plenary remarks caets beijing meeting, june 3, 2014 the u. s. national academy of engineering
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Engineering Grand Challenges for the 21 st Century. C. D. Mote, Jr. President. Plenary Remarks CAETS Beijing Meeting, June 3, 2014 The U. S. National Academy of Engineering. Highways Spacecraft Internet Imaging Household appliances Health technologies Petroleum technologies - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Plenary RemarksCAETS Beijing Meeting, June 3, 2014
The U. S. National Academy of Engineering
C. D. Mote, Jr.President
Engineering Grand Challenges
for the 21st Century
1. Electrification
2. Automobile
3. Airplane
4. Water supply & distribution
5. Electronics
6. Radio & TV
7. Agricultural mechanization
8. Computers
9. Telephone
10. Air conditioning & refrigeration
11. Highways
12. Spacecraft
13. Internet
14. Imaging
15. Household appliances
16. Health technologies
17. Petroleum technologies
18. Laser & fiber optics
19. Nuclear technologies
20. High-performance materials
Grand Challenges Committee
14 Grand Challenges for Engineering
“Engineering creates solutions serving the welfare of humanity and the needs of society.”
Value Proposition forEngineering
Financial Times
USA Today Business Week
Washington Post
The Grand Challenge for Science and Math
Students may resist geek studies. But they'll flock in for the
opportunity to change the world
14 Grand Challenges for Engineering
“It could have been a Final Four basketball game for Duke. . . . students clamored for tickets, professors canceled classes, and organizers fretted over getting twice as many applicants as spaces. . . . . . . was a different kind of March Madness. . . .
Despite a snowstorm, 700 students . . . slogged through the snow to attend a conference they hoped would set them on the path to changing the world. . . .
2009 Business Week on Grand Challenge Summit
The Grand Challenges Summit was a conference to discuss the most important challenges facing society and how engineering . . .
Ask a student to . . . better the world with engineering and they jump up and down.”
2009 Business Week on Grand Challenge Summit
• Duke University• The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering• University of Southern California• Arizona State University• Louisiana Tech University• NC State University• University of Iowa• Lafayette College• The University of Tennessee• Bucknell University• Western New England College• St. Louis University, Parks College of Engineering• The University of Texas at Austin• SUNY College• University of Utah• Florida Gulf Coast University
Grand Challenges Scholars Program
The five GCSP components:
• Research experience
• Interdisciplinary (engineering+)
• Entrepreneurship
• Global dimension
• Learning social responsibility
High School in
North Carolina
frames its entire
curriculum on the
NAE Grand
Challenges for
Engineering
Movie
Competition
K-12 Education
“If you think that you can or you
think that you can’t, you are right.”
Henry Ford
Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars
“Thinking that you can is what the Grand
Challenge Scholars Program is actually
about.”
Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars
Engineering Grand Challenges
Thank You For Your Attention!
CDM jr