Annual Report

2012 Annual Report NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING ENGINEERING THE FUTURE 1 Letter from the President 3 In Service to the Nation 3 Mission Statement 4 Program Reports 4 Engineering Education Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Real World Engineering Education (RWEE) 2-Year and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer Student Pilot Principal Investigators (PIs) Garnering Useful Instruction on Developing [Project] Effectiveness (PI GUIDE) 2012 NAE Annual Meeting Forum—Educating Engineers: Preparing 21st Century Leaders in the Context of New Modes of Learning Role of Community Colleges in STEM Education 6 Technological Literacy Integrated STEM Education 6 Public Understanding of Engineering Committee on Implementing Effective Messages Changing the Conversation: Building the Community Media Relations Public Relations Grand Challenges for Engineering 9 Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society Educational Partnership on Climate Change, Engineered Systems, and Society Practical Guidance on Science and Engineering Ethics Education Energy Ethics in Science and Engineering Education Energy Ethics Video Challenge 10 Diversity of the Engineering Workforce EngineerGirl Website Engineer Your Life Capitalizing on the Diversity of the Science and Engineering Workforce in Industry 12 Frontiers of Engineering Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers—Gilbreth Lectures 14 Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation Committee on Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation Making Value Workshop 15 Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding 16 Protecting the Natural Soundscapes of America’s National Parks 16 Systems Engineering for Improving Health 17 The Emerging Field of Synthetic Biology: Dialogues among Six Academies 18 STEM Workforce Needs for National Defense 20 2012 NAE Awards Recipients 22 2012 New Members and Foreign Associates 23 NAE Anniversary Members 28 2012 Private Contributions 30 Einstein Society 31 Golden Bridge Society 32 Heritage Society 33 Catalyst Society 33 Rosette Society 34 Challenge Society 34 Charter Society 35 Other Individual Donors 38 Foundations, Corporations, and Other Organizations 40 National Academy of Engineering Fund Financial Report 42 Report of Independent Certified Public Accountants 47 Notes to Financial Statements 67 Officers 67 Councillors 68 Staff 68 NAE Publications Letter from the President It has been my honor and privilege to serve as president of the National Academy of Engineering since July 1, 2007, and, as I contemplate the close of my tenure on June 30, 2013, I look back at a time of challenges and accomplishments for the nation, the engineering community, and the NAE. Personally, it has been a very rewarding experi- ence and I want to express my appreciation to all those individuals within and without the NAE who have contributed enormously to advance the welfare of the nation and the engineering community these past nearly 6 years. One thing that the outgoing leader of an important organization values above all else is to be succeeded by a deeply respected new leader. That is certainly true in this instance. A nominating committee elected by Academy members, representing Charles M. Vest each section of the NAE and chaired by Illinois Institute of Technology president John Anderson, selected C.D. (Dan) Mote Jr., professor and former president of the University of Maryland, as the candidate to be the next president of the NAE. I could not be more pleased by his nomination and look forward to his election. Some of the challenges for the nation, the engineering community, and the NAE involve long-term engagement and commitment. A set of Engineering Grand Challenges was established by the NAE in 2008 that could be accomplished in the next several decades if we set our minds and resources to them and that, if met, would improve life on Earth. Engineers have worked and continue to work on solv- ing these challenges and, while much remains to be done, highlighting the challenges has galvanized numerous education and outreach programs and they have entered the national dialogue among business, government, and academia. A new generation of young people is eager to engage in them and if we as a nation provide them with the opportunities and resources, I’m sure they will succeed. We need to support their well-informed enthusiasm and efforts by funding higher education, providing research support, supporting rational immigration policy, and recognizing and rewarding their accomplishments. I think our leaders need to recognize and acknowledge more candidly to the public the nature of today’s world. It is critical to understand that, now and in the future, we must both compete and coop- erate with others all over the world—other countries, other companies, other universities, other col- leagues. Most, perhaps all, of this generation’s challenges are global. They are global because our world is straining to support 7 billion people who share a single environment, finite natural resources, and, above all, a common humanity. Sharing is the enabling mechanism—sharing of knowledge, sharing of talents, sharing of education. This is the new world of open innovation and new ways of working. We need to be preparing people for the new ways of working that are emerging. A few decades ago, people talked about brain drain, the movement of highly talented young people to the United States from other countries to study and subsequently contribute richly to our nation as faculty members, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. Today, especially for young people, we are more in an age of brain circulation, with students, entrepreneurs, and corporate personnel living and working in multiple countries during their careers. I believe we are rapidly moving toward the age of brain integration, the integration of people’s minds both with each others’ and with computers—a team of humans and computers can be connected so that, collectively, they can act more intelligently than any person, group, or computer has ever done before. Closer to home, our nation is perplexed about the future of US manufacturing and about how manufacturing jobs have changed or will change. We need to understand what the new jobs will be and how to prepare young people for them. In 2012, the NAE, with the guidance of an informal advisory 1 committee headed by NAE member and former General Motors executive Larry Burns, began developing a new framework for thinking about the nexus of manufacturing, design, and innovation. We held a major workshop of leaders from business, academia, and government, and are developing a fast-track set of research and analysis projects that we hope will be useful to the nation. In our developing framework, making value requires an integrated system of activities—understanding customers, research, development, design, manufacturing, and services—that are all necessary to deliver value to customers. Making value requires that a holistic system of these activities be developed and optimized in the national interest. I hope that our NAE work will meet three basic objectives: (1) analyze existing best practices in holistic enterprises that make value; (2) learn all we can about the likely ecosystem that will support future work, including the skills, education, infrastructure, and government policies to enable and support new work; and (3) determine the necessary and sufficient conditions to make the United States the ideal place to make value. We must remember that everything begins with education, so we continue to emphasize activities such as the Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposia that can have a direct positive impact on engineering faculty and programs. And in the Forum at the NAE Annual Meeting in October 2012, a distin- guished panel explored many facets of contemporary engineering education and provided a fresh view of the opportunities and responsibilities enabled by advances in educational modalities, including new institutional structures, new IT-based capabilities, and new approaches to team-based, hands-on learning. The Forum was recorded and is available on the NAE website at www.fednet.net/nae100112/, and a published summary is also available on the NAE website, at www.nae.edu/68564.aspx. In the spirit of information sharing both locally and globally, the NAE continues to engage in activities that expand and enhance relationships among engineering communities worldwide. The Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) symposia bring together young engineers, in the United States and internationally, who are pioneering ideas that will lead us into the future. In 2012 the NAE held its yearly US FOE meeting at GM in Warren, Michigan, and bilateral FOE meetings with India in Arlington, Virginia, sup- ported by Lockheed Martin; with Germany in Potsdam, Germany; and with Japan in Irvine, California. We are grateful to The Grainger Foundation, which has provided major funding to the FOE program and allowed us to award two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants of $30,000 each to two teams of US FOE attendees, enabling collaborations on exciting concepts identified at the meeting to take root. The independent programs of the NAE depend greatly on private philanthropy. We are grateful to Asad M. Madni and his family for their matching gift challenge to the classes of 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 to encourage donations to the NAE for discretionary purposes. We are pleased to recognize in this report all the members and friends whose generous gifts are helping the NAE to continue making meaningful contributions to the well-being of the nation. We thank them for their support. In the following pages you will find additional information about the scope and depth of work under- taken by the NAE in 2012. Our projects and reports have been conceived and executed to pursue our mission to advance the well-being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshalling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the fed- eral government on matters involving engineering and technology. Thank you. Charles M. Vest President 2 NAE In Service to the Nation Every day our nation faces questions related to engineering and technology.

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