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NAE Involvement in International Affairs
Pages 19-26

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... While one of the six original objectives and purposes of the NAE was "to explore means for promoting cooperation in engineering in the United States and abroad," for its first 5 years, NAE was too busy getting established here in the United States to devote much time to this charge. THE FIRST FOREIGN SECRETARY In 1970, the office of the NAE foreign secretary and a Committee on Intemational Activities were established, despite the fact that relations between the National Academy of Sciences and the NAE were in disarray.
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From page 20...
... Another was the committee members' broad knowledge about international energy issues. When President Nixon directed me, acting as his science advisor, to establish and chair an advisory committee on energy research and development, I was well acquainted with the NAE and its energy study and used a substantial number of those NAE members as the nucleus of the new White House panel.
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From page 21...
... With this clear success, the committee took off like a rocket and, as committees are wont to do, they reconstituted themselves as the Committee on Technology and International Economic and Trade Issues, holding workshops and securing long-te~ funding from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) newly created directorate for science, technology, and international affairs, which itself was moving into these new areas.
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From page 22...
... Another example of NAE involvement in international affairs came in 1978, when NRC Chairman Phil Handler established a committee to advise the State Department on its preparations for the 1979 United Nations International Conference on Science and Technology for Developing Nations. Working with the Office of International Affairs, NAE helped select panel members in five areas: education, health, energy, communications, and civil infrastructure and transportation.
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From page 23...
... These meetings grew in popularity and an increasing number of nonmembers were invited to participate. At a meeting of officers of the member academies in 1985, NAE President Bob White proposed changing CAETS' name to the Council of Academies of Engineering and Technical Societies, drawing up a charter of requirements for joining the council, immediately soliciting membership from some obvious candidate countries, and helping other nations to start or reorganize their existing academies to meet the requirements.
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From page 24...
... Engineering Through International Cooperation (National Academy of Engineering, 1987) , was very influential due to the efforts of two NAE members, Karl Willenbrock and Bert Westwood, who led the efforts in two areas, education and industry, respectively.
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From page 25...
... Gerry and I got together on a major project when Allan Bromley, President Bush's science advisor, asked NAS President Frank Press, Kennedy School of Government professor Ashton Carter, and me, with help from the Academy complex and the Carnegie Commission, to form a group of experts to study the Soviet situation and report to the White House in a month. Gerry volunteered to cover commercialization of technologies; Jim Wyugaarden, NAS foreign secretary, focused on basic research; NAE member Al Trivelpiece looked at multidisciplinary, problem-oriented research; and Ash Carter examined issues related to weapons scientists and engineers.
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... Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Engineering. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineenng, and Institute of Medicine.
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