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

www.engineeringchallenges.org

“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!

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