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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.

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