SECOND JAPAN-AMERICA FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM
Chairs:
Robert H. Wagoner, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
Hideaki Matsubara, Deputy Laboratory Director, Research and Development Laboratory, Japan Fine Ceramics Center
List of Participants
Sponsors
Program
Bioengineering
Organizers: Linda Griffith and Kazuhiro Sakurada
Molecular Engineering of Gene and Stem Cell Therapeutics
David Schaffer, University of California, Berkeley
Regenerative Medicine Using Pluripotent Adult Somatic Stem Cells
Kazuhiro Sakurada, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Tissue Engineering Using Micro-Fabricated Biomaterials
Yoshihiro Ito, Tokushima University
Ethical Issues in the Genetic Research
Lainie Friedman Ross, University of Chicago
Synthesis and Applications of Nanomaterials
Organizers: Itaru Kamiya and Jackie Ying
Nanochemical Engineering in Industry
Ken-ichi Yoshie, MC Research and Innovation Center Inc.
Using Nature's Tools to Make New Hybrid Materials
Angela M. Belcher, University of Texas, Austin
Designing Porous Structures by Colloidal Crystal Templating -- Materials for Photonics and Beyond
Andreas Stein, University of Minnesota
Molecular Architecture and Engineering in Nanotechnology
Shiyoshi Yokoyama, Communications Research Lab
Pervasive Computing
Organizers: Yasuhito Hayashi and Charles Peck
Mobile Multimedia Evolution "i-mode" to "FOMA"
Yutaka Ohto, NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
Personal Servers: Pushing the Limits of Personal Computing
Roy Want, Intel Corporation
Applications Research in Ubiquitous Computing
Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wearable Information Equipment and its Applications to Environmental Information Network
Hiroshi Hosaka, University of Tokyo
Sustainable Manufacturing
Organizers: Kazuhiro Aoyama and Philip Koenig
Part I: Sustaining Manufacturing Competitiveness in Developed Countries
Computer Integrated Manufacturing System for Shipbuilding
Yuichi Sasaki, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Rational Decisions Methods for Investing in Modern Manufacturing Technologies
Mark H. Spicknall, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Part II: Sustaining Environmental Quality in a Manufacturing Society
Design for Environment and Recycling
David W. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology
Eco-Design and Inverse Manufacturing
Hideki Kobayashi, Toshiba Corp.