Grand Challenges – Engineering Challenges.
The century ahead poses challenges as formidable as any from millennia past.
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Here are the Grand Challenges for engineering as determined by a committee of the National Academy of Engineering:
- 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
Find out what committee members said about the challenges at the news conference where they were unveiled.