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

9909802Hunzier该奖项支持美国年轻工程师参加将于2000年11月在日本名古屋举行的美日工程前沿研讨会。联合组织者是华盛顿特区国家工程学院的Janet Hunziker和日本东京工程学院的Hiroshi Sakurai。参与者将来自大学、行业和政府。会议将讨论四个工程领域：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。演讲者将集中发言前沿研究和创新。他们将被要求回答以下类型的问题：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？使用了哪些新工具和新仪器？这项工作的动机是什么？正在测量和查看的数据是什么？主要问题是什么？目前对进步的限制是什么？这项工作的理论意义、商业意义、社会意义和长远意义是什么？这次研讨会的主要成果是它将促进来自不同领域和行业的最优秀的美国和日本年轻工程师之间的互动。当今最令人兴奋和最强大的工程发展发生在学科的交叉点上。因此，无论与会者的国籍如何，通过创造机会分享一系列领域的研究见解和技术，这次研讨会促进了知识和应用的飞跃，否则将需要更长时间才能实现。其次，由于与会者来自不同的专业领域，会议将支持学术界、产业界、政府和其他研究机构的研究人员更快地进行知识转移。最后，信息技术的进步、史无前例的政治合作和国家经济的一体化创造了“全球化”的现象，这是正确的。与日本工程领域专家交换想法和数据将使美国与会者能够推进他们自己的工作，并将为未来的合作项目奠定基础。预计会议信息的传播将通过国家学院出版社发布。

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.