Frontiers of engineering : reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2012 symposium / / National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies

• Pubblicazione: Washington, District of Columbia : , : National Academies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (183 p.)
• Disciplina: 620
• Soggetto topico: Engineering - Research; Engineering - Technological innovations; Global warming; Electric vehicles; Bioengineering; Sustainable buildings - Design and construction
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""CLIMATE ENGINEERING""; ""Introduction--David S. Sholl and Armin Sorooshian""; ""Overview of Climate Engineering--Eli Kintisch""; ""Removing Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere: Possibilities and Challenges of Air Capture--Christopher W. Jones""; ""Offsetting Climate Change by Engineering Air Pollution to Brighten Clouds--Lynn M. Russell""; ""Climate Engineering with Stratospheric Aerosols and Associated Engineering Parameters--Ben Kravitz""; ""VEHICLE ELECTRIFICATION""; ""Introduction--Michael W. Degner and Sanjeev Naik"" ; ""Keeping Up with Increasing Demands for Electrochemical Energy Storage--Jeff Sakamoto""""Stronger, Lighter, and More Energy Efficient: Challenges of Magnetic Material Development for Vehicle Electrification--Matthew A. Willard""; ""Analysis of Projected Impact of Plug-in Electric Vehicles on the Distribution Grid--Arindam Maitra""; ""The Car and the Cloud: Automotive Architectures for 2020--Rahul Mangharam""; ""SERIOUS GAMES""; ""Introduction--Li-Te Cheng and Ben Sawyer""; ""Moving Innovative Game Technology from the Lab to the Living Room--Richard Marks"" ; ""Playing to Win: Serious Games for Business--Phaedra Boinodiris""""ENGINEERING MATERIALS FOR THE BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE""; ""Engineering Materials for the Biological Interface--Karen J. L. Burg and Ali Khademhosseini""; ""Engineering Tissue-to-Tissue Interfaces and the Formation of Complex Tissues--Helen H. Lu""; ""Identification and Modulation of Biophysical Signals That Control Stem Cell Function and Fate--David V. Schaffer""; ""Engineering 3D Tissue Systems to Better Mimic Human Biology--Matthew Gevaert""; ""APPENDIXES""; ""Contributors""; ""Program""; ""Participants""
• Titolo autorizzato: Frontiers of engineering
• ISBN: 0-309-31284-1; 0-309-31282-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820958703321
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