Author: National Academy of Engineering

The ability of the nation's military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued a...

Societies develop engineered systems to address or mediate climate-related problems, such as drought, sea-level rise or wildfire control; the media...

Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing...

At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in cities. Today, half the world's population is urb...

Thousands of gifted individuals, including women and underrepresented minorities, remain a disproportionally small fraction of those in science, te...

Surmounting the Barriers: Ethnic Diversity in Engineering Education is the summary of a workshop held in September 2013 to take a fresh look at the...

The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a...

The National Academy of Engineering's 2012 forum, Educating Engineers: Preparing 21st Century Leaders in the Context of New Modes of Learning, open...

Societies have sought to improve the outputs of their agricultural producers for thousands of years. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, efforts ...

STEM Integration in K-12 Education examines current efforts to connect the STEM disciplines in K-12 education. This report identifies and character...

On August 8-12, 2010 the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), convened the Colloquy on M...

The blowout of the Macondo well on April 20, 2010, led to enormous consequences for the individuals involved in the drilling operations, and for th...

Report of a Workshop on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Needs for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. De...

Robust innovation in the United States is key to a strong and competitive industry and workforce. Efforts to improve the capacity of individuals an...

This is the 18th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and ...

The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited builds on the 2000 report Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. That ground-bre...

This is the 17th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and ...

The primary federal program designed to ensure that all states are capable of participating the nation's research enterprise fall under the general...

Engineering has long gravitated toward great human ambitions: navigation of the oceans, travel to the moon and back, Earth exploration, national se...

This is the 19th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and ...

Skilled technical occupationsdefined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's de...

People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures design...