Date: July 11, 2006
Contacts: Janet Hunziker, NAE Program Officer
202-334-1571; e-mail <jhunziker@nae.edu>
Randy Atkins, NAE Sr. Program Officer for Media/Public Relations
202-334-1508; e-mail <atkins@nae.edu>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Inventive Young Engineers Selected to Participate in
NAE's 2006 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
WASHINGTON -- Eighty-one of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 12th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The 2½-day event will bring together engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing cutting-edge 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 nearly 200 applicants.
“At Frontiers of Engineering, engineers share know-how from multiple fields and initiate collaborations that may one day solve complex problems,” said NAE President Wm. A. Wulf. “Engineers like these -- who possess both extensive knowledge and broad interests -- are essential to U.S. competitiveness in the future.”
The symposium will be held Sept. 21–23 at Ford Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn, Mich., and will examine the nanotechnology-biology interface, intelligent software systems and machines, supply chain management, and personal mobility. Anne L. Stevens, executive vice president and chief operating officer for the Americas, Ford Motor Co., will be a featured speaker. Her responsibilities at Ford have ranged from operating assembly plants to directing product development and manufacturing. Prior to joining Ford, Stevens worked at Exxon Mobil Corp.
The following engineers were selected as general participants:
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Alexis Abramson |
Case Western Reserve University |
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Stephanie Adams |
University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
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David Anderson |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Mark Anderson |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Ana Anton |
North Carolina State University |
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George Bachand |
Sandia National Laboratories |
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Qing Bai |
Agilent Technologies Inc. |
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Bradley Bebee |
Science Applications International Corp. |
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Chandra Bhat |
University of Texas, Austin |
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Stephan Biller |
General Motors Corp. |
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Richard Boger |
ABAQUS Inc. |
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David Bruemmer |
Idaho National Laboratory |
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Bryan Cantrill |
Sun Microsystems Inc. |
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Kimberly Chaffin |
Medtronic Inc. |
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Jane Chang |
University of California, Los Angeles |
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Jia Chen |
IBM Corp. |
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Aref Chowdhury |
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies |
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Zissis Dardas |
United Technologies Research Center |
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Jerrett Datcher |
Boeing Phantom Works |
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Moses David |
3M Co. |
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Matthew DeLisa |
Cornell University |
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Anne Dillon |
National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
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Scott Doebling |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Ye Fang |
Corning Inc. |
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Andrei Fedorov |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Suresh Garimella |
Purdue University |
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Michael Garvin |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
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Irene Georgakoudi |
Tufts University |
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Cindie Giummarra |
Alcoa Inc. |
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Anita Goel |
Nanobiosym Inc. |
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Christine Grant |
North Carolina State University |
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Paula Hicks |
Cargill Inc. |
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Ron Ho |
Sun Microsystems Laboratories |
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Mani Janakiram |
Intel Corp. |
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Paul Johnson |
Arizona State University |
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Ruben Juanes |
University of Texas, Austin |
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Krishna Kalyanasundaram |
Motorola Inc. |
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Deepak Khosla |
HRL Laboratories LLC |
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Steven Kou |
Columbia University |
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Olga Kuchar |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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David LaVan |
Yale University |
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Philip LeDuc |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Lorraine Lin |
Bechtel National Inc. |
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Melissa Lunden |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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Teng Ma |
Florida State University |
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Surya Mallapragada |
Iowa State University |
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Rajit Manohar |
Cornell University |
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Yoky Matsuoka |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Lawrence Megan |
Praxair Inc. |
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Matthew Mehalik |
University of Pittsburgh |
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Nefaa Mekhilef |
Arkema Inc. |
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Sergey Melnik |
Microsoft Research USA |
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Josh Molho |
Caliper Life Sciences |
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Jeffrey Montanye |
Dow Chemical Co. |
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Kumar Muthuraman |
Purdue University |
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Timothy Nolen |
Eastman Chemical Co. |
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Eric Ott |
GE – Aviation |
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Jonathan Preston |
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. |
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William Provine |
DuPont Co. |
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Adam Rasheed |
General Electric Global Research |
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Todd Salamon |
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies |
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Corey Schumacher |
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Kenneth Shepard |
Columbia University |
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Aghijit Shevade |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Michael Siemer |
Mydea Technologies Corp. |
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Vija Singh |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Sanjiv Sinha |
Environmental Consulting & Technology Inc. |
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Hyongsok Soh |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Margarita Thompson |
Delphi Corp. |
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Sammy Tin |
Illinois Institute of Technology |
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Manuel Torres |
Science Applications International Corp. |
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Aditya Tyagi |
CH2M Hill |
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Michiel van Nieuwstadt |
Ford Motor Co. |
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Pavlos Vlachos |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
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Michael Washington |
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Colin Whelan |
Raytheon Co. |
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Christopher Wolverton |
Ford Motor Co. |
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Gerard Wong |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Aleksey Yezerets |
Cummins Inc. |
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ChengXiang Zhai |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Jingren Zhou |
Microsoft Research |
Speakers at this year’s event are:
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Robert Axtell |
The Brookings Institution |
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Matt Barth |
University of California, Riverside |
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Marcel Bruchez |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Timothy Deming |
University of California, Los Angeles |
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Brenda Dietrich |
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
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Rebekah Drezek |
Rice University |
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Michael Johnson |
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Risto Miikkulainen |
University of Texas, Austin |
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Andreas Schäfer |
University of Cambridge |
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Andreas Schell |
DaimlerChrysler |
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Alan Schultz |
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory |
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Morley Stone |
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory |
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Mark Wang |
RAND Corp. |
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Lloyd Watts |
Audience Inc. |
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Susan Zielinski |
University of Michigan |
The organizers of the 2006 symposium are:
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Julia Phillips (chair) |
Sandia National Laboratories |
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Apoorv Agarwal |
Ford Motor Co. |
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M. Brian Blake |
Georgetown University |
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Tejal Desai |
University of California, San Francisco |
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David Fogel |
Natural Selection Inc. |
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Hiroshi Matsui |
City University of New York, Hunter College |
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Jennifer Ryan |
University College Dublin |
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William Schneider |
University of Notre Dame |
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Julie Swann |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Sponsors for the 2006 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering are the Ford Motor Co., the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the U.S. Department of Defense (DDR&E–Research), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Cummins Inc., 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.
To read more about Frontiers of Engineering, visit the NAE Web site at <http://www.nae.edu/frontiers>. A meeting program is also available at the site.
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