Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the March 2002 NAE Symposium... (Repost)

This issue includes repots given at the NAE Symposium in September 2001, and March 2002. The reports covered four broad areas: leading edge aerodynamics technologies, civil systems, wireless communications, and technology and the human body. In the session called “Flight at the Leading Edge,” speakers discussed next-generation jet propulsion, miniature unmanned air vehicles (mini-UAVs), and artificial flying insects.

The 2001 symposium was originally scheduled for September 13–15, but was cancelled and rescheduled for March 1–3, 2002, because of the events of September 11.

Contents
FLIGHT AT THE LEADING EDGE: EXTREME AERODYNAMICS FROM THE MEGA TO THE MICRO
Active Flow Control: Enabling Next-Generation Jet Propulsion Aerodynamics
Miniature Spy Planes: The Next Generation of Flying Robots
Toward Micromechanical Flyers
CIVIL SYSTEMS
Dynamic Planning and Control of Civil Infrastructure Systems
Improbable Is Not Impossible: Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Interdependencies in Civil Infrastructure Systems
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Design Challenges for Future Wireless Systems
Next-Generation Mobile Wireless Internet Technology
Service Architectures for Emerging Wireless Networks
Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS): The Web Gets Physical
TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN BODY
Applying Simulation Technology to the Life Sciences
Reengineering the Paralyzed Nervous System
Merging Living Cells and Microsystems Engineering
DINNER SPEECH
Technology Innovation in the New Era
APPENDIXES
Contributors
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Participants