2017 Annual Report

2017 Annual Report NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING ENGINEERING THE FUTURE 1 Letter from the President 3 In Service to the Nation 3 Mission Statement 4 NAE Strategic Plan Implementation 6 NAE Annual Meeting 6 2017 NAE Annual Meeting Forum: Autonomy on Land and Sea and in the Air and Space 7 Program Reports 7 Postsecondary Engineering Education Understanding the Engineering Education–Workforce Continuum Engagement of Engineering Societies in Undergraduate Engineering Education The Supply Chain for Middle-Skill Jobs: Education, Training, and Certification Pathways Engineering Technology Education 8 PreK–12 Engineering Education LinkEngineering Educator Capacity Building in PreK–12 Engineering Education 9 Media Relations 10 Grand Challenges for Engineering NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program Global Grand Challenges Summit 12 Center for Engineering Ethics and Society (CEES) Becoming the Online Resource Center for Ethics in Engineering and Science Workshop on Overcoming Challenges to Infusing Ethics in the Development of Engineers Integrated Network for Social Sustainability 14 Diversity of the Engineering Workforce EngineerGirl Program 15 Frontiers of Engineering Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers—Gilbreth Lectures 17 Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation Adaptability of the Engineering and Technical Workforce 18 A New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research 18 Connector Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations 19 Microbiomes of the Built Environment 20 2017 NAE Awards Recipients 22 2017 New Members and Foreign Members 25 NAE Anniversary Members 30 A Message from NAE Vice President Corale Brierley 31 2017 Honor Roll of Donors 31 Einstein Society 34 Golden Bridge Society 36 Heritage Society 37 Annual Giving Societies 37 Catalyst Society 37 Rosette Society 37 Challenge Society 38 Charter Society 39 Lifetime Giving Societies 41 Other Individual Donors 43 Tributes 44 Loyalty Society 45 Foundations, Corporations, and Other Organizations 48 National Academy of Engineering Fund 49 Statements of Financial Position 50 Statement of Activities 52 Statements of Cash Flows 53 Notes to Financial Statements 71 Officers 71 Councillors 72 Staff 72 NAE Publications Letter from the President In 2017 the National Academy of Engineering invested substantially in dynamic efforts to engage and prepare the next generation of engineers who will tackle the major challenges facing the world. The NAE’s 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering are the template for innovative programs to achieve these goals, and they featured prominently in initiatives and events on a grand scale this year. In July the NAE hosted the 3rd Global Grand Challenges for Engineering Summit (http://ggcs2017.org/), jointly organized with the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. It was the largest program in NAE history, with some 900 attendees, more than half of whom were university students from nearly 150 universities in the three countries. A variety of activities engaged students throughout the event. For the Student Day Business Model Competition, five teams of undergraduate students from each host country presented ideas and business C. D. Mote, Jr. models for addressing one or more of the Grand Challenges for Engineering. The first, second, and third place winning teams represented each of the three countries, taking home prizes ranging from $10,000 to $25,000. University students also had the opportunity to present posters related to research on the Grand Challenges, and undergraduate and graduate winners were chosen in three categories—originality, impact, and design. Finally, Bethany Gordon, an engineering student at the University of Virginia, won a unique podcast competition looking at how engineers can improve people’s lives through the Grand Challenges for Engineering. In addition, in a collaborative arrangement with NAE member Dean Kamen, the inaugural FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition (FIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”) drew high school student teams representing 157 countries. The contest asked participants to take on the NAE Grand Challenge of “providing access to clean water.” The summit’s principal sponsors—Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and Shell—helped to ensure a positive experience for all attendees before, during, and after this major event. Representatives from each sponsor participated as speakers, judges, and recruiters. We also received substantial support from NAE members G. Wayne Clough and Ming Hsieh. All these sponsors together made the summit a transformational success. Given the interest young engineers have expressed in the Grand Challenges for Engineering, including their participation in the three global summits, engaging them in the Grand Challenges Scholars Program has the best potential for galvanizing them to work on such large-scale engineering problems. The program is also designed to prepare students for the multicultural, multidisciplinary, socially conscious global engagement needed for 21st century engineering, through an educational supplement that is adaptable to any university engineering education program and enhances students’ competencies in five areas not usually included in an engineering curriculum: • Research/creativity – Mentored research or creative experience on a Grand Challenge-like topic; talent competency • Multicultural understanding – Understanding cultures, preferably through a multicultural experience, to ensure cultural acceptance of proposed solutions; cultural competency • Multidisciplinarity – Understanding multidisciplinary engineering system solutions, developed through engagement; multidisciplinary competency • Viable business/entrepreneurship – Understanding, preferably developed through experience, the necessity of a viable business model for solution implementation; business competency • Social consciousness – Understanding that solutions should serve primarily people and society— service learning promotes social consciousness; social consciousness competency 1 To help GCSP administrators, faculty, and students share information and collaborate with others around the world, the NAE’s GCSP Network Office held the program’s inaugural annual meeting in November. About 165 people attended—administrators, faculty, students, alumni, industry and federal agency representatives—to exchange lessons learned and ideas about ways to overcome institutional challenges, explore synergy with aligned organizations and industry, build the GCSP community and movement, and enhance global connections. The NAE annual meeting in October explored autonomy on land and sea and in the air and space. This theme was selected because it is global, multicultural, and highly multidisciplinary, relying on communications, artificial intelligence, sensors, virtual and enhanced reality, big data, information technology, security, and so forth. And because autonomy moved from its creators directly to the marketplace—abruptly and powerfully jumping past all issues in between—it is coming fast, coming big, and coming globally with potentially disruptive consequences. The distinguished speakers and panelists at the annual meeting addressed societal and ethical perspectives on autonomy as well as opportunities and challenges. Philanthropy continues to support about a third of the NAE’s work. NAE members, friends, foundations, and corporations committed more than $5.3M overall, including over $1.6M for the NAE Independent Fund (NAE’s annual fund) in 2017. The Chairman’s Challenge spurred giving challenges for 6 additional sections and successfully concluded in 2017; see page 40 for the results. The total also includes, among others, a very generous $2M pledge from John F. McDonnell over 5 years for EngineerGirl to significantly expand its activity, and Chevron’s $250,000 grant to sustain LinkEngineering. In addition, NAE members Dale Compton and Charles Reed, who both passed away recently, included provisions in their estates to help develop the NAE’s future. Their generosity and recognition of the contributions of the NAE are deeply moving and appreciated sincerely. Looking ahead, almost every NAE program and membership activity hinges on private funds— and increasingly so—whether directly or indirectly. That is why we will significantly expand fundraising activity for gifts and grants from individuals, corporations, and foundations in support of the NAE’s mission and signature programs over the next several years. As part of our endeavor, planning has begun for a comprehensive fundraising campaign with the assistance of a development consulting firm to appreciably boost our ability to serve the nation and the world and build support for the NAE’s endowment and key strategic programs. This is imperative to ensure the NAE’s capacity to carry out its mission. Work on developing the case for support and the campaign plan, with inputs from the Council, and a small group of academy members and supporters, began in 2017. I will share more news about this throughout the year. I am most grateful for your thoughtful engagement and generous support of the Academy. The following pages present reports of the NAE’s work in 2017, pursuing our mission to advance the well-being of the nation. C. D. Mote, Jr. President 2 NAE In Service to the Nation Every day our nation faces questions related to engineering and technology. What does the nation need to do to prosper in the global economy? What is the

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