Activities, Projects & Initiatives

Series of global summits for leading scientists and engineers, educators, policy leaders, students, and the public to address grand challenges.

The NAE convened a select, international committee to evaluate ideas on the greatest challenges and opportunities for engineering.

Global Grand Challenges Short Video Competition The Global Grand Challenges Summit is a major new initiative by the national academies of engineering in the UK, the US, and China. The summit will bring together leading international thinkers and innovators to explore new ...

NSF funded Partnership in International Research and Education (PIRE) grant on "Developing Low-Carbon Cities in the USA, China & India through Interdisciplinary Integration Across Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences & Public Health"

This NSF funded Phase I Climate Change Educational Partnership (CCEP) focuses on the impacts of climate change for engineered systems. The goal of the partnership is to develop a national network to catalyze, transform, and enhance education on the issues of climate change and engineered systems, including issues of governance, sustainability, justice, trust, and public engagement, to prepare current and future engineers, policymakers, and the public to meet these challenges.

This report summarizes current trends in addressing urban air pollution, profiles two U.S. and two Chinese cities, and recommends actions to enable both countries to improve urban air quality.

This study is examining the probable causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, fire, and oil spill in order to identify measures for preventing similar harm in the future.

To help solve this massive public health problem, the National Academy of Engineering with the generous support of The Grainger Foundation, offered Grainger Challenge Prizes of $1,000,000, $200,000, and $100,000 for first, second, and third place for the design and creation of a workable, ...

A joint consensus study to assist the U.S. and China in developing strategies to meet renewable energy goals, to highlight prospects for technology cooperation between countries, and to identify areas ripe for future collaboration.

This multi-year study reviewed state-of-the-art noise-control engineering, described the technological, economic and political climate for noise control, and identified gaps in research.