September 21, 1995 9:00 AM—September 23, 1995 12:00 PM
Irvine
, California
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
Irvine, California
FIRST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING
Chair: Dr. Robert Brown, Department Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program
Advances in Biotechnology
Organizers: Stephen Drew and Jeffrey Hubbell
Advances in Bioprocessing for New Molecules in Medicine
Directed Evolution: Creating Biocatalysts for the Future
Frances H. Arnold, California Institute of Technology
Engineering of Large Cell Cultures
John G. Aunins, Merck & Co., Inc.
Advances in Materials and Optics for Medicine
Engineering Self-assembling Systems for Delivery of Biological Agents
Alan S. Rudolph, Naval Research Laboratory
Optical Spectroscopy for Diagnosis of Disease in Tissue
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, University of Texas at Austin
Design and Manufacturing of Commercial Products
Organizers: Charlotte Chen-Tsai, P. Somasundaran, and John Wall
Design of Materials, Products, and Processing from Nano to Macro Scales
Design Process & New Design Tools
David Gossard, New Technologies, Inc.
Designer Materials Through Nano Processing
Jackie Ying, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Intelligent Design of Casting Operations
Jamal Righi, Alcoa Technical Center
Large-Scale Systems Integration
Patrick Shanahan, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
Engineering in the Urban Environment
Organizers: Joseph Laia and Stewart Taylor
Innovative Treatment of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Wastes
Biological Treatment of Hazardous Waste
Joseph Hughes, Rice University
Novel Chemical Processing of Hazardous Waste
Christopher Nagel, Molten Metal Technology
Discussant: Mark Zappi, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Urban Air Quality and the Automobile
Mobile Source Emissions and Air Quality
David L. Hofeldt, University of Minnesota
The Hybrid Electric Vehicle
David Brigham, Ford Motor Company
Information Technology
Organizers: Shira Broschat, Connie Chang-Hasnain, and William Kaiser
Internetworking
Distributed Computing
David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
Communication and Information on the Internet
Anita Borg, Digital Equipment Corporation
Discussant: Anoop Gupta, Stanford University
Ultrahigh Bandwidth Communications
Next-Generation Subscriber Access Networks
Ted Darcie, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Communications
Kam Lau, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Kerry Vahala, California Institute of Technology
Dinner Speech
A Neglected Reponsibility of Engineers
William J. Spencer, President Chief Executive Officer, SEMATECH