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The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 Symposium was hosted by Amazon September 21-23 at the Grand Hyatt Seattle. About 100 outstanding early career engineers met for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Microbes - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Technology and Racial Justice and Equity; and Hydrogen: a New 'Universal' Energy Carrier for the Carbon-free Future; and Conversational AI. 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.
LIST OF SESSIONS
Chair: Timothy Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology
MICROBES: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY Session Co-chairs: Gabriel Kwong, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Anita Shukla, Brown University
Introduction
Emergent Metabolic Dynamics in Microbial Communities Arthur Prindle, Northwestern University
Materials-based Approaches to Prevent Biofilm-associated Infections Caitlin Howell, University of Maine
Precision Delivery of Probiotics to Enhance Nutrition Aaron Anselmo, VitaKey
“Life . . .Finds a Way”: Discovering and Deploying Microbial Solutions to Emerging Global Challenges Kevin Solomon, University of Delaware
TECHNOLOGY AND RACIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY Session Co-chairs: Brooke Coley, Arizona State University, and Khalid Kadir, University of California, Berkeley
Engineering Solutions for Justice: A Case Study of Electric Vehicles Regan Patterson, University of California, Los Angeles
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Engineering and Making Whiteness Visible James Holly, Jr., University of Michigan
Unpacking the Hidden Curriculum in Engineering Idalis Villanueva Alarcon, University of Florida
Resilient Engineering Identity Monique Ross, Ohio State University
HYDROGEN: A NEW ‘UNIVERSAL’ ENERGY CARRIER FOR THE CARBON-FREE FUTURE? Session Co-chairs: Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University, and Iryna Zenyuk, University of California, Irvine
The Critical Role of Hydrogen in a Net-zero Emissions Energy System Ryan Jones, Evolved Energy Research
Hydrogen Earthshot: DOE’s Efforts to Catalyze a Clean Hydrogen Industry Neha Rustagi, US Department of Energy
The Cutting-edge in Clean Electrolysis Xiong Peng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Power of Being Negative: Producing H2 and Sequestered Carbon from Biomass and Waste Resources Josh Schaidle, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
CONVERSATIONAL AI Session Co-chairs: Suma Bhat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Jing Huang, Amazon Alexa AI
Conversational AI Systems: Current Progress and Future Directions Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Meta
Seamless Natural Communication between Humans and Machines Zhou Yu, Columbia University
Augmenting Conversational Data with Generative Conversational Networks Alexandros Papangelis, Amazon Alexa AI
Interaction and Language Grounding Karthik Narasimhan, Princeton University