Grand Challenges for Engineering Imperatives, Prospects, and Priorities: Summary of a Forum (2016) / Chapter Skim
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It's all about connection and the excitement of youth." Building on El-Baz's idea of a children's book for each of the Grand Challenges, Georges Belfort of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggested producing a movie that teaches young students what engineering is and how people can create and build things. Andy Jackson of the University of Pennsylvania emphasized the importance of making sure that all teachers understand the relevance of the Grand Challenges, including social science teachers, geography teachers, and all the other teachers who influence students' educational and career choices.
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In many developed countries, young people educated in engineering do not want to be engineers any more. They enter engineering to get a bachelor's degree and then go into finance and banking.
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comes to a college to evaluate an engineering program, it should give the program credit if it has elements that involve the Grand Challenges, he said. "Grade school, high school, engineering schools, and even industry should receive credits -- tax credits, for example -- if they are engaged appropriately, within their mission, in supporting and expanding the Grand Challenges." In response to a question about whether college capstone courses could be oriented toward the Grand Challenges, Harris said, "we should not wait until the capstone design experience." MIT has dem Because the Grand Challenges onstrated that first-year engineer are "a long-term issue, the best ing students can learn design, and place to start is with people who are likely to be here in the "there is nothing unique about long term." MIT in that regard." He cited the – Calestous Juma example of a first-year student who suggested taking advantage of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)
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Another exchange concerned nuclear waste. Ron Latanision of the consulting company Exponent pointed out that the social science dimensions of the issue are as important as the political dimensions.
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"A much larger percentage of the people on this planet, whether they are practicing engineers or not, have to be competent to separate fact from nonsense so that when their governments deploy resources and assets, they do it in an intelligent way." Added Broers, "Could I be controversial and suggest that a challenge should be to provide for the women of the world the knowledge, education, and means to control the number of children that they have? " THE ROLE OF THE US NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING The US National Academy of Engineering and other academies of engineering, science, and medicine around the world can play a pivotal role not only in identifying but solving the Grand Challenges.
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John Kassakian of MIT noted that the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have a dimension that could be used very effectively to leverage attention to the Grand Challenges: the committees they convene to address national and international con Audience members queue to participate in the postforum discussion.
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Yet in the United States a substantial number of people, including quite a few congressmen and presidential candidates, say they do not believe in anthropogenic global warming. If policymakers do not believe in the reality of the problems that humanity faces, he asked, how can funding for the necessary research and change be sustained?
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The US National Academy of Engineering has helped focus the world's attention on the need to forge a path toward a sustainable, productive, and fulfilling future. By continuing to draw on the expertise of engineers, the institution can help create that future, said Mote.
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