2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Program

Please note that changes to the schedule and/or program may occur.  

Wednesday, September 9

7:30-9:30 p.m.

Registration/Reception at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach (Garden)

Thursday, September 10

From 7:00 a.m.

Buses depart hotel for Beckman Center. Breakfast at the Beckman Center
(Buses depart in 15 minute increments. Last bus departs at 7:45 a.m.)

8:30

Welcome – Lance Davis, Executive Officer, National Academy of Engineering

Opening Remarks Andrew M. Weiner, Chair, Organizing Committee

8:45-10:30

Engineering Tools for Scientific Discovery
Session organizers: J. Christopher Love, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech, and Louise Hamlin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Digital Holographic Microscopy for 3D Imaging of Complex Fluids and Biological Systems
Vinothan Manoharan, Harvard University

Engineering Tools for Studying Marine Mammals
Figure 1
Figure 2
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Sean Wiggins, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The Kepler Mission: A Search for Terrestrial Planets
Riley Duren, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

10:30-11:15

Break

11:15-12:30

Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society
Carla Gomes, Cornell University

Panel Discussion

12:30-1:45

Lunch

1:45-3:15

Get-acquainted sessions

3:15-3:45

Break

3:45-5:15

Nano/Micro Photonics And New Applications
Session Organizers: Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University, and Michal Lipson, Cornell University 

Optical Antennas for Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions
Lukas Novotny, University of Rochester

Nano-Opto Mechanics: Utilizing Light Forces Within Guided-Wave Nanostructures
Oskar Painter, California Institute of Technology

5:15

Reception

6:00

Dinner

7:00

Dinner Speech: Developing GPS: Conception, Applications, Surprises, and the Future
Dr. Bradford W. Parkinson, Edward C. Wells Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Emeritus, Stanford University 

8:00 (approx.)

Buses return to hotel

Friday, September 11

From 7:00 a.m.

Buses depart hotel for Beckman Center. Breakfast at the Beckman Center.
(Buses depart in 15 minute increments. Last bus departs at 7:45 a.m.)

8:30

Nano/Micro Photonics And New Applications (cont’d)

Engineering Light: Intersubband Optoelectronics
Claire Gmachl

Light-Emitting Diode Technology for Solid State Lighting
Figures
Michael Krames, Soraa, Inc.

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-10:45

Where Are the Emerging Frontiers of Research and Innovation?
Sohi Rastegar, National Science Foundation

10:45-12:30

Engineering the Healthcare Delivery System
Organizers: Stephanie Guerlain, University of Virginia, and Eva K. Lee,
Georgia Institute of Technology

Why Doesn’t Health IT Work?
Elmer Bernstam, University of Texas at Houston

Calibration in Computer Models for Medical Diagnosis and Prognostication
Lucila Ohno-Machado, University of California, San Diego

Medical Informatics for Detection of Adverse Events
Genevieve Melton-Meaux, University of Minnesota

12:30-1:45

Lunch

1:45-3:00

Managing and Coordinating Health Care: Creating Collaborative, Proactive Systems
David Dorr, Oregon Health and Science University

Panel Discussion

3:00-3:15

Break

3:15-4:30

Salons

4:30

Buses return to hotel

6:00

Dinner at the Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach (Golf Course)

Saturday, September 12

From 7:00 a.m.

Buses depart hotel for Beckman Center. Breakfast at the Beckman Center.
(Buses depart in 15 minute increments. Last bus departs at 7:45 a.m.)

8:30-10:10

Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure
Organizers: Seth Guikema, John Hopkins University, and Patrick O’Mara, STV 

America’s Infrastructure Report Card: Causes, Costs, and Solutions
Kristina Swallow, AVP Consulting, Inc.

Infrastructure Resilience to Disasters
Stephanie Chang, University of British Columbia

Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of Infrastructure Systems
Arpad Horvath, University of California, Berkeley

10:10-10:55

Break

10:55-11:30

Panel Discussion

11:30

11:40



12:30

 

Closing Remarks

Bus departs for SNA Airport

Lunch

Bus departs for SNA Airport