Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering From the 2004 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering (Repost)

The reports covered these four areas: engineering for extreme environments, designer materials, multiscale modeling, and engineering and entertainment. Papers in the book cover topics such as scalable mobile robots for deployment in polar climates, the challenges of landing on Mars, thin-film active materials, vascular tissue engineering, small-scale processes and large-scale simulations of the climate system, simulating physically accurate illumination in computer graphics, and designing socially intelligent robots, among others. Appendixes include information about the contributors, the symposium program, and a list of the meeting participants.

This volume includes 14 papers from the NAE's Tenth Annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium held in September 2004.

Contents
ENGINEERING FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
Introduction
Cool Robots: Scalable Mobile Robots for Instrument Network Deployment in Polar Climates
The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Extreme Engineering Projects
The Challenges of Landing on Mars
Accessing the Lunar Poles for Human Exploration Missions
DESIGNER MATERIALS
Introduction
Thin-Film Active Materials
The Future of Engineering Materials: Multifunction for Performance-Tailored Structures
Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering
MULTISCALE MODELING
Introduction
Equation-Free Modeling For Complex Systems
Modeling the Stuff of the Material World: Do We Need All of the Atoms?
Balancing Scales in Biological Models
Small-Scale Processes and Large-Scale Simulations of the Climate System
ENGINEERING AND ENTERTAINMENT
Introduction
Capturing and Simulating Physically Accurate Illumination in Computer Graphics
Spatial Audio Reproduction: Toward Individualized Binaural Sound
Designing Socially Intelligent Robots
APPENDIXES
Contributors
Program
Participants