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
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'
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
Nicholas Able |
Ingersoll Rand |
Nelson Alshakim |
IBM Research, Almaden |
Yves Baeyens |
Alcatel-Lucent, |
Sumit Basu |
Microsoft |
Sandor Becz |
United |
Randall Booker |
Malcolm Pirnie Inc. |
Jason Burdick |
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Ali Butt |
Virginia Tech |
Mark Byrne |
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Thomas Chapman |
Corning Inc. |
Yong Chen |
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Tanzeem Choudhury |
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Brian Coombe |
Bechtel |
Michael Degner |
Ford Motor Co. |
Steven Demetropoulos |
Port Authority of |
David Erickson |
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Rene-Jean Essiambre |
Alcatel-Lucent, |
Molly Finster |
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Eric Furst |
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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 |
Jocelyn Hicks-Garner |
HRL Laboratories LLC |
Mark Hilburger |
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Gabriel Hoffmann |
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Tracy Honeycutt |
Southern Nuclear Operating |
Jilei Hou |
Qualcomm Inc. |
Gareth Jolly |
General Motors, |
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Jordan Katine |
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David Kerxhalli |
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William King |
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Gerhard Klimeck |
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Farinaz Koushanfar |
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Ramanan Krishnamoorti |
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Terrence Ladau |
The Aerospace Corp. |
Jacob Langelaan |
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Blake Larson |
Cummins Inc. |
Catherine Leatherdale |
3M Company |
Tonya Love |
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Hang Lu |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Helen Lu |
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Christian Lutkemeyer |
Broadcom Corp. |
SuPing Lyu |
Medtronic |
Sara McComb |
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Beverley McKeon |
California Institute of Technology |
Edward Miller, Jr. |
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products LLC |
Subhasish Mitra |
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Jeff Moehlis |
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Andreas Molisch |
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William Murphy |
University of |
Riaz Musani |
The Aerospace Corp. |
Mangapathirao Mynam |
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. |
Vijay Narayanan |
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Ken Nishimura |
Agilent Technologies Inc. |
Stephen Paglieri |
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John Palamara |
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. |
Babak Parviz |
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Glenn Paskoff |
Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command |
Meredith Reed |
US Army Research Laboratory |
William Regli |
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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 |
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Sudipta Seal |
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William Slye |
Praxair Inc. |
Michael Smith |
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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 |
Marvin Warner |
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Eric Wilhelm |
Instructables |
Ronggui Yang |
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Michael Yu |
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Muhammad Zaman |
University of |
Huimin Zhao |
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Alan Zimmerman |
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems |
Speakers at this year's event are:
Elmer Bernstam |
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Stephanie Chang |
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David Dorr |
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Riley Duren |
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Claire Gmachl |
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Carla Gomes |
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Arpad Horvath |
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Michael Krames |
Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. |
Vinothan Manoharan |
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Genevieve Melton-Meaux |
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Lukas Novotny |
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Lucila Ohno-Machado |
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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) |
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Stephanie Guerlain |
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Seth Guikema |
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Louise Hamlin |
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Eva Lee |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Michal Lipson |
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J. Christopher Love |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Patrick O'Mara |
STV Inc. |
Naren Ramakrishnan |
Virginia Tech |
Nelson Tansu |
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Sponsors for the 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are The Grainger Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research,
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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