Frontiers of Engineering : Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2004 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering.

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- ENGINEERING FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS -- Introduction--Mary Kae Lockwood and John W. Weatherly -- 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 -- The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Extreme Engineering Projects--Jon Berkoe -- The Challenges of Landing on Mars--Tommaso P. Rivellini -- Accessing the Lunar Poles for Human Exploration Missions--B. Kent Joosten -- DESIGNER MATERIALS -- Introduction--Kristi S. Anseth and Diann E. Brei -- Thin-Film Active Materials--Greg P. Carman -- The Future of Engineering Materials: Multifunction for Performance-Tailored Structures--Leslie A. Momoda -- Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering--Jennifer L. West -- MULTISCALE MODELING -- Introduction--Grant S. Heffelfinger and Dimitrios Maroudas -- Equation-Free Modeling for Complex Systems--Ioannis G. Kevrekidis -- Modeling the Stuff of the Material World: Do We Need All of the Atoms?--Rob Phillips -- Balancing Scales in Biological Models--Adam Paul Arkin -- Small-Scale Processes and Large-Scale Simulations of the Climate System--Bjorn B. Stevens -- ENGINEERING AND ENTERTAINMENT -- Introduction--Chris Kyriakakis -- Capturing and Simulating Physically Accurate Illumination in Computer Graphics--Paul Debevec -- Spatial Audio Reproduction: Toward Individualized Binaural Sound--William G. Gardner -- Designing Socially Intelligent Robots--Cynthia Breazeal -- APPENDIXES -- Contributors -- Program -- Participants.

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