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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

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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

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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.”

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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

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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! CDM jr


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