Assistant Professor Anna Erickson,  mechanical engineering, and Associate Professor Brian German, aerospace engineering, have been selected to attend the 2015 Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, to be held Sept. 9-11 in Irvine, CA.

Erickson and German are among eighty-nine young engineers nationally invited to the two-day symposium, which is sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). “The USFOE symposium brings together some of our nation’s brightest young engineering talents and gives them the opportunity to develop professional relationships that become critical their advancing our nation’s well-being throughout their careers,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr.

The annual event gives rising stars within various fields of engineering a rare opportunity to make cross-disciplinary and cross-professional connections and to promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches that promise to build US innovative capacity.

This year's FOE event was coordinated by NAE member and GT-AE professor Robert Braun and will feature four formal sessions: Cybersecurity and Privacy; Forecasting National Disasters; Optical and Mechanical Metamaterials; and Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets. The final of these presentations will be co-chaired by GT-AE assistant professor Mitchell Walker.

An invitation to the USFOE symposium is considered a true honor by rising talents in the profession. The annual meeting recognizes exceptional engineering research and technical work among engineers ages 30 to 45. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- are nominated by fellow engineers or organizations.