Frontiers of Engineering

Frontiers of Engineering

Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2001 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309084987
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309500739
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309169080
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2002
  • Month: September
  • Pages: 139
  • DDC: 690
  • Language: English

This collection includes summaries of presentations given at the NAE Symposium in March 2001. Topics include flight at the leading edge, civil systems, wireless communications, and technology and the human body

  • Front Matter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Active Flow Control: Enabling Next-Generation Jet Propulsion Aerodynamics
  • Miniature Spy Planes: The Next Generation of Flying Robots
  • Toward Micromechanical Flyers
  • Dynamic Planning and Control of Civil Infrastructure Systems
  • Improbable Is Not Impossible: Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  • Interdependencies in Civil Infrastructure Systems
  • Design Challenges for Future Wireless Systems
  • Next-Generation Mobile Wireless Internet Technology
  • Service Architectures for Emerging Wireless Networks
  • Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS): The Web Gets Physical
  • Applying Simulation Technology to the Life Sciences
  • Reengineering the Paralyzed Nervous System
  • Merging Living Cells and Microsystems Engineering
  • Technology Innovation in the New Era
  • Contributors
  • Program
  • Participants

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