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= Overview =

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The National Academy of Engineers~~~~ ([http://www.nae.edu/ NAE]) Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) supports challenges to conquer the greatest engineering challenges of the 21st century. Using input from across the country, the NAE identified 14 areas in need of engineering solutions in the 21st century. Within these 14 areas, the GCSP developed a combined, co-, and extra-curricular program that is intended to prepare the next generation of students to address the challenges within society. The GCSP is an outcomes-based program that is designed to inspire a movement within the participant's local ecosystem. The goal is to pilot innovative educational approaches for engineering students and encourage students to engage with a diverse group of their peers from across the globe to solve the challenges that are crucial for the survival of generations to come.

The NAE Committee on Engineering's Grand Challenges has identified 14 areas awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century:

The 14 engineering challenges of the 21st century:

#'''Advance Personalized Learning: '''A growing appreciation of individual preferences and aptitudes has led toward more “personalized learning,” in which instruction is tailored to a student’s individual needs. Given the diversity of individual preferences, and the complexity of each human brain, developing teaching methods that optimize learning will require engineering solutions of the future.#'''Make Solar Energy Economical: ''' Currently, solar energy provides less than 1 percent of the world's total energy, but it has the potential to provide much, much more.#'''Enhance Virtual Reality: ''' Within many specialized fields, from psychiatry to education, virtual reality is becoming a powerful new tool for training practitioners and treating patients, in addition to its growing use in various forms of entertainment.#'''Reverse Engineer the Brain: ''' A lot of research has been focused on creating thinking machines—computers capable of emulating human intelligence— however, reverse-engineering the brain could have multiple impacts that go far beyond artificial intelligence and will promise great advances in healthcare, manufacturing, and communication.#'''Engineer Better Medicines: ''' Engineering can enable the development of new systems to use genetic information, sense small changes in the body, assess new drugs, and deliver vaccines to provide health care directly tailored to each person.#'''Advance Health Informatics: ''' As computers have become available for all aspects of human endeavors, there is now a consensus that a systematic approach to health informatics - the acquisition, management, and use of information in health - can greatly enhance the quality and efficiency of medical care and the response to widespread public health emergencies.#'''Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure: ''' Infrastructure is the combination of fundamental systems that support a community, region, or country. Society faces the formidable challenge of modernizing the fundamental structures that will support our civilization in centuries ahead.#'''Secure Cyberspace: ''' Computer systems are involved in the management of almost all areas of our lives; from electronic communications, and data systems, to controlling traffic lights to routing airplanes. It is clear that engineering needs to develop innovations for addressing a long list of cybersecurity priorities#'''Provide Access to Clean Water: ''' The world's water supplies are facing new threats; affordable, advanced technologies could make a difference for millions of people around the world.#'''Provide Energy from Fusion: ''' Human-engineered fusion has been demonstrated on a small scale. The challenge is to scale up the process to commercial proportions, in an efficient, economical, and environmentally benign way.#'''Prevent Nuclear Terror: ''' The need for technologies to prevent and respond to a nuclear attack is growing.#'''Manage the Nitrogen Cycle: ''' Engineers can help restore balance to the nitrogen cycle with better fertilization technologies and by capturing and recycling waste.#'''Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods: ''' Engineers are working on ways to capture and store excess carbon dioxide to prevent global warming.#'''Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery: ''' In the century ahead, engineers will continue to be partners with scientists in the great quest for understanding many unanswered questions of nature.

== What is Unique about GCSP ==

*Technology and Growth

*Resilience

<div>A full list of speakers can be found [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/14500/17849/18978.aspx#tabs here].</div><div>The programme for the summit can be found [https://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/other/ggcs-programme here]. </div><div> </div>

=== 2015 Beijing Summit ===

<div>The [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/14500/17800.aspx#tabs 2015 Beijing Summit] was planned and hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering from September 15-16, 2015. </div><div>The Summit focused on the following breakout sessions: </div>

In addition to endorsement by the NAE, former President Barack Obama was presented with a letter of commitment to growing the program to include 122 engineering schools internationally. At this time, GCSP has been implemented in over 40 universities worldwide. 

= Alumni of the Program =

*Ellen Chisa

Vp of Product, LolaOlin College of Engineering, 2010

*Edgar De Leon

Lean Intern, Memorial Health System

University of Southern California, 2016

*Amara Ijeoma Uyanna

Strategy and Operations Consultant, The Releaf Group Development Associate, UT Austin

Lousiana Tech University, 2016

See more here: [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/GrandChallengeScholarsProgram/24103/24175.aspx http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/GrandChallengeScholarsProgram/24103/24175.aspx]

= Contact Information =

<div>Keck Center of the National Academies</div><div>500 Fifth Street, NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20001</div>

== Grand Challenge Scholars Committee ==

<div>Important contacts for the administrative committee of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program can be found [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/14365/committee.aspx here].</div><div> </div><div>Student Contributors: [[Jessica Aldrich|Jessica_Aldrich]], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Michael_Thuis Michael Thuis], [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Tdaniels Tamika Daniels]</div><div> </div> [[Category:~~Resources~~Organizations]]

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