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Thu, June 22, 2023
Eighty-one highly accomplished early-career engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2023 Symposium. Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the two-and-a-half day event. The participants — from industry, academia, and government — were nominated by fellow engineers, or organizations.
“The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering symposium helps foster a collaborative spirit in early-career engineers by bringing together a diverse group from different technical areas and work sectors to spark innovation, broaden perspectives on new approaches to engineering problems, and develop long-term relationships that are critical in advancing engineering efforts that are critical to our nation’s future,” said NAE President John L. Anderson.
The symposium will explore four themes:
“The ability to envision what is not yet possible, to create solutions to today’s problems that benefit all of society in the future, and to be open, inclusive, and diverse in our thinking and the abilities of ourselves and others — these are the hallmarks of outstanding engineers,” Anderson said. “The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering symposium opens the door for collaborative efforts across all engineering disciplines and, in doing so, helps build engineer leaders.
Since the program’s inception in 1995, more than 5,000 early-career engineers have participated in previous symposia, many of whom have gone on to become national leaders in the engineering community, Anderson added.
The following engineers were selected as general participants for 2023:
Qadeer Ahmed
Ohio State University
Nikhil Ajotikar
Cummins Inc.
Miltiadis "Miltos" Alamaniotis
University of Texas at San Antonio
Angela Alexander-Bryant
Clemson University
Lauren Alger
STV
Ava Amini
Microsoft Corp.
Rahul Anilkumar
Quanta Technology
Selin Aytar
Bristol Myers Squibb
Bruno Azeredo
Arizona State University
Michael Bartlett
Virginia Tech
Stephanie Bojarski
Intel Corporation
Christopher Brinton
Purdue University
Xu Chen
University of Washington
Jennifer Church
IBM
Kathryn Cifa
Bechtel
Kathleen Coderre
Lockheed Martin
Stacy Copp
University of California, Irvine
Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena
Georgia Institute of Technology
Sybil Derrible
University of Illinois Chicago
Jay Devkota
Procter & Gamble
Christine Duval
Case Western Reserve University
Chuchu Fan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marwa Farag
Ford Motor Company
Caitlin Friedman
Sandia National Laboratories
Yanjie Fu
University of Central Florida
Veda Galigekere
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Maha Haji
Cornell University
Zachary Haralson
Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies Company
Robert Jansen
US Naval Research Laboratory
Jeffrey Katalenich
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Laure Kayser
University of Delaware
Brennan Kelly
Brunswick Corporation
Brent Kenney
L3Harris Technologies
Prashant Khare
University of Cincinnati
Evelyn Kim
HRL Laboratories
Jennifer King
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Eric Konicki
Arkadeep Kumar
Applied Materials Inc.
Jason LeFevre
Xerox Corp
Joseph Lessard
Apple
Lihong Li
Amazon
Jennifer Mahan
Thornton Tomasetti
Sarah Mastroianni
DuPont
Megan McGovern
General Motors Research and Development
Sally Mei
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Eric Meshot
Atomic Machines
Andrew Metcalf
Air Force Research Laboratory
Petro Junior Milan
SambaNova Systems
Emily Mills
Design Interactive, Inc.
Ismaeel Muhamed
Matica Biotechnologies
Saoni Mukherjee
Dell Technologies
Yorie Nakahira
Carnegie Mellon University
Kerri Phillips
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Eric Pierce
Medtronic
Brandon Pitts
Elizabeth Qian
Mu Qiao
IBM Research
Caitlin Race
3M
Marina Radulaski
University of California, Davis
Jeyavijayan Rajendran
Texas A&M University
Jaime Renedo Anglada
GE Vernova Research
Carla Reynolds
Boeing Company
Mark Rodarte
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Farshid Roumi
Parthian Energy (spinoff from Caltech)
Gen Satoh
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Alix Schmidt
Dow
Charles Shields
University of Colorado Boulder
Lauren Smith
Northrop Grumman
Yuan Tian
University of California, Los Angeles
Mathias Unberath
Johns Hopkins University
Phebe Vayanos
University of Southern California
Julea Vlassakis
Rice University
Hua Wang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Julian Wang
Pennsylvania State University
Zhiyi (Kelly) Wang
Nokia Bell Labs
Matthew Webber
University of Notre Dame
Johnny Worthy
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Judy Yang
University of Minnesota
Hua Zhang
BASF
Chumin Zhao
US Food and Drug Administration
Renee Zhao
Stanford University
Speakers:
Nina Astillero
Ioneer, Ltd.
Turgay Ayer
Isabel Barton
University of Arizona
Rodrigo Cristofoletti
University of Florida
Deen Freelon
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Guadalupe Hayes-Mota
Healr Solutions
Alicia Kollar
University of Maryland, College Park
Yoel Roth
University of California, Berkeley
Robert Smith
Kathy-Anne Soderberg
US Air Force Research Laboratory
Kate Starbird
Sze-Chuan Suen
Rebekah Tromble
George Washington University
Joshua Werner
University of Kentucky
Organizing Committee:
Timothy Lieuwen (Chair)
Cody Buntain
University of Maryland
Joshua Combes
Sara Gamble
US Army Research Office
Fiorella Giana
Freeport McMoRan
Mariel Lavieri
University of Michigan
Aaron Noble
Parika Petaipimol
Upstream Bio
Ewa Syta
Trinity College
In addition to The Grainger Foundation, sponsors for the 2023 US-based symposium are the University of Colorado Boulder, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and Cummins.
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