2011 NAE Annual Meeting

Annual meeting of NAE Members included both public and private sessions including The Public Forum Making Things: 21st Century Manufacturing and Design which was videotaped.  Watch the video here.

 

Sunday, October 16, 2011  
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Registration
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Member Activities
12:00 Noon - 5:30 p.m. Public Program
  Chair's Remarks
Irwin Jacobs
  President's Address (Read the Transcript here)
Charles M. Vest
  Induction Ceremony for the NAE Class of 2011
  Presentation of the Founders and Arthur M. Bueche Awards
Bernard M. Gordon Prize Recipient Lecture
  Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers
Gilbreth Lecturers

Water Infrastructure in a Digital Age
Jeanne VanBriesen, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director, Center for Water Quality in Urban Environment Systems, Carnegie Mellon University

The Potential of Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges
Armando Fox, adjunct associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a co-founder of the Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory
 
  Distinguished Lecture
Arunava Majumdar
Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency -Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
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5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Reception
   
Monday, October 17, 2011  
7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Registration
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. NAE Business Session (Members only)
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Making Things: 21st Century Manufacturing and Design
  Watch the Making Things Video
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Member Lunch Activities
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Section Meetings (Members, Keck Center of the National Academies and J.W. Marriott)
   

 

Charles M. Vest
speaker
Charles M. Vest Read Bio
National Academy of Engineering
Engineers: The Next Generation - Do we need more? Who will they be? What will they do?
J.W. Marriott Hotel

Do we need more engineers?

The distinguished National Academy volunteers who wrote the influential report Rising Above the Gathering Storm believed that we need to increase the number of engineers graduating in this country. Not everyone agrees with this assessment and I am frequently asked, “Do we really need more engineers?”

I think the answer is “Yes,” for at least four reasons:

  1. U.S. industry, including the national security industry, is facing a wave of retirements in the coming years;
  2. It is not crystal clear that we will forever be able to fill the engineering gap with the best and brightest from other countries;
  3. Many high-tech companies report that they cannot find qualified U.S. citizens to fill critically important engineering and technology jobs, including in manufacturing; but most important ... More
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October 16, 2011 – October 17, 2011
JW Marriott Hotel
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC