NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
2012 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 13-15, 2012
Chair: Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, Boulder
CLIMATE ENGINEERING
Organizers: David Sholl and Armin Sorooshian
Overview of Climate Engineering
Eli Kintisch
Removing Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere:
Possibilities and Challenges of Air Capture
Christopher Jones
Offsetting Climate Change by Engineering Air Pollution to Brighten Clouds
Lynn Russell
Climate Engineering with Stratospheric Aerosols and
Associated Engineering Parameters
Ben Kravitz
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VEHICLE ELECTRIFICATION
Organizers: Michael W. Degner and Sanjeev Naik
Keeping Up with Increasing Demands for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Jeff Sakamoto
Stronger, Lighter, and More Energy Efficient:
Challenges of Magnetic Material Development for Vehicle Electrification
Matthew Willard
Analysis of Projected Impact of Plug-in Electric Vehicles
on the Distribution Grid
Arindam Maitra
The Car and the Cloud: Automotive Architectures for 2020
Rahul Mangharam
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SERIOUS GAMES
Organizers: Li-Te Cheng and Ben Sawyer
Overview of Serious Games
Kurt Squire
Moving Innovative Game Technology from the Lab to the Living Room
Richard Marks
How Serious Science Is Being Achieved with Serious Games
Zoran Popovic
Playing to Win: Serious Games for Business
Phaedra Boinodiris
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ENGINEERING MATERIALS FOR THE BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE
Organizers: Karen Burg and Ali Khademhosseini
Engineering Tissues-to-Tissue Interfaces and the Formation of Complex Tissues
Helen Lu
Identification and Modulation of Biophysical Signals That
Control Stem Cell Function and Fate
David Schaffer
Engineering 3D Tissue Systems to Better Mimic Human Biology
Matthew Gevaert
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DINNER SPEECH
The Reinvention of the Automobile for 21st Century Sustainability
Alan I. Taub