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Frontiers of engineering : reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2016 symposium
- Title
- Frontiers of engineering : reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2016 symposium / National Academy of Engineering.
- Author
- US Frontiers of Engineering (Symposium) (2016 : Irvine, Calif.), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
- Publication
- Washington, DC : the National Academies Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Additional Authors
- National Academy of Engineering, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
- Description
- xii, 131 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This volume presents papers on the topics covered at the National Academy of Engineering's 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Every year the symposium brings together 100 outstanding young leaders in engineering to share their cutting-edge research and innovations in selected areas. The 2016 symposium was held September 19-21 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California. The intent of this book is to convey the excitement of this unique meeting and to highlight innovative developments in engineering research and technical work"--Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Pixels at scale: high-performance computer graphics and vision -- Computational near-eye displays: engineering the interface to the digital world -- Frontiers in virtual reality headsets -- First-person computational vision -- A quintillion live pixels: the challenge of continuously interpreting and organizing the world's visual information -- Extreme engineering: extreme autonomy in space and air, on land, and under water -- Autonomous precision landing of space rockets -- Autonomy under water: ocean sampling by autonomous underwater vehicles -- Water desalination and purification -- Water desalination: history, advances, and challenges -- Scalable manufacturing of layer-by-layer membranes for water purification -- New materials for emerging desalination technologies -- High-recover desalination and water treatment -- Technologies for understanding and treating cancer -- How cancer cells go awry: the role of mechanobiology in cancer research -- Engineered proteins for visualizing and treating cancer -- Engineering immunotherapy -- Appendixes -- Contributors -- Participants -- Program.
- ISBN
- 9780309450362
- 0309450365
- OCLC
- ocn974912381
- 974912381
- SCSB-5885369
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries