Frontiers of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

• 1 Front Matter; 2 ENGINEERING FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS Introduction--Mary Kae Lockwood and John W. Weatherly; 3 Cool Robots: Scalable Mobile Robots for Instrument Network Deployment in Polar Climates--Laura R. Ray, Alexander D. Price, Alexander Streeter, Daniel Denton, and James H. Lever; 4 The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Extreme Engineering Projects--Jon Berkoe; 5 The Challenges of Landing on Mars--Tommaso P. Rivellini; 6 Accessing the Lunar Poles for Human Exploration Missions--B. Kent Joosten; 7 DESIGNER MATERIALS Introduction--Kristi S. Anseth and Diann E. Brei; 8 Thin-Film Active Materials--Greg P. Carman; 9 The Future of Engineering Materials: Multifunction for Performance-Tailored Structures--Leslie A. Momoda; 10 Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering--Jennifer L. West; 11 MULTISCALE MODELING Introduction--Grant S. Heffelfinger and Dimitrios Maroudas; 12 Equation-Free Modeling for Complex Systems--Ioannis G. Kevrekidis; 13 Modeling the Stuff of the Material World: Do We Need All of the Atoms?--Rob Phillips; 14 Balancing Scales in Biological Models--Adam Paul Arkin; 15 Small-Scale Processes and Large-Scale Simulations of the Climate System--Bjorn B. Stevens; 16 ENGINEERING AND ENTERTAINMENT Introduction--Chris Kyriakakis; 17 Capturing and Simulating Physically Accurate Illumination in Computer Graphics--Paul Debevec; 18 Spatial Audio Reproduction: Toward Individualized Binaural Sound--William G. Gardner; 19 Designing Socially Intelligent Robots--Cynthia Breazeal; 20 Appendix A: Designing Socially Intelligent Robots--Cynthia Breazeal; 21 Appendix B: Program; 22 Appendix C: Participants