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Mon, June 24, 2013
Washington, DC, June 24, 2013 – Eighty-one of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 19th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the 2-1/2 day event. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from 310applicants.
The symposium will be hosted by DuPont on September 19-21, at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: Designing and Analyzing Social Networks, Cognitive Manufacturing, Energy: Reducing our Dependence on Fossil Fuels, and Flexible Electronics.
“The well-being of society will rely on engineering ideas developed by our nation’s leading technological thinkers,” said NAE President Charles M. Vest. “The Frontiers of Engineering programs gives some of our most talented early career innovators the opportunity to create interdisciplinary relationships that are critical to shaping and advancing the future.”
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Hal Alper
University of Texas at Austin
Burcin Becerik-Gerber
University of Southern California
Irene Beyerlein
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Macie Black
Bandgap Engineering
Mark Borden
University of Colorado Boulder
Bryan Boudouris
Purdue University
Danijela Cabric
University of California, Los Angeles
John Carpenter
RTI International
Luis Cascao-Pereira
DuPont
Julie Champion
Georgia Institute of Technology
Yiran Chen
University of Pittsburgh
Karen Christman
University of California, San Diego
Jason Clevenger
Exponent, Inc.
Baratunde Cola
Douglas Densmore
Boston University
Andreas Dreher
Procter & Gamble Company
Jennifer Dy
Northeastern University
Carolyn Ellinger
Eastman Kodak Company
Laura Espinal
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Philip Feng
Case Western Reserve University
Matthew Gaston
Carnegie Mellon University
Dennice Gayme
Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth Gerber
Northwestern University
Ramon Gonzalez
Rice University
Angela Harris
Ford Motor Company
Davion Hill
DNV
Prashant Jain
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sham Kakade
Microsoft
Mandakini Kanungo
Xerox Webster Research Center
Karen Kennedy
Air Products and Chemicals
Darby Kimball
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mykel Kochenderfer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Greg Kusinski
Chevron Energy Technology Company
Ken Laberteaux
Toyota Research Institute North America
Gert Lanckriet
Robert Larsen
Dow Corning Corporation
Janice Li
CH2M HILL
Mei Li
C. Michael Lindsay
Air Force Research Laboratory
Jennifer Logue
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James Luedtke
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carmel Majidi
John McCloy
Washington State University
Thomas McGuire
Lockheed Martin
Meredith Morris
Philipp Mueller
Vidhya Navalpakkam
Google
Alexander Orlov
Stony Brook University
John Owens
University of California, Davis
Bo Pang
Ah-Hyung Park
Columbia University
Leila Parsa
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Marco Pavone
Stanford University
Ashley Peterson
Medtronic
Mina Rais-Zadeh
University of Michigan
Sundar Ramamurthy
Applied Materials
Narayan Ramesh
Dow Chemical Company
Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez
Stevens Institute of Technology
Patrick Reed
Cornell University
Travis Reine
ExxonMobil Corp.
Carol Rose
STV
Eric Ruggiero
GE Global Research Center
Tuhin Sahai
United Technologies Research Center
Jay Sayre
Battelle Memorial Institute
John Schuller
University of California, Santa Barbara
Hae-Jong Seo
Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
Lisa Shafer
Jian Sheng
Texas Tech University
Weidong Song
Boeing Company
Samuel Stanton
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Bret Thomson
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center - Pacific
Brian Thurow
Auburn University
Alberto Valdes-Garcia
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Brett Van Horn
Arkema Inc.
Subhas Venayagamoorthy
Colorado State University
Subramaniam Venkatraman
Fitbit
Pawel Woelke
Weidlinger Associates, Inc.
Robert Worl
Chongjin Xie
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Chong Wing Yung
Agilent Technologies
Xuanhe Zhao
Duke University
Speakers at this year's event are:
Tony Jebara
Rob Miller
Kate Starbird
University of Washington
Duncan Watts
Dragan Djurdjanovic
University of Texas, Austin
Chris Will
Apriso and FlexNet
Steve Ellet
CHAINalytics
Steve Skerlos
Laura Diaz Anadon
Harvard University
Joyce Yang
US Department of Energy
Willem Rensink
Shell USA
Rachel Segalman
University of California, Berkeley
Antonio Facchetti
Polyera Inc.
Nanshu Lu
Polina Anikeeva
The organizers of the 2013 symposium are:
Kristi Anseth (chair)
University of Colorado, Boulder
Tanzeem Choudhury
Scott Klemmer
Elizabeth Hoegeman
Cummins Inc.
Rhett Mayor
Halil Berberoglu
Stuart Thomas
Lynn Loo
Princeton University
Tina Ng
Palo Alto Research Center
Sponsors for the 2013 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are DuPont, The Grainger Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, and Cummins Inc.
The mission of NAE is to advance the well-being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshalling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology. The NAE is part of the National Academies (along with the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council), an independent, nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to provide objective analysis and advice to the nation on matters of science and technology.