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<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Our next generation engineers require more diverse knowledge than ever before. The Grand Challenge Scholars program is looking at these ambitious tasks.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">• Create new capabilities</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">• Provide pragmatic solutions for basic human needs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">• Develop new entrepreneurial opportunities</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">• Reinvent human interactions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">• Transform systems thinking</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">• Be the architects of a sustainable society</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">• Be mindful of unintended consequences</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">• Connect technology with society</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;</span></span></span>

*<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;Create new capabilities</span></span></span>*<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;Provide pragmatic solutions for basic human needs</span></span></span>*<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;Develop new entrepreneurial opportunities</span><br/span></span>*<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;Reinvent human interactions</span><br/></span><u/span>*<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The five components of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program include</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;Transform systems thinking</span></span></span>*<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;Be the architects of a sustainable society<br/span></span></uspan>*<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;Be mindful of unintended consequences</span><br/span></span>*<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><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.&nbsp;Connect technology with society</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span> <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); ">&nbsp;</span><br/><br/span><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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br/></span><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>