Jimmy Carter on the Needs of the Poor PostedDecember 21, 2019 AT 12:40 PM Former president Jimmy Cartner describes what he sees as the greatest challenge the world faces. Read More
Raluca Barbulescu EngineerGirl Essay Contest: Responsible Engineering PostedNovember 3, 2015 AT 1:55 PM Engineers often make challenging decisions that often affect thousands of people. To help them to make good decisions, many engineering organizations have created guidelines for professional behavior or "codes of ethics". Most engineering codes of ethics state that engineers must consider the safety, health, and general well-being of the people that are or may be affected by their work. Many of these codes also state that engineers must also consider how their work can sustainably ... Read More
Ideas from Kids PostedMarch 21, 2015 AT 4:31 PM Hey, kids, it's your future! Find out what kids think about Grand Challenges for Engineering! Each year the NAE invites students to get involved in the Grand Challenges; examples include the 2015 EngineerGirl Essay Contest and the Engineering for You Video Contest 2. Check out the EngineeringGirl winning essays and the E4U2 video entries! Check back to learn about more opportunities for children or to share your ideas! Read More
NAE Grand Challenges What Do You Think? PostedMarch 21, 2015 AT 3:30 PM Every comment submitted to this fully moderated discussion has to be reviewed by an engineeringchallenges.org moderator before it is published on the site. Please keep your contributions civil, tasteful, and relevant. All comments must comply with our terms of use. Read More
NAE Grand Challenges Great Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century PostedMarch 19, 2015 AT 10:09 AM http://www.greatachievements.org In the century just ended, engineering recorded its grandest accomplishments. The widespread development and distribution of electricity and clean water, automobiles and airplanes, radio and television, spacecraft and lasers, antibiotics and medical imaging, and computers and the Internet are just some of the highlights from a century in which engineering revolutionized and improved virtually every aspect of human life. Read More
Farouk El-Baz on the Apollo Program PostedJuly 23, 2009 AT 12:11 PM A Grand Challenges committee member talks about the spirit of the space race...and the importance of recapturing that spirit to meet today's problems. Read More
NAE Grand Challenges Paul Crutzen, Bruce Beck, and Michael Thompson on Cities PostedMay 17, 2007 AT 10:27 AM An essay by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the University of California Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and an Institute Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); M. Bruce Beck, who is Wheatley-Georgia Research Alliance Professor at the University of Georgia, an Institute Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and a visiting professor at Imperial College, ... Read More
Mike Huckabee on Biofuels PostedMay 11, 2007 AT 9:27 AM By Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and a current Republican candidate for U.S. President. Read More
NAE Grand Challenges Xu Kuangdi on Fusion, IT, and Biotech PostedMarch 1, 2007 AT 1:38 PM By Xu Kuangdi, Former President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Read More
NAE Grand Challenges Ed Catmull on Energy PostedJanuary 30, 2007 AT 10:39 AM By Ed Catmull, President, Pixar Animation Studios & Disney Animation Studios Read More
NAE Grand Challenges Norm Augustine on the Nature of Challenges PostedJanuary 30, 2007 AT 9:57 AM By Norman R. Augustine, retired Chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corp. Read More
NAE Grand Challenges 21st Century Innovations PostedJanuary 29, 2007 AT 10:12 AM By Gene Meieran, Intel Senior Fellow (retired), Member, NAE Read More
NAE Grand Challenges Educating Engineers for 2020 and Beyond PostedJanuary 9, 2007 AT 11:29 AM By Charles M. Vest, President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an NAE member. This article is based on a talk given on October 10, 2005, at the NAE Annual Meeting. Read More
NAE Grand Challenges Capturing and Simulating Physically Accurate Illumination in Computer Graphics PostedJanuary 9, 2007 AT 11:00 AM By Paul Debevec, executive producer of graphics research at the Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California. Read More
NAE Grand Challenges The Challenges of Landing on Mars PostedJanuary 9, 2007 AT 10:51 AM By Tommaso Rivellini, the lead mechanical engineer for Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Read More
NAE Grand Challenges Engineering for the Developing World PostedDecember 5, 2006 AT 11:30 AM By Bernard Amadei, professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Read More
