Frontiers of Engineering

Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2002 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering

Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309087322
eISBN Pdf: 9780309504317
eISBN Epub: 9780309168496
Place of publication: United States
Year of digital publication: 2003
Month: February
Pages: 151
DDC: 607
Language: English

Caption

This collection includes summaries of presentations given at the NAE Symposium in September 2002. Topics include chemical and molecular engineering in the 21st century, human factors engineering, the future of nuclear energy, and engineering challenges for quantum information technology.

Front Matter
Preface
Contents
Fuel Cells That Run on Common Fuels
Dimension-Dependent Properties of Macromolecules in Nanoscopic Structures
The Role of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Process Industries
The Human Factor
Human Factors Applications in Surface Transportation
Implications of Human Factors Engineering for Novel Software User-Interface Design
Frontiers of Human-Computer Interaction: Direct-Brain Interfaces
Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies
Licensing and Building New Nuclear Infrastructure
Quantum Cryptography
Ion-Trap Quantum Computation
Scalable Quantum Computing Using Solid-State Devices
The Science, Technology, and Business of Digital Communication
Contributors
Program
Participants