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 |
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| 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 |
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Chair's Remarks
Irwin Jacobs |
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President's Address (Read the Transcript here)
Charles M. Vest |
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Induction Ceremony for the NAE Class of 2011 |
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Presentation of the Founders and Arthur M. Bueche Awards
Bernard M. Gordon Prize Recipient Lecture |
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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
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Distinguished Lecture
Arunava Majumdar
Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency -Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
View Slides
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| 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
Reception |
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| Monday, October 17, 2011 |
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| 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 |
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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) |
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speaker
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:
- U.S. industry, including the national security industry, is facing a wave of retirements in the coming years;
- It is not crystal clear that we will forever be able to fill the engineering gap with the best and brightest from other countries;
- 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 ...
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