Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation

Program Status

In Progress

Last updated

July 25, 2019

Events

Nov32017

Nov 03 2017

NAE Workshop on the Adaptability of the U.S. Engineering and Technical Workforce

On November 2 and 3 2017, over 80 experts gathered in Washington DC for a workshop on Preparing the Engineering and Technical Workforce for Adaptability and Resilience to Change . This National Academy of Engineering workshop examined a number of aspects of workforce adaptability and ...

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Jun162015

John Tracy to give Keynote Address on Making Value for Society
NAE project will be topic of keynote address at upcoming ASEE meeting.
Seattle, Washington
May42015

Forum on Making Value for America
Manufacturing Renaissance, the Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago will hold a forum on the National Academy of Engineering study: Making Value for America: Embracing the Future of Manufacturing, Technology, and Work
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Featured Resources

Making Value for America

Making Value for America presents a roadmap to enhance the nation's capacity to pursue opportunities and adapt to transforming value chains.
Making Value for America: Report in Brief
Making Value for America: Summary Report
Making Value: Integrating Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation to Thrive in the Changing Global Economy

Manufacturing is in a period of dramatic transformation. But in the United States, public and political dialogue is simplistically focused almost entirely on the movement of certain manufacturing jobs overseas to low-wage countries.

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MVA National Conference

Understanding and Reversing the Decline of Business Creation Panel video.

Panelists discuss the decline of business creation and how to reverse it.

At-a-Glance

Objectives

Globalization, developments in technology, and new business models are transforming the way products and services are conceived, designed, made, and distributed. In response, the Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation Initiative was launched to examine the challenges and opportunities presented by these shifts and highlight the transformation in manufacturing from making things to making value. The Initiative consist of a multi-year portfolio of activities—including workshops, symposia, and consensus studies.

Transformational changes are occurring in US-based manufacturing, design, and innovation. US manufacturing employment has significantly changed due to increasing globalization, industry restructuring, and automation of the factory floor. At the same time, innovations in technologies and business models—such as additive manufacturing, robotics, biotechnology, and “servitization”—present important opportunities for new value creation in the United States. In 2011 NAE launched the Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation Initiative to understand the effects of these changes on US prosperity and employment and their implications for business practices, research, education, and public policy.

Featured Speeches

Dr. Charles M. Vest

What Are We Waiting For? Sputnik? An Explanation of Today’s World? New Ways of Working? National Strategy?

Date	September 30, 2012
Subject	Engineers: The Next Generation Sputnik? An Explanation of Today’s World? New Ways of Working? National Strategy?

Transcript of NAE President Charles M. Vest's address at the 2012 National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting in Washington DC on September 30 2012

Speaker: Charles M. Vest (National Academy of Engineering)

Recent Projects

Completed

Making Value for America Study

Concerned about the challenges facing US manufacturing--and excited about the prospect of dramatic change in this sector--the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) undertook a study to identify best practices along the manufacturing value chain and to recommend public- and private-sector actions to make the United States an effective environment for value creation. The NAE was joined in supporting this study by Gordon E. Moore, Robert A. Pritzker and the Robert Pritzker Family Foundation, Jonathan J. Rubinstein, Edward Horton, and by a number of US companies--Boeing, Cummins, IBM, Qualcomm, Rockwell Collins, and Xerox.

Latest UpdateJuly 25, 2019

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