1. Engineering Grand Challenges for the 21st Century
C. D. Mote, Jr.
President
Plenary Remarks
CAETS Beijing Meeting, June 3, 2014
The U. S. National Academy of Engineering

3. Electrification
Automobile
Airplane
Water supply & distribution
Electronics
Radio & TV
Agricultural mechanization
Computers
Telephone
Air conditioning & refrigeration
Highways
Spacecraft
Internet
Imaging
Household appliances
Health technologies
Petroleum technologies
Laser & fiber optics
Nuclear technologies
High-performance materials

4. Grand Challenges Committee

5. 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering

7. Value Proposition for Engineering
“Engineering creates solutions serving the welfare of humanity and the needs of society.”

8. The Grand Challenge for Science and Math
USA Today
Business Week
Financial Times
The Grand Challenge for Science and Math
Students may resist geek studies. But they'll flock in for the opportunity to change the world
Washington Post

9. 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering

10. on Grand Challenge Summit
2009 Business Week
on Grand Challenge Summit
“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

11. on Grand Challenge Summit
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.”

13. Grand Challenges Scholars Program
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
The five GCSP components:
Research experience
Interdisciplinary (engineering+)
Entrepreneurship
Global dimension
Learning social responsibility

14. High School in North Carolina frames its entire curriculum on the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering

15. K-12 Education
Movie
Competition

19. Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars
“If you think that you can or you think that you can’t, you are right.” Henry Ford

20. Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars
“Thinking that you can is what the Grand Challenge Scholars Program is actually about.”

21. Engineering Grand Challenges
Thank You For Your Attention!
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