Professor Selected for Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Jamie Hestekin, associate professor of chemical engineering, was one of 85 young engineers selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 17th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. This symposium is a gathering of engineers between the ages of 30 and 45 whose research and technical work has been judged by the academy to be exceptional. Attendees are selected by a panel of experts from a pool of hundreds of applicants.
“The young engineering innovators of today are solving the grand challenges that face us in the coming century,” said NAE President Charles M. Vest in a press release. “We are proud that our Frontiers of Engineering program brings this diverse group of people together and gives them an opportunity to share and showcase their work.”
The symposium was held on Sept. 19-21 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and featured presentations on topics such as three dimensional printing, sematic processing, green building and neuroprosthetics.
Hestekin explained that the benefit of attending the conference came not from learning about his own discipline, but from the rare opportunity to network with some of the brightest young minds in the general field of engineering. “It’s meant to educate the participants on the up and coming things and get us talking to people we wouldn’t normally be talking to,” he explained. “It was a lot of fun.”
Contacts
Camilla Medders, director of communications
College of Engineering
(479) 575-5697,
camillam@uark.edu
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