NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering

2006 - 2008 NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering Committee

WILLIAM PERRY
Committee Chair, (Former Secretary of Defense,  U.S. Department of Defense) Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor and Professor of Engineering, Stanford University

ALEC BROERS
Chairman, Science and Technology Select Committee, United Kingdom House of Lords

FAROUK EL-BAZ 
Research Professor and Director, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University

WESLEY HARRIS, Department Head and Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BERNADINE HEALY
Health Editor and Columnist, U.S. News & World Report

W. DANIEL HILLIS
Chairman and Co-Founder, Applied Minds, Inc.

CALESTOUS JUMA
Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard University

DEAN KAMEN
Founder and President, DEKA Research and Development Corp.

RAYMOND KURZWEIL
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.

ROBERT LANGER
Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JAIME LERNER
Architect and Urban Planner, Instituto Jaime Lerner

BINDU LOHANI
Director General and Chief Compliance Officer,  Asian Development Bank

JANE LUBCHENCO
Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University

MARIO MOLINA
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University  of California

LARRY PAGE
Co-Founder and President of Products, Google, Inc.

ROBERT SOCOLOW
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Environmental Institute J.

CRAIG VENTER
President, The J. Craig Venter Institute JACKIE YING Executive Director, Institute of Bioengineering  and Nanotechnology