Engineering Responses to Climate Change Fri, September 24, 2021 NAE President John Anderson sat down to talk about the contributions engineers — and NAE in particular — can make to mitigating and adapting to climate change. Read More
NAS to sell J. Erik Jonsson Center in Woods Hole MA Thu, September 23, 2021 The NAS has listed the Jonsson Center for sale. Purchased in 1975, it was named in honor of NAE member J. Erik Jonsson, co-founder of Texas Instruments and a mayor of Dallas. Read More
Early computer developments revisited Thu, September 23, 2021 From Yale Today, Sept 9, under P.S., an amusing story of a computer bug and its link to Grace Hopper, one of the very early women members of the NAE. Read More
Biden Names 20 National Academies Members to PCAST Wed, September 22, 2021 President Biden announced the members of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), 20 of whom are also members of NAS, NAE, and NAM. PCAST is the sole body of external advisers that makes science, technology, and innovation policy recommendations to the president and ... Read More
US Innovation and Competition Act will ensure continued US leadership Mon, September 20, 2021 Jared Cohn (NAE), Mary Sue Coleman (NAM) and Robert Conn (NAE) weigh in on congressional debate on increasing the federal investment in research and innovation. From The Hill. Read More
EngineerGirl Announces 2021 Class of Student Ambassadors Tue, September 14, 2021 The National Academy of Engineering today announced the new class of the EngineerGirl Ambassadors program. The 24 new ambassadors will participate in a yearlong program designed to build leadership skills in female high school students by helping them promote engineering to younger students in ... Read More
We Must Never Forget Fri, September 10, 2021 The presidents of the National Academies join the nation in commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In a statement, they said, “We must never forget that fateful September day, nor how the country came together as one in response.” Read More
Gender Participation in STEMM Research Careers Mon, August 23, 2021 An interesting new analysis of individuals embarking on research careers has been presented by Ludo Waltman and coworkers looking at about 6 million researchers in the huge SCOPUS database. Read More
The Real Story of Pixar Thu, August 12, 2021 In a new book from MIT Press and an article in IEEE Spectrum, NAE member Alvy Ray Smith gives his account of the famous story of Pixar--snatching victory from the jaws of defeat time and again--which involves a who’s who of NAE members, including Ed Catmull, Rob Cook and Steve Jobs. Read More
National Academy of Engineering Introduces New Suite of Initiatives: Focus on People, Systems, and Culture Tue, August 10, 2021 The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is launching a new programs portfolio as part of its 2021-26 Strategic Plan, set to release later this month. The new programs target interlinked objectives across the guiding themes of people, systems, and culture. Read More
2021 Mirzayan Fellowship Class Announced Fri, August 06, 2021 The Policy and Global Affairs Division announced the 2021 class of fellows of the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program. Read More
Watch the NAE-GRP Offshore Energy Colloquium: Lessons (Sometimes) Learned and Often Forgotten Mon, August 02, 2021 The Speaker for this event was The Honorable Donald Winter, NAE, 74th Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Chair of the NAE Council, and Chair of the National Academies’ Committee on the Analysis of Causes of the Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Fire, and Oil Spill to Identify Measures to Prevent Similar ... Read More
New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Announces New Members Thu, July 29, 2021 New Voices, an initiative of the National Academies, announced its new cohort of members. For the next two years, these 22 mid-career experts will have the opportunity to bring their collective ideas about critical and emerging interdisciplinary issues to the work of the National Academies. Read More
Engineering Around the World Thu, July 29, 2021 The NAE celebrates its international connections through its 299 international members and through the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences—CAETS. Read More
NAE releases video of joint CAE, RAE, NAE virtual seminar on engineering responses to COVID 19 Wed, July 28, 2021 This second event in the series addressed how engineers sought to limit exposure to the virus and accelerate the dissemination of vaccines through the application of both established and novel technologies. Read More
NAE Member Jeff Bezos blasts into space Tue, July 20, 2021 Jeff Bezos blasted off Tuesday, becoming the second entrepreneur in just over a week to reach space aboard his own spacecraft. The flight was a great personal achievement and for his company Blue Origin, but did elicit grousing on twitter about ‘personal’ rockets. Read More
The Global Positioning System (GPS): Creating Satellite Beacons in Space, Engineers Transformed Daily Life on Earth Tue, July 13, 2021 The GPS is a modern engineering marvel that provides simple, fundamental, and useful knowledge of ones exact location. A new article in the journal Engineering describes its history through the recollections of 2003 Draper Prize winner and NAE member Brad Parkinson. Read More
Cato T. Laurencin Receives Prestigious Spingarn Medal from NAACP Tue, July 06, 2021 NAE member Cato T. Laurencin has been awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal by the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. The medal is presented for the “highest or noblest achievement” by an African American. Laurencin is also a NAS and NAM member. Read More
Innovative Early-Career Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2021 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Wed, June 23, 2021 Eighty-three of the nation’s brightest early-career engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 27th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines ... Read More
NAE Awards the 2021 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research Wed, June 16, 2021 Two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants of $30,000 have been awarded to attendees of the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2020 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, which was held virtually in February 2021, after being postponed last year. Read More