NAE Receives $2 Million Investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation to Expand EngineerGirl Mon, July 01, 2019 The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that it is receiving a $2 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation to support and expand EngineerGirl, NAE’s premier program that brings national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for ... Read More
Innovative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2019 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Fri, June 28, 2019 87 of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 25th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Read More
National Academies Presidents Affirm the Scientific Evidence of Climate Change Tue, June 18, 2019 The National Academies Presidents are speaking out in support of the cumulative scientific evidence for climate change and the scientists who continue to advance our understanding. Read More
HostingAdvice.com story on NAE Thu, May 30, 2019 The National Academy of Engineering: Serving the U.S. Through Education, Research, and Independent Advice to the Federal Government Read More
EngineerGirl Announces 2019 Writing Contest Winners Wed, May 15, 2019 The National Academy of Engineering today announced the winners of its 2019 EngineerGirl writing competition. This year’s contest asked students in grades three to 12 to write a story that celebrates engineering design and problem solving. Read More
National Academy of Engineering Elects President, Foreign Secretary and Four Councillors Tue, May 14, 2019 The National Academy of Engineering has elected a president, foreign secretary and four members to its governing Council. All terms begin July 1, 2019. Read More
NAE Selects Five Student Teams to Represent U.S. at the 2019 Global Grand Challenges Summit Fri, May 10, 2019 The U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced five teams and an alternate, selected from more than two dozen U.S. competitors, to represent the United States in a business plan competition at the 2019 Global Grand Challenges Summit in London on September 12–18, 2019. Read More
NAE Member Receives 2018 Turing Award Thu, March 28, 2019 NAE member Geoffrey Hinton along with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun received the 2018 Turing Award for their pioneering work in artificial intelligence. Read More
NAE Awards The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research Fri, March 15, 2019 Two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants of $30,000 each have been awarded to attendees of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2018 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium. Read More
NAS, NAE, and NAM Presidents Highlight Facts on Vaccine Safety in Light of Measles Outbreaks Fri, March 08, 2019 To help counter misinformation, we created a website that provides clear, concise, and evidence-based answers to questions about vaccine safety and other commonly asked questions about health and science as identified through our partnership with Google. Read More
NAE Members Awarded 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Tue, February 12, 2019 NAE members Bradford Parkinson and James Spilker have been awarded the The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering along with Hugo FrueHauf and Richard Schwartz for their work on GPS. Read More
National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 Foreign Members Thu, February 07, 2019 The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 86 new members and 18 foreign members, announced NAE President C. D. (Dan) Mote, Jr., today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,297 and the number of foreign members to 272. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is ... Read More
A Message from the Presidents of the NAS, NAE, and NAM: Looking Ahead in 2019 Mon, February 04, 2019 As long-standing bastions of nonpartisan science and evidence, the National Academies can unite others around consensus revealed by the evidence and spur innovation in ways that no other institution can. Read More
2019 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education Awarded to Georgia Tech and Emory University Educators Tue, January 08, 2019 The National Academy of Engineering announced today that the 2019 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education will be awarded to Wendy Newstetter, Joseph Le Doux, and Paul Benkeser from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia ... Read More
Seven National Academy of Engineering Members to be Inducted into the 2019 National Inventors Hall of Fame Tue, January 08, 2019 NAE members Chieko Asakawa, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Dennis Ritchie, Edmund O. Schweitzer III, Ken Thompson, James Truchard, and David Walt to be inducted during a ceremony on May 2 in Washington, DC. Read More
Innovators of the Coronary Angioplasty Win 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize Thu, January 03, 2019 The National Academy of Engineering and Ohio University announced today that the 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize will be given to Julio Palmaz, Leonard Pinchuk, Richard Schatz, John Simpson, and Paul Yock for innovations leading to the widespread adoption of percutaneous coronary ... Read More
C. D. Mote, Jr. Receives Honorary Doctorate of Peking University Sat, December 15, 2018 Grand Challenges Scholars Program member Peking University awarded NAE president C.D. (Dan) Mote an honorary doctorate for his extensive work to collaborate with the university and China. Read More
Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Addressing Grand Challenges Tue, December 04, 2018 New National Academies report modeled, in part, on the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering, recommends strategies to evolve education, research, and practice for the environmental engineering field to advance practical, impactful solutions to these multifaceted challenges. Read More
Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering Tue, November 13, 2018 Centering science instruction around investigation and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the world around them. Current approaches to science in many classrooms do not reflect this approach and constrain the opportunities afforded to ... Read More
National Academies Report Says Sexual Harassment Is a Threat to Engineering Fri, November 02, 2018 A recent report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found that sexual harassment has broad impacts. It affects not only the women who are targeted but also bystanders and the entire research enterprise. Read More