Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2002 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (2003)
Chapter: Appendix: Program
Program
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
Eighth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering September 19–21, 2002
CHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR ENGINEERING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Organizers: Pablo Debenedetti and Brigette Rosendall
Fuel Cells That Run on Common Fuels
John M. Vohs, University of Pennsylvania
Dimension-Dependent Properties of Macromolecules in Nanoscopic Structures
Juan J. de Pablo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Role of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Process Industries
David Lee Davidson, Solutia, Inc.
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TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN BEINGS
Organizers: Ann Bisantz and Rick Kjeldsen
The Human Factor
Kim J. Vicente, University of Toronto
Human Factors Applications in Surface Transportation
Thomas A. Dingus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (talk given by Vicki Neale)
Implications of Human Factors Engineering for Novel Software User-Interface Design
Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft
Frontiers of Human-Computer Interaction: Direct-Brain Interfaces
Melody M. Moore, Georgia State University
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DINNER SPEAKER
The Science, Technology, and Business of Digital Communication
Andrew J. Viterbi, President, Viterbi Group, LLC
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THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Organizers: Kathryn McCarthy and Per Peterson
Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies
John F. Kotek, Argonne National Laboratory-West
Licensing and Building New Nuclear Infrastructure
Peter S. Hastings, Duke Energy
Sustainable Energy from Nuclear Fission Power
Marvin L. Adams, Texas A&M University
Stretching the Boundaries of Nuclear Technology
James P. Blanchard, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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ENGINEERING CHALLENGES FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Organizers: Ike Chuang and Hideo Mabuchi
Quantum Cryptography
Steven J. van Enk, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Ion-Trap Quantum Computation
Dietrich Leibfried, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Scalable Quantum Computing Using Solid-State Devices
Bruce Kane, University of Maryland
