Saturday, February 16, 2008

Grand Challenges for Engineering

see: Introduction to the Grand Challenges for Engineering, on the National Academy of Engineering's site. Fourteen challenges were selected.

Picking a big problems to address is a great way to focus research. There are several worthy big problems here. In my personal opinion, a few are too focused on contemporary hot buttons, and are more tactical than strategic. It'll be interesting to watch which of these challenges inspire enough contribution to make significant progress.

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