U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

该奖项支持年轻的美国工程师参加将于2000年11月在日本名古屋举行的关于工程前沿的美日研讨会。联合组织者是华盛顿国家工程院的Janet Hunziker和东京日本工程院的Hiroshi Sakurai。与会者将来自大学、工业界和政府。会议将涉及的四个工程领域是：1)陶瓷；2)生物工程，部分涉及微生物反应器；3)制造业，重点是机器人、质量控制和/或微加工/纳米加工；4)土木工程，重点是减灾和模拟技术。演讲者将集中讨论前沿研究和创新。他们将被要求回答以下问题：他们所在领域的前沿是什么？哪些实验、原型和设计研究已经完成或正在进行中？正在使用哪些新工具和仪器？工作的激励因素是什么？被测量和看到的数据是什么？主要问题是什么？目前的发展限制是什么？这项工作的理论、商业、社会和长期意义是什么？本次研讨会的主要成果是促进来自不同领域和部门的美国和日本最优秀的年轻工程师之间的互动。今天最令人兴奋和强大的工程发展发生在学科的交叉点。因此，无论与会者的国籍如何，通过创造跨领域分享研究见解和技术的机会，本次研讨会促进了知识和应用的飞跃，否则将需要更长的时间才能实现。其次，由于与会者来自不同的专业领域，会议将支持学术界、工业界、政府和其他研究机构的研究人员之间更快的知识转移。最后，在信息技术的进步、前所未有的政治合作和国民经济一体化创造了“全球化”现象的时代，这是正确的。与工程领域的日本专家交流想法和数据将使美国参与者能够推进自己的工作，并为未来的合作项目奠定基础。预计会议的资料将通过国家科学院出版社出版。

9909802HunzikerThis award supports the participation of young American engineers in a U.S.-Japan seminar on the frontiers of engineering, to be held in Nagoya, Japan, in November 2000. The co-organizers are Janet Hunziker of the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C. and Hiroshi Sakurai of the Engineering Academy of Japan in Tokyo, Japan. Participants will be from universities, industry, and government. The four engineering areas that will be covered at the meeting are: 1) ceramics; 2) bioengineering, with some coverage of microbioreactors; 3) manufacturing, with emphasis on robotics, quality control, and/or micromachining/nanoprocessing; and 4) civil engineering with an emphasis on disaster mitigation and simulation techniques. Speakers will focus their remarks on cutting-edge research and innovation. They will be asked to address questions of the following kind: What are the frontiers in their field? What experiments, prototypes, and design studies are completed or in progress? What new tools and instruments are being used? What are the motivating factors for the work? What is the data that is being measured and seen? What are the major problems? What are the current limitations on advances? What is the theoretical, commercial, societal, and long-term significance of the work? The primary outcome of this symposium is the interaction it will facilitate among the best young American and Japanese engineers from different fields and sectors. Today's most exciting and powerful engineering developments are occurring at the intersections of disciplines. Thus, regardless of the nationality of the attendees involved, by creating the opportunity for sharing of research insights and techniques across a range of fields, this symposium facilitates leaps in knowledge and applications that otherwise would take longer to achieve. Second, because the attendees come from different professional sectors, the meeting will support more rapid knowledge transfer among researchers in academia, industry, government, and other research institutions. Finally, it is right for these times when advances in information technology, unprecedented political collaboration, and the integration of national economies have created the phenomenon of "globalization." The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese experts in the engineering field will enable U.S. participants to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative projects. It is anticipated that dissemination of information from the meeting will be published thru the National Academy Press.