The practice of engineering is continually changing. Engineers today must be able not only to thrive in an environment of rapid technological change and globalization, but also to work on interdisciplinary teams. Cutting-edge research is being done at the intersections of engineering disciplines, and successful researchers and practitioners must be aware of developments and challenges in areas that may not be familiar to them.



At the U.S. Frontiers of Engineer Symposium, engineers have the opportunity to learn from their peers about pioneering work being done in many areas of engineering. Frontiers of Engineering 2011: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2011 Symposium highlights the papers presented at the event. This book covers four general topics from the 2011 symposium: additive manufacturing, semantic processing, engineering sustainable buildings, and neuro-prosthetics. The papers from these presentations provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities of these fields of inquiry, and communicate the excitement of discovery.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Introduction--Carolyn Seepersad and Michael Siemer
Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Technology Introduction and Business Implications--Brent Stucker
Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace: Examples and Research Outlook--Brett Lyons
Additive Manufacturing Is Changing Surgery--Andrew M. Christensen
The Shape of Things to Come: Frontiers in Additive Manufacturing--Hod Lipson
SEMANTIC PROCESSING
Introduction--Aleksandar Kuzmanovic and Amarnag Subramanya
Automatic Text Understanding of Content and Text Quality--Ani Nenkova
Advancing Natural Language Understanding with Collaboratively Generated Content--Evgeniy Gabrilovich
Large-Scale Visual Semantic Extraction--Samy Bengio
Searching for Statistical Diagrams--Shirley Zhe Chen, Michael J. Cafarella, and Eytan Adar
ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
Introduction--Annie Pearce and John Zhai
Challenges and Opportunities for Low-Carbon Buildings--John Ochsendorf
Expanding Design Spaces--John Haymaker
Opportunities and Challenges for Multiscale Modeling of Sustainable Buildings--Jelena Srebric
Accelerating Green Building Market Transformation with Information Technology--Christopher Pyke
NEUROPROSTHETICS
Introduction--Timothy Denison and Justin Williams
Retinal Prosthetic Systems for Treatment of Blindness--James D. Weiland and Mark S. Humayun
The Evolution of Brain-Computer Interfaces--Eric C. Leuthardt
Ultra Low-Power Biomedical and Bio-Inspired Systems--Rahul Sarpeshkar
APPENDIXES
Contributors
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Participants