Grand Challenges for Engineering

The Grand Challenges for Engineering are a set of 14 goals identified by the National Academy of Engineering through a poll of technology experts as the most pressing and significant of our time.

The Challenges

From the National Academy of Engineering web site on the Grand Challenges

• Make solar energy economical
• Provide energy from fusion
• Develop carbon sequestration methods
• Manage the nitrogen cycle
• Provide access to clean water
• Restore and improve urban infrastructure
• Advance health informatics
• Engineer better medicines
• Reverse-engineer the brain
• Prevent nuclear terror
• Secure cyberspace
• Enhance virtual reality
• Advance personalized learning
• Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

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External Links

• Links specifically about the Grand Challenges. Note - These relate specifically to the NAE and the Grand Challenges, not the themes of the Grand Challenges.
  • National Academy of Engineering
  • Grand Challenges for Engineering
  • Media:
    • Engineering’s greatest challenge: Our survival, MSNBC, updated 15 February 2008, accessed 15 August 2008
    • Leading Engineers and Scientists Identify Advances That Could Improve Quality of Life Around the World, National Science Foundation, updated 20 February 2008, accessed 15 August 2008
    • Grand Challenges for Engineering - Video, YouTube, accessed 15 August 2008
• Links relevant to the Grand Challenges:
  • Make solar energy economical
    • Two Large Solar Plants Planned in California, New York Times, accessed 15 August 2008
    • PG & E to buy power from new solar projects, Los Angeles Times, accessed 15 August 2008
  • Provide energy from fusion
    • The New Hot Job: Nuclear Engineering, US News & World Report, accessed 15 August 2008
  • Develop carbon sequestration methods
  • Manage the nitrogen cycle
  • Provide access to clean water
  • Restore and improve urban infrastructure
    • 5 things your car will finally do in 2020, CNN, updated 12 March 2008, accessed 15 August 2008
  • Advance health informatics
  • Engineer better medicines
  • Reverse-engineer the brain
  • Prevent nuclear terror
  • Secure cyberspace
  • Enhance virtual reality
  • Advance personalized learning
  • Engineer the tools of scientific discovery