Frontiers of Engineering : reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2005 symposium / National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

National Academy of Engineering.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (11th : 2005 : Niskayuna, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering--Research--Congresses.

Engineering.

Engineering--Technological innovations--Congresses.

Identification--Equipment and supplies--Congresses.

Identification.

Systems engineering--Congresses.

Systems engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume includes 16 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2005. USFOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2005 symposium covered four topic areas: ID and verification technologies, engineering for developing communities, engineering complex systems, and energy resources for the future. A paper by dinner speaker Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is also included. The papers describe leading-edge research on face and human activity recognition, challenges in implementing appropriate technology projects in developing countries, complex networks, engineering bacteria for drug production, organic-based solar cells, and current status and future challenges in fuel cells, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the eleventh volume in the USFOE series.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Preface

Contents

ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIESTECHNOLOGIESECHNOLOGIES

Introduction

Stephen S. Intille and Visvanathan Ramesh

Ongoing Challenges in Face Recognition

Peter N. Belhumeur

Designing Biometric Evaluations and Challenge Problems for Face-Recognition Systems

P. Jonathon Phillips

Large-Scale Activity-Recognition Systems

Matthai Philipose

ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES

Garrick E. Louis and Amy Smith

Challenges in the Implementation of Appropriate Technology Projects: The Case of the DISACARE Wheelchair Center in Zambia

Kurt L. Kornbluth and Philip Osafo-Kwaako

Engineering Inputs to the CDC Safe Water System Program

Daniele S. Lantagne

Sustainable Development Through the Principles of Green Engineering

Julie Beth Zimmerman

Science and Engineering Research That Values the Planet

Daniel M. Kammen and Arne Jacobson

ENGINEERING COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Luis A Nunes Amaral and Kelvin H. Lee

Complex Networks: Ubiquity, Importance, and Implications

Alessandro Vespignani

The Promise of Synthetic Biology

Jay D. Keasling

Population Dynamics of Human Language: A Complex System

Natalia L. Komarova

Agent-Based Modeling as a Decision-Making Tool

Zoltán Toroczkai and Stephen Eubank

ENERGY RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE

Allan J. Connolly and John M. Vohs

Future Energy

John K. Reinker

Organic Semiconductors for Low-Cost Solar Cells

Michael D. McGehee and Chatzun Goh

Research and Development at the U.S. Department of Energy on Hydrogen Production and Storage

Sunita Satyapal

Fuel Cells: Current Status and Future Challenges

Stuart B. Adler

DINNER SPEECH

Engineering for a New World

Shirley Ann Jackson

APPENDIXES

Contributors

Program

Participants.

Notes:

"On September 22-24, 2005, NAE held its eleventh U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium at GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610349357

9780309180269

0309180260

9781280349355

1280349352

9780309656979

0309656974

OCLC:

64684482