Yip attended the 2018 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Tsukuba, Japan, where 60 of the most promising early career engineers from Japan and the United States met for an intensive two-and-a-half day symposium on developments at the cutting edge of engineering technology. The event is intended to facilitate international and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourage the creation of a transpacific network of world-class engineers.