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<br/><br/><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The five components of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program include:</span></u><br/><br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1. Project or research activity engaging a GC theme or challenge: Working to solve the NAE Grand Challenges is the motivation for the GCSP. Each GC scholar must participate in a substantial team or independent project relating to a Grand Challenge theme or specific Grand Challenge problem.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><br/><br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2. Interdisciplinary curriculum: Bridging engineering to other disciplines is essential for solving the NAE Grand Challenges. An “Engineering-Plus” curriculum should be devised that prepares engineering students to work at the boundary between an engineering and non-engineering discipline, such as public policy, international relations, business, law, ethics, human behavior, risk, medicine and the natural sciences. However, this must be more than simply double majoring or picking up a minor in a non-engineering discipline.</span><br/><br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3. Entrepreneurship: Implementing innovation is central to technology development. Each GC scholar must participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component on the process of translating invention and innovation into market ventures. This may be either risk-taking ventures for business or introducing technology for not-for-profits in the public interest.</span><br/><br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">4. Global dimension: Global awareness is necessary for working effectively in an interdependent world. Students may participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component that instills elements necessary to develop innovations in a global economy, or address ethical issues of global concern. Domestic activities that stress global or cross-cultural implications may satisfy this component.</span><br/><br/><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">5. Service learning: Working for the benefit of others is the foundation of a civil society. Students may participate in a curricular or meta-curricular component that deepens their social awareness and to heighten their motivation to bring their technical expertise to bear on societal.</span></span></span>
=Distinct Differences From Other Offerings= <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">This scholars programs is different from other programs in the since of all students from the campus can participate. Students are able to collaborate with other engineers that are active in the scholarship program. </span></span><p style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">Richard Miller, founder of the 14 grand challenges for the National Academy of Engineers says, "This provides students with a vision with what they can do with engineering and how they can change the world." </span></span></p>
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