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The 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering was held September 22-24 at the National Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, California. About 100 outstanding early career engineers met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Investigating the Final Frontier: Engineering the Future of Space Exploration; Resilience in Pandemics: Data and Digital Infrastructure for Informed Decision-Making; Transforming the Climate Change Discussion: the Role of Direct Air Capture; and Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure. The goal of the Frontiers of Engineering program is to bring together engineers from all engineering disciplines and from industry, universities, and federal labs to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange and promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields in order to sustain and build US innovative capacity.
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LIST OF SESSIONS
Chair: Timothy Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology
INVESTIGATING THE FINAL FRONTIER: ENGINEERING THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION Session Co-chairs: Allison Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder, Jessica Samuels, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Introduction Presentation Introduction Slides
Exploring Time and Space: The Future of Space-based Astronomical Observatories Allison Barto, Ball Aerospace Slides
Design of Space Systems to Enable In-space Assembly and Servicing Bo Naasz, NASA
Gathering Asteroid Dust, Guided by OSIRIS-REx Images Daniella DellaGiustina, University of Arizona Slides
Mars-Walking: Enabling Capabilities for Crew Health and Performance during Exploration Extravehicular Activity Andrew Abercromby, NASA Johnson Space Center Slides
RESILIENCE IN PANDEMICS: DATA AND DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INFORMED DECISION- MAKING Session Co-chairs: Jessilyn Dunn, Duke University, and Jennifer Pazour, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fighting the Pandemic with Data: A Case Study at Cornell University Peter Frazier, Cornell University Slides
The Impact of COVID-19 on Frontline Educational Workers Samantha Keppler, University of Michigan Slides
Digitalization of Biomedical Manufacturing Sarah Nielsen, Janssen Supply Chain
Improved Healthcare Decision-making through Data and Advanced Mathematical Modeling Karen Hicklin, University of Florida Slides
TRANSFORMING THE CLIMATE CHANGE DISCUSSION: THE ROLE OF DIRECT AIR CAPTURE Session Co-chairs: Ryan Lively, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Mica Taborga Claure, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Introduction Slides
The Unique Challenges Posed by Direct Air Capture for Chemistry and Engineering Simon Pang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Slides
A Fundamentals-based Approach for Scale-up of DAC Technology Rodrigo Blanco Gutierrez, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
The Rules are Easy, The Game is Hard: The Development of Successful DAC Technologies Maxime Tornier, Climeworks
Who Pays for DAC? The Policy and Market Landscape for Advancing Direct Air Capture Colin McCormick, Carbon Direct and Georgetown University Slides
CYBERSECURITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE Session Co-chairs: Katherine Davis, Texas A&M University, and Roman Danyliw, Carnegie Mellon University
Introduction Presention Introduction Slides
State of Infrastructure Security Jason Hill, Department of Homeland Security Slides
Threat-informed Defenses for Industrial Control Systems Adam Hahn, MITRE Corporation Slides
Cybersecurity and Wind Farms Peter MacKay, General Electric Slides