附註:"Reports on leading-edge engineering from the 2004 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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. BreiThin-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. StevensENGINEERING 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