The National Academy Press has made available online the textbook, Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading Edge Engineering from the 1998 the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering. Topics included in this book are Biomaterials and Optical Imaging for Biomedicine, Advanced Materials, Simulation in Manufacturing, and Robotics, among others.

New for 2003, this publication "highlights the papers presented at the Eighth Annual National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Symposium." Each section of the report represents an extended summary of the symposium's presentations. A chapter on Chemical and Molecular Engineering in the 21st Century includes papers on fuel cells, nanoscopic structures, and computational fluid...