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

This issue includes repots given at the NAE Symposium in September 2002. This reports coveres four broad areas: chemical and molecular engineering, human factors engineering, nuclear energy, and quantum information technology.

The 2002 symposium was held September 19–21 at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California.

Contents
CHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR ENGINEERING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Fuel Cells That Run on Common Fuels
Dimension-Dependent Properties of Macromolecules in Nanoscopic Structures
The Role of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Process Industries
TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN BEINGS
The Human Factor
Human Factors Applications in Surface Transportation
Implications of Human Factors Engineering for Novel Software User-Interface Design
Frontiers of Human-Computer Interaction: Direct-Brain Interfaces
THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies
Licensing and Building New Nuclear Infrastructure
Sustainable Energy from Nuclear Fission Power
Stretching the Boundaries of Nuclear Technology
ENGINEERING CHALLENGES FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Quantum Cryptography
Ion-Trap Quantum Computation
Scalable Quantum Computing Using Solid-State Devices
DINNER SPEECH
The Science, Technology, and Business of Digital Communication
APPENDIXES
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