Participants
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
Tenth Annual Symposium on
Frontiers of Engineering
September 9-11, 2004
Cameron F. Abrams
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Drexel University
Andrew Alleyne
Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Luis A. Nunes Amaral
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Northwestern University
Guillermo Ameer
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Department
Northwestern University
Arnon Amir
Research Staff Member
IBM Almaden Research Center
Kristi S. Anseth
Tisone Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Associate Professor of Surgery, and HHMI Assistant Investigator
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado, Boulder
Adam P. Arkin
Faculty Scientist, Physical Sciences Division,
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
David Baraff (unable to attend)
Senior Animation Scientist
Pixar Animation Studios
Hilary Bart-Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Virginia
Amy E. Bell
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jon Berkoe
Senior Principal Engineer and Manager
Advanced Simulation and Analysis
Bechtel National, Inc.
M. Brian Blake
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Georgetown University
Lawrence E. Bool
Senior Development Associate
Industrial Applications and Healthcare R&D
Praxair, Inc.
Cynthia Breazeal
Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Robotic Life Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diann Brei
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Mark D. Breyen
Principal Scientist
Medtronic, Inc.
Greg P. Carman
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
John E. Carsley
Research Engineer
General Motors Research and Development Center
Danielle Chamberlin
Member of Technical Staff
Micro and Nanoscale Technologies Department
Agilent Laboratories
Christina Chan
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department
Michigan State University
Eric F. Charlton
Engineering Staff
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.
Elaine Chew
Assistant Professor
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
Paul S. Chinnock
Principle Systems Engineer
Systems Engineering
Raytheon Missile Systems
Robert L. Clark
Thomas Lord Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University
Tracy Clarke-Pringle
Senior Consulting Engineer
DuPont Engineering Technology
DuPont Company
Pablo G. Debenedetti
Class of 1950 Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Princeton University
Paul Debevec
Executive Producer, Graphics Research, and Research Assistant Professor
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California
Bryan G. Dods
Manager
Assembly and Quality Technology
Boeing Company
Robert J. Drost
Principal Research Scientist
Sun Microsystems Research Laboratories
John Dunagan
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Ziyad H. Duron
Jude and Eileen Laspa Professor of Engineering
Harvey Mudd College
David B. Fogel
Chief Executive Officer
Natural Selection, Inc.
David M. Ford
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Daniel R. Gamota
Senior Manager and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
Motorola Corporation
William G. Gardner
Founder and President
Wave Arts, Inc.
James L. Garrison
Assistant Professor
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Purdue University
R. Brent Gillespie
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ronald Grundbacher
Section Head
HEMT Technology
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Justin Hanes
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
John Hopkins University
Babak Hassibi
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Grant S. Heffelfinger
Deputy Director
Materials and Process Sciences Center
Sandia National Laboratories
Markus Heinimann
Technical Specialist - Aerospace
Product Design and Analysis
Alcoa Technical Center
Markus Hofmann
Director
Services Infrastructure Department
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Ayanna Howard
Senior Robotic Researcher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nancy L. Johnson
Lab Group Manager
General Motors Research and Development Center
B. Kent Joosten
Deputy Manager
Exploration Analysis and Integration Office
NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Jeyhan Karaoguz
Senior Principal Scientist
Broadcom Corporation
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Princeton University
Chris Kyriakakis
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Research Area Director, Sensory Interfaces
University of Southern California
Mihir Lal
Senior Research Scientist
MicroCoating Technologies, Inc.
Kristin Lauter
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Erin Lavik
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
Kelvin H. Lee
Associate Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Sophia Lefantzi
LT Technical Staff
Combustion Research Facility
Sandia National Laboratories
Valerie J. Leppert
Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering
Division of Engineering
University of California, Merced
Mary Kae Lockwood
Aerospace Engineer
NASA Langley Research Center
Yueh-Lin Loo
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas, Austin
Cristina Videira Lopes
Assistant Professor
School of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Garrick E. Louis
Associate Professor
Department of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia
James Maher
Chief Technical Advisor
Technip Offshore, Inc.
