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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970660503321

Titolo

Fifth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering / / National Academy of Engineering

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2000

ISBN

9780309183635

0309183634

9780309516426

0309516420

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Disciplina

620

Soggetti

Engineering - Research - United States

Engineering - Technological innovations - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Magnetic Recording: Winner of the Data Storage Technology Race -- Evolution of Large Multiprocessor Servers -- Network Survivability and Information Warfare -- Moving up the Information Food Chain: The Future of Web Search -- Genes, Chips, and the Human Genome -- Colloidal-Scale Engineering -- Design of Biomimetic Polymeric Materials -- Deregulating the Electric Grid: Engineering Challenges -- The Future of Nuclear Energy -- Renewable Energy Technologies: Today and Tomorrow -- Issues Associated with the Volume Manufacturing of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers -- Optical Applications of Microelectromechanical Systems -- Career Flexibility in Rapidly Changing Times -- Break-out Session Outcomes -- Contributors -- Program -- Participants.

Sommario/riassunto

Frontiers of Engineering is the fifth book highlighting the presentations of the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) annual symposium series, Frontiers of Engineering. The 1999 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering was held October 14-16, at the Academies' Beckman Center in Irvine, California. The 101 emerging engineering leaders (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and federal laboratories who attended the meeting heard presentations and discussed cutting-edge



research and technical work in four engineering fields. Symposium speakers were asked to prepare extended summaries of their presentations, and it is those papers that are contained here. The intent of this book, and of the four that precede it in the series, is to describe the content and underpinning philosophy of this unique meeting and to highlight some of the exciting developments in engineering today.