From: Andrea Perkins <andreap@u.washington.edu>

Date: March 19, 2010 10:05:19 AM PDT

To: "faculty@engr.washington.edu" <faculty@engr.washington.edu>, "staff@engr.washington.edu" <staff@engr.washington.edu>, "students@engr.washington.edu" <students@engr.washington.edu>

Subject: [CoE Students] UW Engineering | Early Bird Registration for NAE "Grand Challenges" Seattle Summit

Early registration rates end April 1! Seattle Summit: May 2‑3, 2010   The century ahead poses challenges as formidable as any from millennia past, and engineers will play a key role in solving them. The University of Washington Seattle Summit is focused on the following grand challenges: ·         Engineer better medicines ·         Engineer the tools of scientific discovery Join the conversation. Edward Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering; Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and of Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Bonnie Dunbar, President and CEO, Museum of Flight   Mike Griffin, King-McDonald Eminent Scholar and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Director, Center for System Studies, The University of Alabama in Huntsville   Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington; Director, UW eScience Institute; Chair, Computing Community Consortium   Nicholas A. Peppas, Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacy; Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin   Suzie Pun, Robert F. Rushmer Associate Professor in Bioengineering, University of Washington   Larry Smarr, Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology, University of California, San Diego   Sunday, May 2 Meany Hall, University of Washington campus - Student Design Competition - Summit Kick-off Monday, May 3  Washington State Convention Center, downtown Seattle  - Engineer Better Medicines: Nicholas A. Peppas, Suzie Pun, Lonnie Edelheit, Bruce Montgomery and Matthew O’Donnell  - Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery: Larry Smarr, Ed Lazowska, Mike Griffin, Ed Crawley and Bonnie Dunbar  Detailed schedule » What are the grand challenges? Learn more: watch a video or visit theNAE site.

www.engr.washington.edu/naesummit

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