The 2025 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held in Europe, dates and location to be determined. Sixty of the most promising early career engineers from the US and EU will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four topic areas. The event facilitates international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promotes the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourages the creation of a transatlantic network of world-class engineers. The symposium will be hosted in partnership with the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering and The Grainger Foundation. More information will be posted at a later time.

The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2025 Symposium will be held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, September 14-17. About 100 outstanding early career engineers will meet for an intensive 2-1/2 day symposium to discuss cutting-edge developments in four areas: Advances in Neural Engineering; Next-Generation Computing/Quantum Computing; Fusion Energy; and Sustainable Aerial Mobility. The goal of the Frontiers of Engineering program is to bring together engineers from all engineering disciplines and from industry, universities, and federal labs to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange and promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields in order to sustain and build US innovative capacity. We are grateful to The Grainger Foundation for its support. More information will be posted as it becomes available. DRAFT LIST OF SESSIONS (Working topics listed. Order of speakers and sessions TBD.) Chair: Karen Willcox, University of Texas at Austin ADVANCES IN NEURAL ENGINEERING Session co-chairs: Annabelle Singer, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Joshua Kline, Delsys Inc. Proposed Speakers: Flexible, transparent neural interfaces seamlessly integrate with tissue while simultaneously allowing optical access to the brain Daniel Gonzalez, Vanderbilt University Biochemically functionalized probes for cell-type–specific targeting and recording in the brain Anqi Zhang, California Institute of Technology Agonist-antagonist myoneural interface amputation preserves proprioceptive sensorimotor neurophysiology in lower limbs Shriya Srinivasan, Harvard University MyoSuite--A contact-rich simulation suite for musculoskeletal motor control Vikash Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University NEXT-GENERATION COMPUTING/QUANTUM COMPUTING (WORKING) Session co-chairs: Jean Anne Incorvia, University of Texas at Austin and Shavindra Prematatne, Intel Proposed Speakers: TBD Mollie Schwartz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology TBD Timothy Proctor, Sandia National Laboratories TBD Catherine Schuman, University of Tennessee Knoxville TBD Deep Jariwala, University of Pennsylvannia FUSION ENERGY Session co-chairs: Andrea Schmidt, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Patrick Snouffer, Zeno Power Systems Proposed Speakers: TBD Derek Sutherland, Realta TBD Adam Rutkowski, Marathon Fusion TBD Sara Ferry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology TBD Caroline Sorenson, Commonwealth Fusion Systems SUSTAINABLE AERIAL MOBILITY Session co-chairs: Phillip Ansell, University of Chicago-Illinois, and Mr. Kevin Antcliff, Joby Aviation Proposed Speakers: (preliminary talk topics) (Aviation technology, power and energy systems, and advanced aircraft concept formation) Anna Oldani, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Environment and Energy (Aviation technology, power and energy systems, and advanced aircraft concept formulation) Hubert Wong, Boeing (Life cycle assessment, techno economics of sustainability, economic impacts and operational networks of aviation) Florian Allroggen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Advanced air mobility, battery-electric aircraft systems, airline operations) Cedric Justin, Georgia Institute of Technology