Dr. Jennifer Leight Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2016 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Dr. Jennifer Leight, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. 

Dr. Leight is one of eighty-three of the nation’s brightest young engineers that have been selected to take part in the symposium. Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the 2 1/2 day event. The participants -- from industry, academia, and government -- were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations.

The 2016 USFOE will be held on September 19-21 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif., and will cover cutting-edge developments in four areas: technologies for understanding and treating cancer, pixels at scale, water desalination and purification, and extreme engineering.

“The USFOE symposium gives our nation’s brightest younger engineers the opportunity to engage, collaborate, and develop long-term relationships that are critical to advancing our nation’s future. The USFOE is the only academy program that will never get out of date,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr.

Congratulations, Dr. Leight!