2011 Frontiers of Engineering Symposia (U.S., Japan-America, and European Union-U.S.)

该奖项部分支持由美国国家工程院组织的一系列三个国家和国际工程前沿（FOE）专题讨论会：日美FOE（2011年6月6日至8日，日本筑波），美国FOE（2011年9月19日至21日，加州山景城）和欧盟-美国。（2011年11月3-5日，加州欧文）。每次专题讨论会着重于四个主题领域。2011年的主题包括增材制造、工程可持续建筑、神经义肢、语义处理、机器人、智能电网、仿生材料、海量数据管理、未来城市/可持续城市、先进制造、生物学和计算。每届研讨会都有60到100名杰出的、处于职业生涯初期的科学家和工程师参加。会议由演讲者介绍前沿研究、新兴技术以及跨科学和工程领域合作的机会。该研讨会促进了跨学科和国际合作，并作为美国许多新兴研究和创新前沿的参考点。美国FOE研讨会的报告将发布在NAE FOE网站上。

This award partially supports a series of three national and international Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposia organized by the National Academy of Engineering: Japan-America FOE (June 6-8, 2011, in Tsukuba, Japan), U.S. FOE (September 19-21, 2011, in Mountain View, CA), and European Union-U.S. FOE (November 3-5, 2011, in Irvine, CA). Each symposium focuses on four topical areas. Topics for 2011 include additive manufacturing, engineering sustainable buildings, neuroprosthetics, semantic processing, robotics, smart grid, bio-inspired materials, massive data management, future cities/sustainable cities, advanced manufacturing, and biology and computing.Between sixty and one hundred outstanding, early-career scientists and engineers participate in each symposium. Sessions consist of presentations by speakers on leading edge research, emerging technologies, and opportunities for collaboration across science and engineering fields. The symposia foster interdisciplinary and international collaborations and serve as a reference point for many of the emerging frontiers in research and innovation in the U.S. Presentations from the U.S. FOE seminar will be posted on the NAE FOE web site.