Download PDF Engineering Achievements September 1, 2000 Volume 30 Issue 3/4 Articles In This Issue A 21st Century Renaissance Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorGeorge M. C. Fisher 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 future. And ... Great Achievements and Grand Challenges Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorWm. A. Wulf Poised as we are between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it is the perfect moment to reflect on the accomplishments of engineers in the last century and ponder the challenges facing them in the next. This past February, working with the engineering professional societies, the NAE ... Digits of Pi: Barriers and Enablers for Women in Engineering Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorSheila E. Widnall Engineering must welcome women or risk becoming marginalized as other fields seek out and make a place for them. In a recent seminar with faculty colleagues, we were discussing the information content of a string of numbers. The assertion was made that the quantity of information equaled the ... Science, Technology, and Military Experimentation, Editorial Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorAnita K. Jones Maintaining a military advantage based on superior technology has been and will continue to be a keystone of U.S. military strategy. For that reason, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) funds a science and technology (S&T) program. For decades, entirely new military capabilities have ... Editorial - Toward Equilibrium Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorJohn H. Gibbons Years ago I was fascinated by an antique that was highly prized by my great aunt. It was a songbird in a gilded cage that when wound up would move about gracefully and sing a lovely tune. It was crafted in the latter part of the 19th century, a time when many thought of the Newtonian world as ...
A 21st Century Renaissance Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorGeorge M. C. Fisher 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 future. And ...
Great Achievements and Grand Challenges Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorWm. A. Wulf Poised as we are between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it is the perfect moment to reflect on the accomplishments of engineers in the last century and ponder the challenges facing them in the next. This past February, working with the engineering professional societies, the NAE ...
Digits of Pi: Barriers and Enablers for Women in Engineering Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorSheila E. Widnall Engineering must welcome women or risk becoming marginalized as other fields seek out and make a place for them. In a recent seminar with faculty colleagues, we were discussing the information content of a string of numbers. The assertion was made that the quantity of information equaled the ...
Science, Technology, and Military Experimentation, Editorial Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorAnita K. Jones Maintaining a military advantage based on superior technology has been and will continue to be a keystone of U.S. military strategy. For that reason, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) funds a science and technology (S&T) program. For decades, entirely new military capabilities have ...
Editorial - Toward Equilibrium Friday, September 1, 2000 AuthorJohn H. Gibbons Years ago I was fascinated by an antique that was highly prized by my great aunt. It was a songbird in a gilded cage that when wound up would move about gracefully and sing a lovely tune. It was crafted in the latter part of the 19th century, a time when many thought of the Newtonian world as ...