Dan Jiao, Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering, is among 100 engineers chosen for the National Academy of Engineering's 2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The meeting, which is scheduled for September 19-21 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, will bring together a select group of the nation’s outstanding young engineers (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and government to discuss pioneering technical work and leading-edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors. Participation is by invitation following a competitive nomination and selection process. They were nominated for their exceptional engineering research and technical work.

Advances in engineering are moving with incredible speed across many facets of the profession. The goal of the Frontiers of Engineering symposium is to bring together outstanding leaders of these engineering developments. Convening top-notch people from disparate fields and challenging them to think about the developments at the frontiers of areas different from their own could lead to a variety of desirable results, including collaborative work, the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields, and the establishment of contacts among the next generation of engineering leaders.