The ability to understand and treat debilitating neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, and chronic pain is limited largely by the lack of materials and devices that can seamlessly interface with neurons and restore or bypass the malfunctioning neural ...

Robust bioelectronic interfaces present unlimited potentials in wearable health monitors, implantable devices, and human-machine interfaces. But conventional high-performance electronics, which are based on planar and rigid silicon wafers, are intrinsically incompatible with curvilinear and ...

There has been significant interest in increasing the share of renewable energy sources in the world energy landscape (Chu and Majumdar 2012). Associated technologies support the generation or capture of energy from carbon-neutral sources, storage so that the energy can be used when and where ...

The emerging field of “cognitive” manufacturing is characterized by capabilities and visions for moving beyond “smart” manufacturing toward systems that have the capacity to monitor and evaluate manufacturing performance and then propose process and operations improvements ...

Engineers across all practices, industries, and applications are dealing with increasing system complexity, pushing the limits of engineering and human ability to grasp the large and complex. Whether it’s designing an iPhone, a semiautonomous rover to land on Mars, or a modern, fast, and ...

The past 15 years have witnessed a remarkable increase in both the scale and scope of social and behavioral data available to researchers. Over the same period, and driven by the same explosion in data, the study of social phenomena has increasingly become the province of computer scientists, ...

Editor’s Note

The annual US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium brings together outstanding young engineers, ages 30 to 45, to share ideas and learn about cutting-edge research on a wide range of engineering topics. Approximately 100 of us gather for a few days each year and spend our ...