June 25, 2009 —

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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