2011 NAE Annual Meeting

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Dr. Charles M. Vest

National Academy of Engineering

Charles M. Vest was President Emeritus of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Vest earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963, and M.S.E. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1964 and 1967 ...

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Armando Fox

University of California

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Jeanne VanBriesen

Center for Water Quality in Urban Environment Systems, Carnegie Mellon University

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Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs

Qualcomm Incorporated

IRWIN MARK JACOBS
CHAIRMAN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Education:

Irwin Mark Jacobs received the B.E.E. degree in 1956 from Cornell University and the M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957 and 1959, respectively.

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On July 1, 1985, Dr. Jacobs became a founder and the ...

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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 View Slides
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)

Dr. Charles M. Vest

Engineers: The Next Generation - Do we need more? Who will they be? What will they do?

Date	October 16, 2011
Subject	Engineers: The Next Generation

Transcript of NAE President Charles M. Vest's address at the 2011 National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting in Washington DC on October 16, 2011

Speaker: Charles M. Vest (National Academy of Engineering)