This book is freely available online. Here are a few of the chapter topics: Miniature Spy Planes: The Next Generation of Flying Robots Toward Micromechanical Flyers Design Challenges for Future Wireless Systems Next-Generation Mobile Wireless Internet Technology Service Architectures for Emerging Wireless Networks Wireless Integrated Network Sensors Reengineering the Paralyzed Nervous Systems Merging Living Cells and Microsystems Engineering Here's a sample from a chapter mentioned above: A typical miniature unmanned air vehicle has a quiet engine and is difficult to spot in the air. It can cruise the skies day or night in a wide range of weather conditions gathering information for law enforcement, traffic monitoring, air-pollution control, farming, fire spotting, power line inspection, search and rescue, and weather monitoring. Individuals will log on to a Web site and request image data for a specific region. This request will prompt teams of mini-UAVs to fly to the appropriate location, gather the requested data, and send the data to the customer over the Internet. The mini-UAVs doing the work will be all but invisible. Symposium on the Frontiers of Engineering | National Academies |