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2013 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 50th Anniversary Initiative – Video Contest 4 Program Reports 4 Engineering Education Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) 2- and 4-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Transfer Student Pilot Engineering Technology Education Barriers and Opportunities in Completing Two- and Four- Year STEM Degrees Understanding the Engineering Education–Workforce Continuum Workshop: Educate to Innovate: What and How? 7 Technological Literacy Integrated STEM Education Guiding Implementation of K–12 Engineering Education 7 Public Understanding of Engineering Committee on Implementing Engineering Messages Media Relations Public Relations Grand Challenges for Engineering 10 Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society (CEES) Practical Guidance on Science and Engineering Ethics Education Ethics and Sustainability in Engineering Online Ethics Center Educational Partnership on Climate Change, Engineered Systems, and Society Energy Ethics in Science and Engineering Education 12 Diversity of the Engineering Workforce EngineerGirl Website Engineer Your Life 2013 NAE Annual Meeting Forum: Importance of Engineering Talent to the Prosperity and Security of the Nation 13 Frontiers of Engineering Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers—Gilbreth Lectures 15 Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation Making Value for America Project 16 Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding 17 Systems Engineering for Improving Health 18 Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations 20 2013 NAE Awards Recipients 22 2013 New Members and Foreign Associates 23 NAE Anniversary Members 28 2013 Private Contributions 30 Catalyst Society 31 Rosette Society 31 Challenge Society 32 Charter Society 33 Other Individual Donors 36 Charles M. Vest President’s Opportunity Fund 37 Tributes 37 Einstein Society 38 Golden Bridge Society 39 Heritage Society 40 Foundations, Corporations, and Other Organizations 42 National Academy of Engineering Fund Financial Report 44 Report of Independent Certified Public Accountants 49 Notes to Financial Statements 66 Officers 66 Councillors 67 Staff 67 NAE Publications Letter from the President My six-year term as president of the National Academy of Engineering began on July 1, 2013. I pledge to continue the mission of the NAE in service to the welfare of the nation and the engineering community as did my predecessor Chuck Vest. Tragically, Chuck passed away on December 12. His wise counsel was long sought by the nation at the highest levels of government, industry, universities, and the nonprofit sector, all of which he served selflessly with distinction. Chuck’s vigorous and remarkably pro- ductive life was full and appreciated deeply, and his impact on our nation and people will be lasting. I believe that three strategic issues for engineering will have significant implications for our nation’s future. They are (1) the importance of talent in our engineering workforce, C. D. Mote, Jr. (2) globalization and the global role of the NAE, and (3) the visibility and understand- ing of engineering. How these familiar issues evolve will shape our future. Talent in the engineering workforce is normally not mentioned when discussing our national prepared- ness in engineering. If the need for talent and the value placed on talent are high, talent in engineer- ing deserves priority attention. If society depends on engineering talent for its future, then ensuring a talented engineering workforce is a critical national need. However, I do not see that talent is given priority attention. Virtually every society globally is recruiting engineering talent aggressively and particularly the “in-demand” talent with current skills. Increasingly, attractive opportunities for engi- neers that offer excellent salaries, facilities, and economic growth potential are in Asia and the Middle East, and soon in Africa. In the Forum at the NAE Annual Meeting last October, a distinguished panel explored the many questions surrounding the importance of top talent in the engineering workforce to the competitiveness of the US economy and the future quality of life of US citizens. The Forum is available on the NAE website at www.fednet.net/NAE100713, and the published summary is at www. nae.edu/108332.aspx. Two NAE programs have been particularly effective at pushing the global reach of the Academy: the Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) and the Global Grand Challenges. The founding of our Frontiers of Engineering program led quickly to interest from abroad in creating bilateral FOE symposia. We now have bilateral Frontiers programs with Germany, Japan, China, India, and the EU, and a new one with Brazil in March 2014. The attendees of these symposia, half chosen by the NAE and half by the partner academy, all become alumni of our Frontiers program, who now number about 4,000. In a literal sense, the Frontiers of Engineering is leading the NAE to the global frontiers of engineering and attracting the global engineering leadership of tomorrow. This important effort is central to the mission of the NAE. The Grand Challenges for Engineering, a program initiated under president Bill Wulf and imple- mented under Chuck Vest, is also an attractor of the global engineering community and an expander of the NAE’s global reach. The Grand Challenges led to a collaboration by the national academies of the United Kingdom, the People’s Republic of China, and the United States in sponsoring the first Global Grand Challenges Summit in London in March 2013. In 2015, the Chinese Academy of Engineering will host the next Global Grand Challenges Summit, and the NAE will follow in 2017. Additionally, the deans of engineering at Duke and University of Southern California, Tom Katsouleas and Yannis Yortsos, and the president of Olin College, Rick Miller, have taken the lead on many Grand Challenge activities including establishing the Charles M. Vest NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering International Scholarships that are used to recruit international graduate students to the US for a year’s study. The Grand Challenges symposia are leading the NAE globally, attracting international attention to the Challenges, and catalyzing international partnerships. 1 Representing the essence of engineering as “things,” rather than as creation, maintains public confu- sion about engineering. Engineers create, or to paraphrase the late Theodore von Kármán, “engineering creates what never was.” The use of things to describe engineering reinforces the misplaced impression that things are the essence of engineering. The value proposition for engineering is its creative solutions serving the welfare of humanity and the needs of society, which clarifies that things are the vehicle but not the destination of engineering. All major engineering prizes have long recognized that the most eminent engineering achievements are contributions to humanity. This distinction is important to the next generation, who wish to serve people and societal needs. This brings us to the strategic message for the NAE’s 50-year Anniversary celebration which was kicked off at the October 2013 NAE Annual Meeting and will culminate at the end of 2014, a 15-month year. Our Semicentennial Celebration Year explores the value proposition for engineering. We will highlight the importance of the nexus of engineering creations, people, and society over a century, starting with the founding of the NAE in 1964 and continuing 100 years to 2064. We will highlight this nexus through essays and a global video competition. Essays, written for a public audience, will showcase engineering’s service to the quality of life of all Americans and the needs of society, both as documented in the past and as projected into the future. The essays and subsequent discussions about them may provide a new point of reference for describ- ing the value of engineering to the public and for answering, more effectively, the question “what is engineering?” The national video competition asks contestants to highlight this nexus in a one- to two- minute video that illustrates the essential role of engineering in quality of life for the nation and the world. Pertinent information is provided on the website www.e4uvideocontest.org. The 2014 Annual Meeting program will feature presentations on both the essays and the videos, and the awarding of prizes along with other anniversary celebrations. The semicentennial year provides an opportunity to highlight how the future quality of life of all Americans and the needs of our society are tied to engineering. The future of engineering, and con- sequently its service to people and society, depends on making this point to the public. As Abraham Lincoln counseled, “public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.” Engineering needs the public sentiment that engineering creations serve the welfare of humanity and the needs of society. Practitioners of engineering must carry this understand- ing to the public. The independent programs of the NAE depend greatly on private philanthropy. We are grateful to Peter Farrell for his matching gift challenge to the classes of 2012 and 2013 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 its contributions to the well-being of the nation. Your