2006 U.S. FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM
September 21-23, 2006
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, Michigan

Chair: Julia M. Phillips, Director, Physical, Chemical, and Nano Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories


Sponsors
Participant List
Presentations


The Rise of Intelligent Software Systems and Machines
Organizers: Brian Blake, Georgetown University, and David Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc.

Commercializing Auditory Neuroscience
Lloyd Watts, Audience, Inc.

Creating Intelligent Agents in Games
Risto Mikkulainen, University of Texas, Austin

Co-evolution of the Computer and Social Science
Robert Axtell, Brookings Institution and Santa Fe Institute

Using Computational Cognitive Models to Build Better Human-Robot Interaction
Alan Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory


Nano/Bio Interface
Organizers: Tejal Desai, University of California, San Francisco, and Hiroshi Matsui, City University of New York, Hunter College

Biological and Biomimetic Polypeptide Materials
Timothy Deming, University of California, Los Angeles

Biomimetics and the Application to Devices
Morley Stone, Air Force Research Laboratory

Optical Imaging for In Vivo Assessment of Tissue Pathology
Rebekah Anna Drezek, Rice University

Commercialization and Future Developments in Bionanotechnology
Marcel Bruchez, Quantum Dot/Invitrogen Corp.


Engineering Personal Mobility for the 21st Century
Organizers: Apoorv Agarwal, Ford Motor Company, and Bill Schneider, University of Notre Dame

Long-Term trends in Global Passenger Mobility
Andreas Schafer, University of Cambridge

Energy and Environmental Impacts of Personal Mobility
Matthew Barth, University of California, Riverside

New Mobility: The Next Generation of Sustainable Urban Transportation
Sue Zielinski, University of Michigan

Advancing the State of Hybrid Technology
Andreas Schell, DaimlerChrysler


Supply Chain Management
Organizers: Jennifer Ryan, University of Notre Dame, and Julie Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology

Supply Chain Applications of Fast Implosion
Brenda Dietrich, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Factory to Foxhole: Improving the Army's Supply Chain
Mark Y.D. Wang, RAND Corporation

Supply Chain Management under the Threat of Disruptions
Lawrence Snyder, Lehigh University

Engineering-Bases Methods for Affordable Housing and Sustainable Community Development
Michael P. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University