U.S. Germany Workshop: German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

该奖项支持美国国家科学院的Janet Hunziker和来自美国各大学的初级和高级研究人员参加一个关于几个当前工程主题的国际研讨会。涵盖的四个主要领域是：1)医疗设备技术；2)城市工程与规划；3)智能交通系统；4)环境与可再生能源。演讲者将被要求解决诸如其领域的前沿是什么等问题；哪些实验和原型正在进行中；有哪些新的工具和仪器可用；进展的主要障碍是什么；以及这项工作的理论、商业、社会和长期意义是什么。受邀者将是为推进工程前沿做出公认贡献的有成就的工程师，其中一半来自工业界，一半来自学术界。研讨会的主要好处将是促进来自不同领域和部门的美国和德国最优秀的初级工程师之间的新互动。今天最令人兴奋和强大的工程发展发生在学科的交叉。通过为跨领域的研究见解和技术分享创造机会，本次研讨会将促进知识和应用的飞跃，否则可能需要更长的时间才能实现。

0114861HunzikerThis award supports Janet Hunziker of the National Academy of Sciences and junior and senior researchers from various U.S. universities to participate in an international workshop on several current engineering topics. The four primary areas to be covered are 1) medical device technology, 2) urban engineering and planning, 3) intelligent transportation systems, and 4) environment and renewable energy. Speakers will be asked to address issues such as what the frontiers in their field are; what experiments and prototypes are in progress; what new tools and instruments are available; what the major impediments to progress are; and what the theoretical, commercial, societal, and long-term significance of the work is. Invitees will be accomplished engineers who have made recognized contributions to advancing the frontiers of engineering, with half those present from industry and half from academia. The primary benefit of the workshop will be to foster new interactions between the best junior U.S. and German engineers from different fields and sectors. Today's most exciting and powerful engineering developments are occurring at the intersection of disciplines. By creating the opportunity for sharing of research insights and techniques across a range of fields, this workshop will facilitate leaps in knowledge and applications that might otherwise take much longer to achieve.