Nations gathered at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow (https://ukcop26.org) last month to grapple with the devastating global impacts of climate change. How we minimize the impacts going forward and how we adapt to the changes in ways equitable to all humans and other living things that share this ...

The NAE typically dedicates the winter issue of The Bridge to papers from the annual US Frontiers of Engineering symposium, held in September each year (because of the covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 US FOE was rescheduled to February 25–26, 2021). We are delighted to be part of this issue, which ...

Capability gaps must be addressed to ensure astronauts’ safety and performance during extravehicular activity on missions to Mars.

The benefits, the opportunities, the challenges, and the risks of space exploration increase by orders of magnitude when sending humans beyond Earth’s ...

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 clean ...

Modeling showed that opening for in-person instruction would actually be safer than moving fully online.

Government response to the covid-19 pandemic has been chaotic worldwide. Past experience was no longer a reliable guide as decision makers were faced with unfamiliar trade-offs and ...

A knowledge base of known adversarial behaviors can help organizations prepare for, mitigate, and prevent threats to industrial control systems.

Industrial control systems (ICS), the foundation of the nation’s critical infrastructure, are increasingly the target of sophisticated cyber ...

New tools in control theory, optimization theory, AI, and machine learning are being developed to enhance grid reliability.

The shift toward a more sustainable energy future has led to a number of critical challenges in how to reliably and efficiently operate the electric power grid. Supply and ...

The technological promise of DAC will be largely irrelevant to the climate crisis if the question “who pays?” cannot be resolved.

Direct air capture (DAC) is a key climate technology with the potential to make major contributions to stabilizing atmospheric CO₂ levels (McQueen et ...

Biologic peptides are safe, effective alternatives to current synthetic agrochemical pesticides.

A stable and affordable food supply is critical to the foundation and growth of any nation’s economic prosperity. In the United States, agricultural productivity has steadily increased since the ...

Residential photovoltaic systems can provide affordable, much-needed electricity for thousands of Native American families that lack grid-tied electricity.

Native American tribes have historically developed fossil fuel and ­mineral resources on their lands to provide electricity to major US ...

We are working to develop systematic, comprehensive assessment instruments for our engineering innovation and entrepreneurship training program.

Over the past several decades, universities in the United States and abroad have seen exponential growth in training programs in innovation and ...

RON LATANISION (RML): We’re delighted to talk with you, Janet. For this issue of The Bridge, featuring selected papers from the US Frontiers of Engineering symposium, and coming on the heels of the FOE’s 25th anniversary last year, we’d like to explore with you the origin of the ...

Inspired by the name of this quarterly, this column reflects on the practices and uses of engineering and its influences as a cultural enterprise.

Engineering education in the United States has undergone periods of reform for many years, often in response to reports predicting a loss of ...