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Sun, June 29, 2014
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Washington, DC, June 30, 2014 – Eighty-three of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 20th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) 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 almost 300 applicants.
The 2014 USFOE will be held on September 11-13, at the National Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif., and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: next-generation robotics, frontiers in materials for batteries, shale gas and oil, and technologies for the heart. “The USFOE symposium is the perfect network for these talented, early-career engineers to develop those personal and professional relationships that will shape their work and ultimately impact our world,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr.
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Leonardo Ajdelsztajn
GE Global Research
Andrea Alu
University of Texas at Austin
Jernej Barbic
University of Southern California
Sarah Bergbreiter
University of Maryland
Andrew Blanksby
Broadcom Corporation
Jasmine Bridges
US Department of Energy
Heidi Burch
DuPont
Pinar Cakir Kavcar
Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals Inc.
Benton Calhoun
University of Virginia
Moises Carreon
Colorado School of Mines
Nikita Chugunov
Schlumberger-Doll Research
Michael Dickey
North Carolina State University
Jeanette Domber
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp
Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan Drapeau
Medtronic Sofamor Danek
Rebecca Dylla-Spears
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jonathan Fan
Stanford University
Zhanpeng Feng
Outward, Inc.
Nicolas Fontaine
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Laurie Garrow
Georgia Institute of Technology
Nathan Gnanasambandam
Palo Alto Research Center
James Goldbach
Arkema Inc.
Douglas Graham
Procter & Gamble Company
Timothy Graves
Aerospace Corporation
Richard Helvick
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc
Tara Hemami
Cummins Inc.
Rashaunda Henderson
University of Texas, Dallas
Brian Hershberger
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
Heiko Hoffmann
HRL Laboratories
Cherian Idicheria
General Motors Global Research & Development
Ronel Kappes
Newmont Mining Corporation
Amey Karnik
Ford Motor Company
Dina Katabi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Raghunandan Keshavan
Google
Catherine Klapperich
Boston University
Hadas Kress-Gazit
Cornell University
Kimberly Kurtis
Tolga Kurtoglu
PARC
Greg Kusinski
Chevron Energy Technology Company
Juha-Pekka Laine
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Javad Lavaei
Columbia University
Barbara Linke
University of California, Davis
Elizabeth Lipke
Auburn University
Ce Liu
Microsoft
Zhaowei Liu
University of California, San Diego
Eric Masanet
Northwestern University
David Mascarenas
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Steven Meier
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Ioannis (Yiangos) Mikellides
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robert Moser
US Army Corps of Engineers
Michael Motala
Eastman Kodak Company
Todd Murphey
Lama Nachman
Intel Labs
Lakshmi Nair
University of Connecticut
Felix Nguyen
Toray Composites (America), Inc.
William Nothwang
US Army Research Laboratory
Daniela Oliveira
University of Florida
Bradley Olsen
Caroline Pantofaru
William Peter
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rodney Priestley
Princeton University
Andrew Quanbeck
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mehrsa Raeiszadeh
Celanese Chemicals
Warren Ruder
Virginia Tech
Justin Sanchez
University of Miami
Kyle Schleifer
Agilent Laboratories
Scott Snelling
Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc
Sibendu Som
Argonne National Laboratory
Jonathan Spanier
Drexel University
Conrad Stoldt
University of Colorado Boulder
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
New York University
Akane Suzuki
Luke Sweatlock
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Jaime Teevan
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
University of California, Berkeley
Megan Valentine
University of California, Santa Barbara
Rui Vogt Alves da Cruz
Dow Chemical Company
Mitchell Walker
Christopher Wilcox
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Tak-Sing Wong
Pennsylvania State University
Xinyu ""Cindy"" Xu
Hakki Yegingil
Vesuvius
Pablo Zavattieri
Purdue University
Speakers at this year's event are:
Jason Burdick
University of Pennsylvania
Claus Daniel
Kelvin Gregory
Carnegie Mellon University
Dennis Hong
UCLA
Stephen Ingram
Halliburton
Alvaro Masias
Shirley Meng
W. David Merryman
Vanderbilt University
Tina Morrison
Food and Drug Administration
Allison Okamura
Johns Hopkins University
Erin Spinner
Edwards Lifesciences
Eric Stangland
The Dow Chemical Company
Sarah Stewart
Robert Bosch LLC
Chris Urmson
Matthew Williamson
Rethink Robotics
The organizers of the 2014 symposium are:
Kristi Anseth (Chair)
Billy Bardin
Karen Christman
Brian Gerkey
Open Source Robotics Foundation
Christopher Jones
Carmel Majidi
Ashley (Ash) Peterson
Medtronic
Jeff Sakamoto
Michigan State University
Daniel Steingart
Sponsors for the 2014 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, and Cummins Inc.
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