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Workshops, Special Sessions and Luncheon Speakers

WORKSHOP TITLE: LUNCHEON LECTURE:
MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY WORKSHOP NAE GRAND CHALLENGE SCHOLARS
DATE/TIME: SUNDAY, JULY 10, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM PROGRAM
DATE/TIME: MONDAY, JULY 11, 12:15 – 1:55 PM
Room: Yellowstone
Presenters: Room: Regency A
Presenter:
Barton Smith, Utah State University
C. D. Mote, Jr., President of the National Academy of
Engineering

Douglas Neal, LaVision Inc.
Session Description:
The Grand Challenges for Engineering is possibly the clearest and most
compelling description of engineering for students and the public alike.
The solutions to fourteen NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering were
Workshop Description: proposed in 2008 as the goals necessary to realize the vision: “Continua-
The workshop will cover the following topics: tion of life on the planet as we know it in this century.” Each of these
challenges is a global-scale engineering system problem, like reverse-en-
• Introduction to Measurement Error and Uncertainty gineer the brain, provide access to clean water, manage the nitrogen
cycle and secure cyberspace. Solutions to each require global engage-
• Uncertainty of a Single Variable
ment because none is primarily nationally focused. This presentation
• Propagation of Uncertainty Using Taylor Series and Monte Carlo describes an engineering educational platform to prepare students for
Methods global problems like these grand challenges.

• A Priori Uncertainty Quantification for Experiment Planning Speaker Bio:
C. D. Mote, Jr. is President of the National Academy of Engineering and
• A Posteriori Uncertainty Quantification Regents’ Professor on leave from the University of Maryland, College
Park. His science policy work includes serving on the committee that
authored the National Academies’ “Rising above the
FED FEDERAL FUNDING PANEL
DATE/TIME: MONDAY, JULY 11, 4:00 – 5:40 PM Gathering Storm” report and chairing the committee on Global Science
and Technology Strategies and Their Effect on the U.S. National Security
Room: Regency BC
that published the report “S&T Strategies of Six Countries” among others.
Presenter: He is internationally recognized for his research on the dynamics of
William Olbrich, National Science Foundation (NSF) gyroscopic systems and the biomechanics of snow skiing. He has
Michael McKittrick, U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) produced more than 300 publications and is a Fellow of the American
Jay Dryer, National Aeronautics and Astronautics Administration (NASA) Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Mechanics, the
Thomas Fu, Office of Naval Research (ONR) American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical
Robert Kraus, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Society of America, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. He is the 2005 recipient of the Founders Award
from the National Academy of Engineering and the 2011 recipient of the
HEAT TRANSFER DIVISION FEDERAL American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME Medal in recognition of
FUNDING PANEL his comprehensive body of work on the dynamics of moving flexible
DATE/TIME: TUESDAY, JULY 12, 4:00 – 5:40 PM structures and his leadership in academia. He served as President of the
University of Maryland for 12 years and on the University of California,
Room: Regency BC
Berkeley faculty for 31 years where he held an endowed chair in Mechani-
Presenter:
cal Systems, was Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and served as Vice
Jose Lage, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Chancellor.
Mark Spector, Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Addison Stark, Advanced Research Project Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)
Patrick Phelan, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Technologies
Office
Joseph Stekli, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Sunspot Program
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