Date: July 11, 2005
Contacts: Janet Hunziker, NAE Program Officer
202-334-1571; e-mail <jhunziker@nae.edu>
Randy Atkins, NAE Sr. Program Officer for Media/Public Relations
202-334-1508; e-mail <atkins@nae.edu>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Inventive Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

WASHINGTON — Eighty-eight of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 11th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The three-day event will bring together engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing cutting-edge engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines. The participants — from industry, academia, and government — were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from 220 applicants.

“Significant advances in engineering are occurring where disciplines intersect,” said NAE President Wm. A. Wulf. “Frontiers of Engineering provides an opportunity for engineers to learn about techniques and challenges in areas other than their own. This new knowledge can spark insights and collaborations that might not have occurred otherwise.”

The symposium will be held Sept. 22–24 at GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, N.Y., and will explore aspects of ID and verification technologies, the engineering of complex systems, engineering for developing communities, and energy. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be a featured speaker. Jackson has served as chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and worked in the field of theoretical physics at both AT&T Bell Laboratories and Rutgers University.

The following engineers were selected as general participants:

Carina Maria Alles	DuPont
Adjo Amekudzi	Georgia Institute of Technology
Alyssa Apsel	Cornell University
Treena Arinzeh	New Jersey Institute of Technology
Patrick Barge	Cummins Inc./Fleetguard
Serge Belongie	University of California, San Diego
John Bettler	Commonwealth Edison
Sujata Bhatia	DuPont Central Research & Development
Tracy Camp	Colorado School of Mines
Kurt Casby	Medtronic Inc.
Sila Çetinkaya	Texas A&M University
Jason Chen	Alcoa Inc.
Trishul Chilimbi	Microsoft Research
Robert Crane	ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Scott Craver	Binghamton University
Mary Crawford	Sandia National Laboratories
Kristin Culler	Boeing Co.
Juan de Bedout	GE Global Research
Kristian Debus	Bechtel National Inc.
Michael Deem	Rice University
Marina Despotopoulou	Arkema Inc.
Ram Devanathan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Truc-Nam Dinh	University of California, Santa Barbara
David Doman	Air Force Research Laboratory
Rebekah Drezek	Rice University
Alexander Driskill-Smith	Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Marija Drndic	University of Pennsylvania
Richard Elander	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Bogdan Epureanu	University of Michigan
Ireena Erteza	Sandia National Laboratories
Silvia Ferrari	Duke University
Gary Fogel	Natural Selection Inc.
Russell Ford	CH2M Hill
Robert Franceschini	Science Applications International Corp.
Juan Gilbert	Auburn University
William Grieco	Rohm and Haas Co.
Arun Hampapur	IBM Corp.
Glenn Hart	Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC
William Hartt	Proctor & Gamble
Youssef Hashash	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Michael Helmbrecht	Iris AO Inc.
Mark Hersam	Northwestern University
Cynthia Hoover	Praxair Inc.
Scott Humphreys	RF Micro Devices Inc.
Christopher Jones	Georgia Institute of Technology
Maryam Khanbaghi	Corning Inc.
Erica Klampfl	Ford Motor Co.
Melissa Knothe Tate	Case Western Reserve University
David Kosson	Vanderbilt University
Ananth Krishnamurthy	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Vikram Kumar	Dimagi Inc.
Christine Lambert	Ford Motor Co.
Joseph Lemanski	Goodrich Corp.
Lih Lin	University of Washington
Hod Lipson	Cornell University
Jie Liu	Microsoft Research
Zhu Liu	AT&T Labs Research
Yoky Matsuoka	Carnegie Mellon University
Cary McConlogue	Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Scott Miller	GE Global Research
Anand Narasimhan	Voxiva Inc.
Michael Occhionero	Idaho National Laboratory
Marcia O'Malley	Rice University
Jonathan Owen	General Motors Research and Development Center
Janet Pan	Yale University
Pamela Patterson	HRL Laboratories LLC
Sameer Pendharkar	Texas Instruments Inc.
Tresa Pollock	University of Michigan
Vivek Prabhu	National Institute of Standards and Technology
George Rittenhouse	Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Rodrigo Salgado	Purdue University
Cyrus Shahabi	University of Southern California
Lonnie Shea	Northwestern University
Sandeep Shukla	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Stanislav Shvartsman	Princeton University
Dan Sievenpiper	HRL Laboratories LLC
Kiruba Sivasubramaniam	GE Global Research
Christina Smolke	California Institute of Technology
James Sowder	Northrop Grumman Information Technology
Abraham Stroock	Cornell University
Lester Su	Johns Hopkins University
Aaron Thode	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Thomas Truskett	University of Texas, Austin
Uday Turaga	ConocoPhillips Co.
Jeffrey Varner	Genencor International Inc.
Cliff Wang	U.S. Army Research Office
Min Wu	University of Maryland, College Park
Sophia Zamor	Kimberly-Clark Corp.

Speakers at this year’s event are:

Stuart Adler	University of Washington
Peter Belhumeur	Columbia University
Ken Fishkin	Intel Research
Paul Griffin	Identix
Daniel Kammen	University of California, Berkeley
Jay Keasling	University of California, Berkeley
Natalia Komarova	University of California, Irvine
Kurt Kornbluth	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniele Lantagne	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael McGehee	Stanford University
John Reinker	GE Global Research
Sunita Satyapal	U.S. Department of Energy
Zoltan Toroczkai	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alessandro Vespignani	Indiana University
Julie Zimmerman	University of Virginia

The organizers of the 2005 symposium are:

Pablo Debendetti (chair)	Princeton University
Luis A. Nunes Amaral	Northwestern University
Allan Connolly	GE Energy
Stephen Intille	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kelvin Lee	Cornell University
Garrick Louis	University of Virginia
Visvanathan Ramesh	Siemens Corporate Research Inc.
Amy Smith	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Vohs	University of Pennsylvania

The National Academy of Engineering's 2005 Frontiers of Engineering sponsors are General Electric Co., the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the U.S. Department of Defense (DDR&E–Research), DARPA, Microsoft Corp., and Cummins Inc., as well as individual donors.

The National Academy of Engineering is an independent, nonprofit institution that serves as an adviser to government and the public on issues in engineering and technology. Its members consist of the nation's premier engineers, who are elected by their peers for their distinguished achievements. Established in 1964, NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863.

To read more about Frontiers of Engineering, visit the NAE Web site at <http://www.nae.edu/frontiers>. The 2005 U.S. Frontiers meeting program is also available at the site.