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Conference Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (10th : 2004 : Irvine, Calif.)

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

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 151 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note "Reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2004 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents ""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""
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Subject Engineering -- Research -- United States -- Congresses.
Engineering -- Research.
United States.
Engineering -- Technological innovations -- United States -- Congresses.
Engineering -- Technological innovations.
Engineering.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author National Academy of Engineering.
Added Title 10th Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering
Cover Title Frontiers of engineering
Other Form: Print version: Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (10th : 2004 : Irvine, Calif.). Tenth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)57938502
ISBN 0309547849 (electronic book)
9780309547840 (electronic book)
0309095476
9780309095471