Tenth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering / / National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 p.)
• Disciplina: 620
• Soggetto topico: Engineering - Research - United States; Engineering - Technological innovations - United States
• Note generali: "Reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2004 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- ENGINEERING FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS -- Introduction--Mary Kae Lockwood and John W. Weatherly -- Cool Robots: Scalable Mobile Robots for Instrument Network Deployment in Polar Climates--Laura R. Ray, Alexander D. Price, Alexander Streeter, Daniel Denton, and James H. Lever -- The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Extreme Engineering Projects--Jon Berkoe -- The Challenges of Landing on Mars--Tommaso P. Rivellini -- Accessing the Lunar Poles for Human Exploration Missions--B. Kent Joosten -- DESIGNER MATERIALS -- Introduction--Kristi S. Anseth and Diann E. Brei -- Thin-Film Active Materials--Greg P. Carman -- The Future of Engineering Materials: Multifunction for Performance-Tailored Structures--Leslie A. Momoda -- Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering--Jennifer L. West -- MULTISCALE MODELING -- Introduction--Grant S. Heffelfinger and Dimitrios Maroudas -- Equation-Free Modeling for Complex Systems--Ioannis G. Kevrekidis -- Modeling the Stuff of the Material World: Do We Need All of the Atoms?--Rob Phillips -- Balancing Scales in Biological Models--Adam Paul Arkin -- Small-Scale Processes and Large-Scale Simulations of the Climate System--Bjorn B. Stevens -- ENGINEERING AND ENTERTAINMENT -- Introduction--Chris Kyriakakis -- Capturing and Simulating Physically Accurate Illumination in Computer Graphics--Paul Debevec -- Spatial Audio Reproduction: Toward Individualized Binaural Sound--William G. Gardner -- Designing Socially Intelligent Robots--Cynthia Breazeal -- APPENDIXES -- Contributors -- Program -- Participants.
• Altri titoli varianti: Frontiers of engineering
• Titolo autorizzato: Tenth annual symposium on frontiers of engineering
• ISBN: 0-309-16529-6; 1-280-20865-1; 9786610208654; 0-309-54784-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814573703321
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