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Frontiers of Engineering is the fifth book highlighting the presentations of the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) annual symposium series, Frontiers of Engineering. The 1999 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering was held October 14-16, at the Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, California. The 101 emerging engineering leaders (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and federal laboratories who attended the meeting heard presentations and discussed cutting-edge research and technical work in four engineering fields. Symposium speakers were asked to prepare extended summaries of their presentations, and it is those papers that are contained here. The intent of this book, and of the four that precede it in the series, is to describe the content and underpinning philosophy of this unique meeting and to highlight some of the exciting developments in engineering today.

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National Academy of Engineering. 2000. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading Edge Engineering from the 1999 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/9774.

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138 pages |  6 x 9 | 

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  • Paperback:  978-0-309-06933-5
  • Ebook:  978-0-309-18363-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/9774
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Front Matter i-x
1 Drowning in Data 1-24
2 Making Sense of the Human Genome 25-28
3 Engineering Novel Structures 29-48
4 Energy for the Future and Its Environmental Impact 49-70
5 Optics 71-90
6 Dinner Speech 91-98
Appendix A: Break-out Session Outcomes 99-110
Appendix B: Contributors 111-116
Appendix C: Program 117-118
Appendix D: Participants 119-128

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