Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Drink the Water Mon, October 14, 2019 NAE member and FOE alum David Sedlak at UC Berkeley explains that US drinking water regulations are based on a complex balance between health risks from possible carcinogens and the cost of implementing new water cleaning systems. Read More
Low-Energy Alternative For Chemical Separations Tue, October 08, 2019 Georgia Tech's Mark Losego (USFOE 2018) is engineering metal oxide-infused membranes to reduce the energy needed by distillation processes, which consume a massive amount of energy each year separating and refining feedstocks to make gasoline, plastics, food, and other products. Read More
Improving National Water Security Thu, October 03, 2019 FOE alum Karl Linden at the University of Colorado Boulder is engineering energy-efficient and competitive desalination technologies to secure a circular water economy in which 90% of nontraditional water sources can be cost-competitive with existing water sources within 10 years. Read More
Using Hydrogels to Repair Heart Muscle Tue, October 01, 2019 FOE alum Karen Christman at the University of California, San Diego has engineered an injectable hydrogel to repair cardiac tissue in patients who have suffered a heart attack. Read More
New Metamaterial Morphs Into New Shapes With New Properties Thu, September 12, 2019 FOE alum Julia Greer at CalTech has engineered an architected metamaterial that has the ability to change shape in a tunable fashion, with potential applications in next-generation energy storage and bioimplantable microdevices. Read More
Antineutrino Detection Could Help Remotely Monitor Nuclear Reactors Mon, September 09, 2019 Georgia Tech’s Anna Erickson (USFOE 2015) has engineered a method to measure the flow of subatomic particles known as antineutrinos from nuclear reactors. This continuous remote monitoring is designed to detect fueling changes that might indicate the diversion of nuclear materials. Read More
Upcoming Nov 18 2019 - Nov 20 2019 2019 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2019 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held November 18 - 20 in Stockholm, Sweden. About 60 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: 5G and Internet of ... Stockholm, Sweden
Upcoming Jun 22 2020 - Jun 24 2020 2020 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2020 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held in the United States. Sixty of the most promising early career engineers from Japan and the United States will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering ... Irvine, California
Upcoming Sep 14 2020 - Sep 16 2020 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium The 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering will be hosted by the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado, September 14-16. About 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: ... National Renewable Energy Lab Golden, Colorado
Register for Oct. 10 Webinar: Research and Mentoring Program NSF's REM program seeks to advance scientific progress in research and innovation while broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Read More
Bacteria That Grows Into Bricks Wil Srubar (USFOE 2017) at the University of Colorado Boulder is engineering living hybrid building material that exhibits both structural and biological functions. Read More
Project Confluence Focus on Engineers and Scientists Darshan Karwat (USFOE 2018) at Arizona State University provided a link to a recent webinar (Webinar 2) related to his work with re-Engineered. Read More
Old Robot Has New Tricks At the University of California, Berkeley, Ronald Fearing (USFOE 2001) has engineered a jumping robot with control systems that allow the agile machine to master increasingly complex tasks. Read More
Register for Mathematical Frontiers Webinars Mathematical foundations and opportunities in cryptography and cybersecurity will be discussed in this week's webinar, part of a monthly series on exciting and upcoming mathematics research across an array of topics. Read More
Spiderwebs That Sing FOE alum Markus Buehler at MIT engineered "Spider’s Canvas," an exploration that sonifies the threads of a spider web by applying different frequencies of sound to different lengths of spider webs. Spider webs feature hierarchical structures similar to the complex harmonies and rhythms music. Read More
Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change This video introduces a new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine asserting that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for--and in many cases is already affecting--a broad range of human and natural systems. Read More
Engineering and Science for Grades 6-12 Centering science instruction around investigation and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the world around them. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2018 Symposium This volume includes 12 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2018 US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium held in September 2018. US FOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2018 symposium covered four topic areas: Quantum Computers: Are We There Yet?, the Role of Engineering in the Face of Conflict and Disaster, Resilient and Reliable Infrastructure, and Theranostics. The papers describe leading-edge research on these topics, among others: quantum computing, combining formal and informal structures in crisis response, infrastructure resilience, and immune theranostics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and participants. This is the 24th volume in the US Frontiers of Engineering series. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2017 Symposium This volume includes 12 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium held in September 2017. US FOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2017 symposium covered four topic areas: Machines That Teach Themselves, Energy Strategies to Power Our Future, Unraveling the Complexity of the Brain, and Megatall Buildings and Other Future Places of Work. The papers describe leading-edge research on such topics as whether machines can spot diseases faster than humans, wireless charging of electric vehicles, brain-machine interfaces, and functional natural materials for high-rise structures, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the twenty-second volume in the US FOE series. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2016 Symposium This volume includes 13 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering (US FOE) Symposium held in September 2016. US FOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2016 symposium covered four topic areas: Pixels at Scale, Extreme Engineering, Water Desalination and Purification, and Technologies for Understanding and Treating Cancer. The papers describe leading-edge research on such topics as frontiers in virtual reality headsets, autonomous precision landing of space rockets, new materials for emerging desalination technologies, and engineering immunity against cancer, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the twenty-third volume in the US FOE series. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2015 Symposium This volume includes 14 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2015. USFOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2015 symposium covered four topic areas: Cybersecurity and Privacy, Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets, Optical and Mechanical Metamaterials, and Forecasting Natural Disasters. The papers describe leading-edge research on such topics as designing materials with unprecedented capabilities, building image-relaying mechanisms to better explore exoplanets, and improving medical device cybersecurity, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the twenty-first volume in the USFOE series. Read More
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2014 Symposium This volume includes 13 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2014 US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2014. USFOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2014 symposium covered four topic areas:Co-Robotics, Battery Anxiety, Technologies for the Heart, and Shale Gas and Oil. The papers describe leading-edge research on such topics as progress in self-driving vehicles, lithion ion batteries and their manufacturing challenges, biomaterials for treating myocardial infarctions, and microbial ecology of hydraulic fracturing, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the twentieth volume in the USFOE series. Read More