NAE Grand Challenges
This Grand Challenge focuses on creating machines that can simulate human brain functions.
What is "Reverse-Engineer the Brain"?
This SDG aims to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
What is "Clean Water and Sanitation"?
This engineering field focuses on designing, constructing, and maintaining infrastructure like roads and bridges.
What is "Civil Engineering"?
A sustainable solution meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. What is this concept called?
What is "Sustainability"?
The first step in the engineering design process where the challenge is recognized.
What is "Identify the Problem"?
The goal to develop affordable and efficient solar energy solutions is known as this Grand Challenge.
What is "Make Solar Energy Economical"?
Achieving this goal focuses on ending poverty in all its forms everywhere.
What is "No Poverty"?
Engineers in this discipline design and manufacture machinery, engines, and mechanical systems.
What is "Mechanical Engineering"?
This term refers to the creation of new and improved products or solutions that advance technology and society.
What is "Innovation"?
Gathering data and studying existing solutions is known as this step.
What is "Research"?
This Grand Challenge aims to protect digital infrastructure from cyberattacks.
What is "Secure Cyberspace"?
This SDG is dedicated to promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development
What is "Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions"?
This discipline specializes in chemical production, fuel processing, and pharmaceuticals.
What is "Chemical Engineering"?
The moral principles that govern the decisions and actions of engineers.
What is a "Ethics"?
Generating a wide range of potential solutions without immediate judgment is called what?
What is "Brainstorm Solutions"?
Creating personalized medicines based on genetic information is part of this Grand Challenge.
What is "Engineer Better Medicines"?
Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all is which SDG?
What is "Affordable and Clean Energy"?
Engineers in this field work on electrical systems, circuits, and electronics, including power generation.
What is "Electrical Engineering"?
A process that seeks to replicate the energy-producing reactions in the sun, offering a potentially unlimited and clean energy source.
What is a "Fusion Energy"?
Developing a model of the solution is which step in the engineering design process?
What is "Build a Prototype"?
Developing technologies to restore and improve urban infrastructure falls under this Grand Challenge.
What is "Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure"?
This SDG seeks to combat climate change and its impacts.
What is "Climate Action"?
This engineering discipline aims to optimize complex processes and systems to improve efficiency and productivity.
What is "Industrial Engineering"?
The process where engineers provide feedback to improve ideas and ensure they meet standards is called what?
What is "Peer Review"?
This final step involves testing the prototype and making improvements based on results.
What is "Test and Refine"?