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  • Advances in synthetic biology and machine learning enable new engineering approaches to enhance plastic degradation via enzymes. Plastics, widely used for their low cost and durability, pose a grand environmental challenge. Every year, more than 380 million tonnes of plastics are produced ...
    AuthorRoss R. Klauer, Mark A. Blenner, and Kevin V. Solomon
    Release dateWinter 2022
    Volume52
    Number4
  • 3D printing has the potential to produce many needed items in low-resource settings, where lack of infrastructure and weak manufacturing capacity make local production impractical, and high tariffs, unreliable supply chains, and economic instability make importation costly. With lower costs and ...
    AuthorMatthew P. Rogge, Melissa A. Menke, and William Hoyle
    Release dateFall 2017
    Volume47
    Number3
  • Technology, humanism, and cross-disciplinary cooperation can combine to take us farther than we dreamed we could go. Good afternoon, and congratulations to our new members. I know you will find your experience with the NAE rewarding. Few organizations have so great an effect on the ...
    AuthorGeorge M. C. Fisher
    Release dateFall 2000
    Volume30
    Number3/4
  • The events of September 11 challenged the future of our heavily engineered environment and the future of the engineering profession. An attack on our nation . . . thousands dead . . . 20 percent of downtown office space in Manhattan damaged or destroyed . . . more than 40 percent of the ...
    AuthorRobert Prieto
    Release dateSpring 2002
    Volume32
    Number1
  • Engineers are packaged as problem solvers rather than creators and innovators addressing grand challenges. The best-intentioned diversity-recruitment initiatives by engineering colleges nationwide have had little success in increasing access to the richly textured future afforded by careers ...
    AuthorJacquelyn F. Sullivan
    Release dateSummer 2006
    Volume36
    Number2
  •   Human trafficking (HT) is a horrific and seemingly intractable problem that is typically construed as falling beyond the purview of engineers. This paper argues that engineering systems analysis can produce important insights concerning HT operations and ways to reduce its frequency. ...
    AuthorJonathan P. Caulkins, Matt Kammer-Kerwick, Renata Konrad, Kayse Lee Maass, Lauren Martin, and Thomas Sharkey
    Release dateFall 2019
    Volume49
    Number3
  • Urgent and continued work in frugal engineering and manufacturing is essential for addressing technosocioeconomic inequity in the United States. Traditionally, problems arising from lack of access to basic human needs such as food insecurity, affordable health care are thought of as global ...
    AuthorAjay P. Malshe, Dereje Agonafer, Salil Bapat, and Jian Cao
    Release dateSpring 2021
    Volume51
    Number1
  • The NAE and INCE Foundation have engaged the noise control engineering community to advance efforts to improve noise in the United States. The year 2020 marks 15 years since kick-off of the Technology for a ­Quieter America (TQA) project (figure 1), a joint effort of the National ...
    AuthorEric W. Wood and George C. Maling Jr.
    Release dateSummer 2021
    Volume51
    Number2
  • The United States is trading the long-term health of U.S. research and education for the appearance of short-term security. William Wulf I assume that all of you have read or heard a discussion of Tom Friedman’s book (2005), The World Is Flat. But just in case, I’ll ...
    AuthorWm. A. Wulf
    Release dateFall 2005
    Volume35
    Number3
  • It is an exciting time for K–12 science and engineering education in the United States; a new vision for teaching science and engineering promises to transform the experiences of students in all grades across the country. This vision, articulated in a new report from the National Research ...
    AuthorHeidi A. Schweingruber, Helen Quinn, Thomas E. Keller, and Greg Pearson
    Release dateSpring 2013
    Volume43
    Number1
  • Better cybersecurity is an admirable aspiration. But aspirations, as such, are not actionable. Calling for better cybersecurity does not give any hint of what actions should be taken, and by whom, to improve the situation. The goal of this paper is to break the challenge of improved ...
    AuthorDavid D. Clark
    Release dateFall 2019
    Volume49
    Number3
  • Common to the many definitions of resilience in the literature and in policy statements is the notion that resilience is the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. The performance of the built environment and the support of ...
    AuthorBruce R. Ellingwood, John W. van de Lindt, and Therese P. McAllister
    Release dateSummer 2019
    Volume49
    Number2
  • Unique scale-up approaches are needed to accelerate the development of cost-effective DAC technologies. Energy touches, directly or indirectly, every aspect of daily life. As the global population increases, so does the demand for energy. The challenge is to provide affordable, reliable, and ...
    AuthorRodrigo Blanco Gutierrez
    Release dateWinter 2021
    Volume51
    Number4
  • Leveraging advances in commercial technologies and maintaining a well-balanced, adequately funded S&T program will be necessary to retaining our technological edge. As the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) moves into the twenty-first century, its science and technology (S&T) program ...
    AuthorDelores M. Etter
    Release dateSummer 2001
    Volume31
    Number2
  • Global pandemics result from an emerging infection that causes notable disease in many countries in different parts of the world. At the margins—exactly how many countries and continents and with what degree of disease severity—public health authorities may dicker over the definition ...
    AuthorHarvey V. Fineberg
    Release dateWinter 2020
    Volume50
    Number4
  • An engineer's personal experiences form the basis for an innovative educational program that uses concrete, visual problems to teach abstract math concepts to students in inner-city public schools. Many are the paths to a successful educational career, and they vary from country to ...
    AuthorMario Salvadori
    Release dateSummer 1997
    Volume27
    Number2
  • Smart city implementation involves physical infrastructures, digital IT, policies, financing, community engagement, and partnerships that must be created and sustained in concert with each other. The smart city concept was born out of a global need to respond to a coupled challenge of ...
    AuthorAnne S. Kiremidjian and Michael Lepech
    Release dateSpring 2023
  • A significant challenge in the diagnosis and management of athletes and military personnel with concussion is the diverse background, training,  clinical management approach and outcomes used by the multidisciplinary team of clinicians involved. Further challenging the continuity of care ...
    AuthorJay L. Alberts
    Release dateSpring 2016
    Volume46
    Number1
  • In 1973 the German philosopher Hans Jonas posed the central ethical test for modern technological society. He observed that previously the “good and evil about which action had to care lay close to the act, either in the praxis itself or in its immediate reach,” whereas a new ...
    AuthorDaniel Metlay
    Release dateWinter 2021
    Volume50
    NumberS
  • The current US healthcare “system” is not meeting the needs of patients or society. This is not a novel conclusion, but the need for change has been made much more salient by covid-19. What is the biggest lesson of the pandemic? The US healthcare delivery system, social systems, and ...
    AuthorDenis A. Cortese and Curtiss B. Cook
    Release dateWinter 2020
    Volume50
    Number4
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