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.

Over a 20-month period, an ad hoc committee will explore a set of questions about the career choices of engineering graduates and those employed as engineers with non-engineering degrees in the United States in order to provide a comprehensive view of the career pathways and related decision ...

Weekly WTOP & WFED radio features highlighting engineering innovations and stories that add technical context to issues in the news.

A Contest in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the National Academy of Engineering

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.

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 ...

This project explains what technological literacy is, why it’s important, and what’s being done to improve it.

This study explores the status and prospects for K-12 engineering education in the United States.

The goal of the project is to promote broad implementation by the engineering community of the findings and recommendations presented in the 2008 NAE report, Changing the Conversation.

An effort to enhance technological literacy, attract more young people to careers in engineering and contribute to the sustainment of the national capacity for technological innovation

This study aimed to encourage coordinated, consistent, and effective communication by the engineering community about the role, importance, and career potential of engineering.

NAE projects focusing on Technological Literacy and K-12 education address important issues raised by the pervasive role of engineering and technology in society.

One-day symposium for state education leaders in mathematics, science, assessment, and curriculum to learn about and discuss technological literacy.

This study considers approaches for assessing technological literacy in teachers, students, and out-of-school adults.