21 Mai EVENT – FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM 2026

The 2026 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering symposium will be held November 2-5 in Chicago, IL.

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 engineering. 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 University of Chicago and is supported by The Grainger Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

LIST OF SESSIONS (draft)

• Co-chairs:
  Markus Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Paolo Samori, University of Strasbourg
• THE HUMAN-ELECTRONICS NEXUS: SOFT ROBOTICS AND BIO-INTEGRATED MATERIALS
• GENERATIVE AI FOR PHYSICS AND MATTER
• NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING: POST VON-NEUMANN ARCHITECTURES – HARDWARE AND PHYSICAL COMPUTING
• WATER SECURITY: DESALINATION AND BLUE ENERGY – NANOFLUIDICS AND SEPARATION