Buckeye engineers selected to participate in NAE’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
One Buckeye engineering professor and two alumnae are among 83 of the nation’s brightest young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 22nd annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium this September.
Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work were nominated to participate in the discussion of pioneering technical and leading-edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors.
Jennifer Leight, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, conducts research on the microenvironmental regulation of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity, an enzyme active in cancer metastasis. One of her current projects aims to advance knowledge of the factors that lead to increased levels of MMPs during disease progression. Funded by an Ohio Cancer Research Associates grant, the research could help identify new therapeutic targets to reduce cancer cell invasion and metastasis.
Leight will be joined at the symposium by alumnae Katherine Dykes (’07, electrical engineering) from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Qizhen Li (’03, ’04, materials science and engineering) from Washington State University.
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 The USFOE is the only academy program that will never get out of date,” said NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr.
