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Date: June 25, 2009

Contacts: Randy Atkins, NAE

202-334-1508; atkins@nae.edu

Janet Hunziker, NAE

202-334-1571; jhunziker@nae.edu

Creative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in

NAE's 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

WASHINGTON -- Eighty-eight of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 15th 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 approximately 240 applicants.

"In today’s challenging economic times, we look more than ever toward our engineering innovators," said NAE President Charles M. Vest. "The U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a diverse group of this country's most promising young engineers, and gives them a forum to discuss multi-disciplinary ways of addressing the issues that will carry us into tomorrow's economy."

The symposium will be held Sept. 10-12 at the National Academies' Beckman Center at the University of California, Irvine, and will examine engineering tools for scientific discovery; engineering the health care delivery system; nano/micro photonics and new applications; and resilient and sustainable infrastructures. A featured speaker will be Bradford W. Parkinson, Edward C. Wells Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Emeritus at Stanford University. Parkinson is credited with being the father of the Global Positioning System and is a recipient of the prestigious Draper Prize and a member of the NAE.

The following engineers were selected as general participants:

Nicholas Able	Ingersoll Rand
Nelson Alshakim	IBM Research, Almaden
Yves Baeyens	Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs
Sumit Basu	Microsoft
Sandor Becz	United Technologies Research Center
Randall Booker	Malcolm Pirnie Inc.
Jason Burdick	University of Pennsylvania
Ali Butt	Virginia Tech
Mark Byrne	Auburn University
Thomas Chapman	Corning Inc.
Yong Chen	University of Southern California
Tanzeem Choudhury	Dartmouth College
Brian Coombe	Bechtel
Michael Degner	Ford Motor Co.
Steven Demetropoulos	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
David Erickson	Cornell University
Rene-Jean Essiambre	Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs
Molly Finster	Argonne National Laboratory
Eric Furst	University of Delaware
Ariel Fuxman	Microsoft
Evgeniy Gabrilovich	Yahoo! Research
Manuel Garcia-Leiner	Arkema Inc.
Julia Greer	California Institute of Technology
Andrew Guenthner	Department of the Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center
Jocelyn Hicks-Garner	HRL Laboratories LLC
Mark Hilburger	NASA Langley Research Center
Gabriel Hoffmann	Palo Alto Research Center
Tracy Honeycutt	Southern Nuclear Operating Co.
Jilei Hou	Qualcomm Inc.
Gareth Jolly	General Motors, North America
Ravi Kane	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jordan Katine	HGST San Jose Research Center
David Kerxhalli	Xerox Research Center
William King	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gerhard Klimeck	Purdue University
Farinaz Koushanfar	Rice University
Ramanan Krishnamoorti	University of Houston
Terrence Ladau	The Aerospace Corp.
Jacob Langelaan	Pennsylvania State University
Blake Larson	Cummins Inc.
Catherine Leatherdale	3M Company
Tonya Love	Xerox Research Center Webster
Hang Lu	Georgia Institute of Technology
Helen Lu	Columbia University
Christian Lutkemeyer	Broadcom Corp.
SuPing Lyu	Medtronic
Sara McComb	Texas A&M University
Beverley McKeon	California Institute of Technology
Edward Miller, Jr.	DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products LLC
Subhasish Mitra	Stanford University
Jeff Moehlis	University of California, Santa Barbara
Andreas Molisch	University of Southern California
William Murphy	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Riaz Musani	The Aerospace Corp.
Mangapathirao Mynam	Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc.
Vijay Narayanan	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ken Nishimura	Agilent Technologies Inc.
Stephen Paglieri	Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Palamara	Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
Babak Parviz	University of Washington
Glenn Paskoff	Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command
Meredith Reed	US Army Research Laboratory
William Regli	Drexel University
Maureen Reitman	Exponent - Failure Analysis Associates
Mark Rintoul	Sandia National Laboratories
Nicholas Roy	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Samuel Sadoulet	Edmund Optics Inc
Marc Schaepkens	Momentive Performance Materials
Fred Schauer	Air Force Research Laboratory
Jon Schell	Medtronic
James Schmiedeler	University of Notre Dame
Sudipta Seal	University of Central Florida
William Slye	Praxair Inc.
Michael Smith	Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Tompkins	CH2M HILL
Eric Tseng	Ford Motor Co.
Srinivas Tummala	Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Kevin Uptain	Cargill Inc.
Krystyn Van Vliet	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Walker	Southwest Research Institute
Steven Waller	University of Texas, Austin
Marvin Warner	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Eric Wilhelm	Instructables
Ronggui Yang	University of Colorado, Boulder
Michael Yu	Johns Hopkins University
Muhammad Zaman	University of Texas, Austin
Huimin Zhao	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Alan Zimmerman	Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

Speakers at this year's event are:

Elmer Bernstam	University of Texas, Houston
Stephanie Chang	University of British Colombia
David Dorr	Oregon Health and Science University
Riley Duren	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Claire Gmachl	Princeton University
Carla Gomes	Cornell University
Arpad Horvath	University of California, Berkeley
Michael Krames	Philips Lumileds Lighting Co.
Vinothan Manoharan	Harvard University
Genevieve Melton-Meaux	University of Minnesota
Lukas Novotny	University of Rochester
Lucila Ohno-Machado	Harvard Medical School
Oskar Painter	California Institute of Technology
Kristina Swallow	AVP Consulting Inc.
Sean Wiggins	Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The organizers of the 2009 symposium are:

Andrew Weiner (Chair)	Purdue University
Stephanie Guerlain	University of Virginia
Seth Guikema	Johns Hopkins University
Louise Hamlin	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Eva Lee	Georgia Institute of Technology
Michal Lipson	Cornell University
J. Christopher Love	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Patrick O'Mara	STV Inc.
Naren Ramakrishnan	Virginia Tech
Nelson Tansu	Lehigh University

Sponsors for the 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Department of Defense (DDR&E-Research), the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research, and Cummins Inc.

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 are available at <http://www.nae.edu/frontiers>.

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