Date: June 17, 2008
Contacts: Janet Hunziker, NAE Senior Program Officer
202-334-1571; e-mail <jhunziker@nae.edu>
Randy Atkins, NAE Senior Media Relations Officer
202-334-1508; e-mail <atkins@nae.edu>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Creative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in
NAE's 2008 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
WASHINGTON -- Eighty-two of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The 2½-day event will bring together engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from more than 230 applicants.
"America's competitiveness will largely depend upon the next generation of innovators," said NAE President Charles M. Vest. "The U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program brings some of the country's rising-star engineers, from a diverse range of disciplines, together for an exchange of ideas that will surely help contribute to keeping us at the forefront of technological advancement and may even spark a breakthrough that changes the way we live."
The symposium will be hosted Sept. 18-20 by Sandia National Laboratories at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and will examine emerging nanoelectric devices, cognitive engineering, drug delivery systems, and understanding and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. A featured speaker will be Alton D. Romig Jr., senior vice president and deputy director for integrated technologies and systems, Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Romig leads Sandia's engineering and development activities for U.S. programs in nonproliferation, counterintelligence, security, energy and resources, and infrastructure. His expertise in materials science garnered him the National Materials Advancement Award, and he is a member of the NAE.
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
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Bryan Adams |
iRobot Corp. |
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Holger Amort |
Arkema Inc. |
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Jose Andrade |
Northwestern University |
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Shelley Anna |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Ralph Anthenien |
Army Research Office |
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Sasan Bakhtiari |
Argonne National Laboratory |
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Alexandre Bayen |
University of California, Berkeley |
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Igor Benko |
Sun Microsystems Inc. |
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Nicole Blute |
Malcolm Pirnie Inc. |
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Alexandria Boehm |
Stanford University |
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Joshua Boltz |
CH2M HILL |
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Josh Bongard |
University of Vermont |
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Donald Bott |
Xerox Corp. |
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Maggie Bynum |
Agilent Laboratories |
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Kirk Cameron |
Virginia Tech |
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Jonathan Caulkins |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Leo Chiang |
Dow Chemical Co. |
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Mung Chiang |
Princeton University |
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Tushar Choudhary |
ConocoPhillips Co. |
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Catherine Corrigan |
Exponent Inc. |
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Levent Degertekin |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Tim Denison |
Medtronic Inc. |
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Christopher Doerr |
Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs |
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Amy Duwel |
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory |
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Thomas Epps |
University of Delaware |
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Malcolm Fabiyi |
Praxair Inc. |
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Roy Fielding |
Day Software, Inc. |
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Tim Frazier |
Cummins Inc. |
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Chris Gearhart |
Ford Motor Co. |
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Kathleen Gillespie |
General Motors Corp. |
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Alex Gorokhov |
Qualcomm Inc. |
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Michael Graham |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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James Gregory |
Ohio State University |
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Louise Hamlin |
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Mitra Hartmann |
Northwestern University |
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Katherine Herrick |
Raytheon Co. |
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Inseok Hwang |
Purdue University |
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Michael Isard |
Microsoft Research |
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Paul Jacob |
MMI Engineering Inc. |
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Hamid Jafarkhani |
University of California, Irvine |
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Zhenhua Jiang |
University of Miami |
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Vanja Josifovski |
Yahoo! Inc. |
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Annie Kammerer |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
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Paul Kenis |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Brian Kirby |
Cornell University |
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Mayuresh Kothare |
Lehigh University |
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Robert Leland |
Sandia National Laboratories |
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Guifang Li |
University of Central Florida |
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Reece Lumsden |
Boeing Co. |
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Zhengxiang Ma |
FutureWei Technologies Inc. |
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Ellen Mangan |
MathWorks Inc. |
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Russell Meller |
University of Arkansas |
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Karen Miller |
Drexel University |
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Raymond Moran |
PB Americas Inc. |
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Vivek Narasayya |
Microsoft Research |
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Patrick O'Mara |
STV Inc. |
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Matteo Pasquali |
Rice University |
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Michael Picciolo |
SAIC |
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Mark Prausnitz |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Amy Pruden |
Colorado State University |
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Christopher Schuh |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Jeffrey Scruggs |
Duke University |
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Jayshree Seth |
3M Co. |
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Marcus Shaw |
Aerospace Corp. |
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Andrew Singer |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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James Singletary |
DuPont Co. |
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Eric Smith |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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Narayan Srinivasa |
HRL Laboratories LLC |
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Shaun Sullivan |
Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. |
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Mark Swihart |
University at Buffalo (SUNY) |
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Jose Tabora |
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. |
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Ichiro Takeuchi |
University of Maryland |
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Hong Tang |
Yale University |
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Jason Trachewsky |
Broadcom Corp. |
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Andrew Tsourkas |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Stephen Uftring |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Omar Varela |
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. |
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Carlo Williams |
Corning Inc. |
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Peter Winzer |
Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs |
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Jihui Yang |
General Motors Research & Development Center |
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Ji-Cheng Zhao |
Ohio State University |
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Michelle Zhou |
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
Speakers at this year's event are:
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Charles Beames |
USSTRATCOM Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction |
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Ann Bisantz |
University at Buffalo |
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Ronald Boring |
Idaho National Laboratory |
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Xiaohu Gao |
University of Washington |
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Stephanie Guerlain |
University of Virginia |
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Jeffrey Hrkach |
BIND Biosciences Inc. |
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Ali Javey |
University of California, Berkeley |
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John Lee |
University of Iowa |
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Joseph Martz |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Samir Mitragotri |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Steven Nixon |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
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Mihri Ozkan |
University of California, Riverside |
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Daniel Pack |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Jeff Welser |
IBM and SRC Nanoelectronics Research Initiative |
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Nikolai Zhitenev |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
The organizers of the 2008 symposium are:
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Barrett Caldwell |
Purdue University |
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Jia Chen |
IBM Corp. |
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J. Scott Goldstein |
SAIC |
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William Grieco |
PetroAlgae LLC |
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Efrosini Kokkoli |
University of Minnesota |
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Julia Phillips |
Sandia National Laboratories |
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Kim Vicente |
University of Toronto |
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Victor Zhirnov |
Semiconductor Research Corp. |
Sponsors for the 2008 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Department of Defense (DDR&E-Research), the National Science Foundation, Corning Inc., Cummins Inc., The Grainger Foundation, Intel Corp., Microsoft Research, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, and numerous individual donors.
The National Academy of Engineering is an independent, nonprofit institution that serves as an adviser to government and the public on issues in engineering and technology. Its members consist of the nation's premier engineers, who are elected by their peers for their distinguished achievements. Established in 1964, NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863.
A meeting program and more information about Frontiers of Engineering is available at <http://www.nae.edu/frontiers>.
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[This news release is available at <www.nationalacademies.org>.]
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