Dimitrios Maroudas
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts
Paul F. McKenzie
Executive Director
Process R&D and Technology Transfer
Bristol Myers Squibb
Leslie A. Momoda
Director
Sensors and Materials Laboratory
HRL Laboratories, LLC
Michael A. Mooney
Associate Professor
Division of Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
John F. Muth
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Hock M. Ng
Member of Technical Staff
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Jason Norman
Section Manager
PGS Technology
BOC Group
Laura O’Donnell
Owner
Synthese, LLC
Avinash S. Patwardhan
Principal Water Resources Engineer
CH2M Hill
Rob Phillips
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Shawn H. Phillips
Chief
Material Applications Branch, Propulsion Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
Patrick Piccione
Research Scientist
Strategic Research
ATOFINA Chemicals, Inc.
David Polidori
Director
Research and Development
Entelos, Inc.
Vikas Prakash
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
David Putnam
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell University
Raj Rajiyah
Executive Director
Applied Mechanics and Materials Engineering
Cummins, Inc.
Sujatha Ramanujan
Research Scientist
Eastman Kodak Company
Ainissa G. Ramirez
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University
Laura R. Ray
Associate Professor
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
Tommaso P. Rivellini
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Virginia Robbins
Principal Project Scientist
Agilent Technologies
Noble L. Rye
Engineer
Modeling Simulation and Analysis
Procter & Gamble Corporation
Gerwin Schalk
Research Scientist III/Chief Software Engineer
New York State Department of Health
Scott E. Schoenfeld
Chief Scientist
Impact Physics
Army Research Laboratory
Sharon Settnek
Program Manager
Science Applications International Corporation
Yang Shao-Horn
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kendra V. Sharp
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Eric V. Shusta
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Karen R. Smilowitz
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University
Jonathan M. Smith
Program Manager
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Christopher L. Soles
Materials Research Engineer
Polymers Division, Electronics Applications Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Donald W. Stanton
Technical Advisor
Combustion Research
Cummins, Inc.
Bjorn B. Stevens
Associate Professor
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Universiy of California, Los Angeles
Natacha Supper
Engineer/Scientist
Hitachi Global Storage Technology Research Center
Julie Swann
Assistant Professor
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Albert S. Tam
Research Manager
DuPont Engineering
Eric G. Thaler
Technology Manager
GE Advanced Materials
John L. Uhrie
Superintendente de Proyectos
Phelps Dodge Mining Corporation
Srinivas Veeramasuneni
Senior Member Technical Staff
USG Research and Technology Center
USG Corporation
Ramesh Visvanathan
Department Head
Real-time Vision and Modeling
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
John M. Vohs
Carl V. Patterson Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Joseph J. Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Yong Wang
Chief Scientist and Team Leader
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Clement Wann
Senior Manager
IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center
Sunil G. Warrier
Project Leader
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Program
United Technologies Research Center
Gregory Washington
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ohio State University
John W. Weatherly
Ice Geophysicist
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Jennifer L. West
Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Departments of Chemical and Bioengineering
Rice University
Ming-Cheng Wu
Staff Research Scientist
Delphi Corporation
Xiang Zhang
Professor and Director
NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Dinner Speaker
Alex Singer
Film Director
Guests
Jennifer Cho
Senior Product Development Manager
Publications Division
American Chemical Society
Kenneth E. Harwell
Senior Science and Technology Advisor to the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Laboratories and Basic Sciences
Department of Defense
Anne Matsuura
Program Manager
Electronics and Physics Directorate
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Carey Schwartz
Program Manager
Defense Sciences Office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Judith Singer
Guest of Alex Singer
Doug Stetson
Deputy Director
Advanced Planning and Integration Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Sarah Tegen
Editorial Associate
The National Academies
National Academy of Engineering
W. Dale Compton
Home Secretary
Lance A. Davis
Executive Officer
Donna Dean
Senior Scholar-in-Residence
Janet Hunziker
Program Officer
Jenny Hardesty
Senior Project Assistant