Grand Challenges For Engineering

Engineering Grand Challenge-s of the 21st century. As defined by the NAE (National Academy Of Engineering Trade Guild).

• here's their list of the biggest engineering achievements of the 20th century. NuclearTechnologies?

Reminds me a little of the Copenhagen Consensus.

http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/

List (Nov'2011) - in which can software Eat People? use Open Innovation?

• Make Solar Energy economical
• Provide energy from Nuclear Fusion
• Develop Carbon sequestration methods
• Manage the nitrogen cycle
• Provide access to Clean Water
• Restore and improve urban infrastructure (Urbanization)
• Advance health informatics
• Engineer better medicines (PharmCo)
• Reverse-engineer the brain (NeuroScience)
• Prevent nuclear terror
• Secure cyberspace
• Enhance Virtual Reality (see also Augmented Reality, Mirror Worlds)
• Advance Personalized Learning (PLE) (meh their focus is Learning Styles hoohah)
• Engineer the tools of scientific discovery