New Drug Combinations With COVID-19 Therapeutic Potential Thu, May 19, 2022 FOE alum Jingyue Ju at Columbia University is working on an initiative with a consortium of pharmacologists, virologists, medicinal chemists, and structural biologists to engineer new therapeutics with enhanced potency and safety profiles for COVID-19. Read More
New Technology Could Make Biopsies a Thing of the Past Mon, May 16, 2022 FOE alum Elizabeth Hillman at Columbia University is engineering a technology that could guide surgeons to navigate tumors and their boundaries without needing to remove tissues and wait for pathology results. Read More
Five FOE Alumni Elected to National Academy of Sciences Thu, May 12, 2022 The National Academy of Sciences has announced its new members, including five FOE alumni. Belcher, Angela M.; James Mason Crafts Professor and head, department of biological engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Cui, Yi; professor of materials ... Read More
Cloud Hosting for S/4HANA Mon, May 09, 2022 IBM's Hillery Hunter (USFOE 2010) is engineering a process to help enterprise client bases move their estate in a modernized direction and move their estate to cloud and hybrid cloud environments with reliability, control over their environment, and security. Read More
AI Enables Strategic Hydropower Planning Across Amazon Basin Thu, May 05, 2022 Computer science engineer Carla Gomes (USFOE 2009) at Cornell worked with an disciplinary team from more than two dozen academic institutions and NGOs in the US, Europe, and South America to understand how to meet hydropower needs with the least amount of environmental damage. Read More
Surprising New Material for Energy Transfer Mon, May 02, 2022 FOE alum Alfred Crosby at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has engineered a new programmable rubber-like solid substance that can absorb and release large quantities of energy and holds great promise for a wide array of applications, from robots to protective equipment. Read More
Testing Nanoparticle Payload Delivery Thu, April 28, 2022 Jordan Green (USFOE 2012) at Johns Hopkins University has engineered a test for nanoparticle payload delivery that could be key to the development of next-generation medicines and therapies. Read More
Decoy Particles Trick Coronavirus As They Evolve Fri, April 22, 2022 FOE alum Neha Kamat at Northwestern is engineering a new potential COVID-19 treatment that is actually a cleverly disguised trickster, which attracts viruses and binds them, rendering them inactive. Read More
NAE Receives $10 Million Endowment from The Grainger Foundation Thu, April 21, 2022 The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is pleased to announce a $10 million endowment from The Grainger Foundation to support the Frontiers of Engineering program. This generous commitment from The Grainger Foundation builds on more than a decade of philanthropic support to Frontiers of ... Read More
Pioneering a Universal Decoder Mon, April 18, 2022 NAE member Muriel Medard (USFOE 2007) at MIT has engineered a silicon chip that decodes error-correcting codes, which can protect data sent over the Internet—including email, text messages, and images—from being damaged by electromagnetic interference. Read More
Connecting Ukrainian Researchers with Resources Thu, April 07, 2022 Jeff Karp (USFOE 2007), who leads a bioengineering lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has invited Ukrainian students to work at his lab and encourages others to do the same. Read More
Saving Heat Energy Mon, April 04, 2022 Shashank Priya (GAFOE 2008) at Penn State is engineering a new flexible thermoelectric generator that wraps around hot surfaces to convert waste heat into electricity more efficiently. Read More
Helping Her Ukrainian Homeland Thu, March 31, 2022 Iryna Zenyuk (USFOE 2021) at the University of California, Irvine has launched a program to bring Ukrainian university faculty to UCI and, potentially, other University of California campuses. Read More
A Better Refrigerant Mon, March 21, 2022 Miki Oljaca (USFOE 2003) at Koura is engineering a new, lower global-warming-potential refrigerant as an alternative to R-134a for automotive aftermarket air-conditioning applications. Read More
NAE Awards the 2022 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research Tue, March 15, 2022 Two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants of $30,000 have been awarded to attendees of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium. Jamel Ali (Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of ... Read More
Women’s Futures Month Mon, March 14, 2022 FOE alumni Amy Elliott at Oak Ridge National Lab and Ritu Raman at MIT are among a diverse coalition of contemporary women STEM innovators being depicted by statue for the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building’s FUTURES exhibition as part of Women's History Month. Read More
Unlocking 5G's Potential Thu, March 10, 2022 FOE alumni John Smee and Jilei Hou at Qualcomm are engineering seamless connectivity and intelligent processing by combining wireless domain knowledge with modern machine-learning practices to create new, advanced wireless communication and computing power. Read More
Innovative Pop-up Sensors for Heart Cells Mon, March 07, 2022 Sheng Xu (USFOE 2019) at the University of California, San Diego is engineering a powerful new tool that monitors the electrical activity inside heart cells using tiny “pop-up” sensors that poke into cells without damaging them and could lead to insights into various heart disorders and diseases. Read More
Building a Better Cookstove Thu, March 03, 2022 MIT's Sili Deng (USFOE 2021) is engineering a new cookstove design tool for the three billion people who burn solid fuels to cook and heat their homes. These stoves often emit soot and carbon monoxide, leading to millions of deaths each year and worsening the world’s greenhouse gas emission problem. Read More
World’s First Carbon-negative Green Hydrogen Project Mon, February 28, 2022 FOE alum Joshuah Stolaroff at Mote and Lawrence Livermore National Lab is engineering a process to convert wood waste into H2 by utilizing biomass that has absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then capturing and storing it. Read More