King to Attend Fall NAE Symposium

Associate Professor William King is one of 88 of the nation's brightest young engineers selected to attend the national Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 15th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disicplines attend the two-and-a-half-day event. This year's participants were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations in industry, academia and government. They were chosen from approximately 240 applicants.

"In today's challenging economic times, we look more than ever toward our engineering innovators," said NAE President Charles M. Vest. "The U.S. Frontiers of Engineering program brings together a diverse group of this country's most promising young engineers, and gives them a forum to discuss multi-disciplinary ways of addressing the issues that will carry us into tomorrow's economy."

The symposium will be held September 10-12 at the National Academies' Beckman Center at the University of California, Irvine, and will examine engineering tools for scientific discovery; engineering the health care delivery system; nano/micro photonics and new applications; and resilient and sustainable infrastructures. Bradford W. Parkinson, who is credited with being the father of the Global Positioning System, will be a featured speaker.