an organ-on-a-chip to monitor how breast cancer chemotherapy can affect tissue damage to the heart, the heart's pumping ability, or clinical heart failure. Read More
Upcoming Jun 23 2021 - Jun 25 2021 2021 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2021 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held virtually June 23-25. 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 ... Virtual
Upcoming Sep 22 2021 - Sep 24 2021 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering is tentatively scheduled to be held September 22-24 at the University of Colorado Boulder, contingent on the ability to hold an in-person meeting. About 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to ... Boulder, Colorado
Upcoming Nov 15 2021 - Nov 17 2021 2021 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2020 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium has been RESCHEDULED to November 15-17, 2021 and will be held 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 ... Nokia Murray Hill, New Jersey
Register for April 19 Webinar: Engineering Innovations in Response to the Challenges of the Pandemic Organized by the US National Academy of Engineering, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and UK Royal Academy of Engineering, this webinar will focus on the initial phase of the pandemic, when, amid crippling widespread shortages, engineers availed themselves of whatever resources were on-hand to quickly and effectively apply them to the problems created by the pandemic. Read More
Register for April 22 Webinar: Partnerships for Sustainable Development Goals This GUIRR webinar will provide a broad overview of UN SDG-related trends in scientific research, accounting for volume of publications, international co-publications (with an emphasis on North–South and South–South), public–private co-publications and multi-/inter-disciplinarity. These indicators will also be cross-linked with variables such as the career stage and gender of scientists reporting SDG research. Read More
Humans Cause Traffic Jams, AI Can Fix Them Traffic causes a litany of problems for society, from increased emissions to accidents. FOE alum Alexandre Bayen thinks automated vehicles will help us finally solve it. Read More
The Future is Out There In this interview of Martin Cooper, who conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973, NAE illustrates the importance of encouraging current and future generations of engineers and entrepreneurs to think big and bold. 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
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
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