Program
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
Tenth Annual Symposium on
Frontiers of Engineering
September 9-11, 2004
ENGINEERING FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
Organizers: Mary Kae Lockwood and John W. Weatherly
Cool Robots: Scalable Mobile Robots for Instrument Network Deployment in Polar Climates
Laura R. Ray, Dartmouth College
The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Extreme Engineering Projects
Jon Berkoe, Bechtel National, Inc.
The Challenges of Landing on Mars
Tommaso P. Rivellini, Jet Propulsion Lab
Accessing the Lunar Poles for Human Exploration Missions
B. Kent Joosten, NASA Johnson Space Center
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DESIGNER MATERIALS
Organizers: Kristi S. Anseth and Diann E. Brei
Thin-Film Active Materials
Greg P. Carman, University of California, Los Angeles
The Future of Engineering Materials: Mutlifunction for Performance-Tailored Structures
Leslie A. Momoda, HRL Laboratories, LLC
Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering
Jennifer L. West, Rice University
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DINNER SPEAKER
Unlikely Partners: DARPA and Me
Alex Singer, film director
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MULTISCALE MODELING
Organizers: Grant S. Heffelfinger and Dimitrios Maroudas
Equation-Free Modeling For Complex Systems
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Princeton University
Modeling the Stuff of the Material World: Do We Need All of the Atoms?
Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology
Balancing Scales in Biological Models
Adam Paul Arkin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Small-Scale Processes and Large-Scale Simulations of the Climate System
Bjorn B. Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles, and National Center for Atmospheric Research
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ENGINEERING AND ENTERTAINMENT
Organizers: David Baraff and Chris Kyriakakis
Capturing and Simulating Physically Accurate Illumination in Computer Graphics
Paul Debevec, University of Southern California
Spatial Audio Reproduction: Toward Individualized Binaural Sound
William G. Gardner, Wave Arts, Inc.
Designing Socially Intelligent Robots
Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology