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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787356103321

Titolo

Frontiers of engineering : reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2014 symposium / / National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-309-31464-X

0-309-31462-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Disciplina

620

Soggetti

Engineering - Research

Engineering - Technological innovations

Bioengineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""CO-ROBOTICS""; ""Co-Robotics--Brian Gerkey and Carmel Majidi""; ""Progress in Self-Driving Vehicles--Chris Urmson""; ""Safe, Cheap, and Smart: Collaborative Robots in Manufacturing--Matthew Williamson""; ""Personalized Medical Robots--Allison M. Okamura and Tania K. Morimoto""; ""BATTERY ANXIETY""; ""Battery Anxiety--Jeff Sakamoto and Daniel Steingart""; ""Electrochemical Prozac: Relieving Battery Anxiety through Life and Safety Research--Alvaro Masias""

""Challenges in Batteries for Electric Vehicles--Sarah Stewart, Jake Christensen, Nalin Chatururvedi, and Aleksandar Kojic""""Lithium Ion Batteries and Their Manufacturing Challenges--Claus Daniel""; ""TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE HEART""; ""Technologies for the Heart--Karen Christman and Ashley Peterson""; ""The History of Heart Valves: An Industry Perspective--Erin M. Spinner""; ""Engineering Heart Valve Treatment Strategies for Tomorrow--W. David Merryman""; ""Biomaterials for Treating Myocardial Infarctions--Jason A. Burdick and Shauna M. Dorsey""



""Regulatory Perspectives on Technologies for the Heart--Tina M. Morrison""""SHALE GAS AND OIL""; ""Shale Gas and Oil--Billy B. Bardin and Christopher W. Jones""; ""Shale Natural Resources--Stephen Ingram""; ""Microbial Ecology of Hydraulic Fracturing--Kelvin B. Gregory""; ""The Shale Gas Revolution: A Methane-to-Organic Chemicals Renaissance?--Eric E. Stangland""; ""APPENDIXES""; ""Contributors""; ""Program""; ""Participants""