利记sbo的大挑战学者计划寻求以解决方案为导向的学生从事跨学科工作, 研究人类最紧迫的技术挑战的合作项目.

Grand Challenge Scholars Program Application

大挑战学者计划对所有本科专业的学生开放.

Please complete the  Grand Challenge Scholars Application   to be considered for admission.

Explore the Boundaries of Knowledge

GCSP students take common courses in Arts & 在这些nae认可的竞争中发展学院合作伙伴关系和基本技能 tencies:

Talent Competency  -在大挑战类主题上的指导研究/创意经验.
Multidisciplinary Competency   -理解通过个人参与开发的工程系统解决方案的多学科性.
Entrepreneurship Competency  – understanding, preferably developed though experience, 解决方案实现的可行业务模型的必要性.
Multicultural Competency  – understanding different cultures, preferably through multicultural experiences, 确保所提出的工程解决方案在文化上被接受.
Social Consciousness Competency  -了解工程解决方案应首先服务于人和社会,反映社会意识.

这些伙伴关系和技能在一个先进的研究项目中达到高潮,该项目专注于NAE认为是21世纪人类面临的重大挑战的领域.


Challenges

Advance Personal Learning
ADVANCE PERSONALIZED LEARNING
对个人偏好和天赋的日益重视导致了更多的“个性化学习”,,根据学生的个人需求量身定制教学. 考虑到个人偏好的多样性, and the complexity of each human brain, 开发优化学习的教学方法将需要未来的工程解决方案.

Make Solar Energy Economical
MAKE SOLAR ENERGY ECONOMICAL
Currently, 太阳能提供的能源不到世界总能源的1%, but it has the potential to provide much, much more.

Enhance Virtual Reality
ENHANCE VIRTUAL REALITY
Within many specialized fields, from psychiatry to education, 虚拟现实正在成为培训从业人员和治疗患者的强大新工具, 除了越来越多地用于各种娱乐形式之外.

Reverse-Engineer the Brain
REVERSE-ENGINEER THE BRAIN
然而,许多研究都集中在创造能思考的机器——能够模仿人类智能的计算机上, 对大脑进行逆向工程可能会产生多方面的影响,远远超出人工智能的范畴,并有望在医疗保健领域取得巨大进步, manufacturing, and communication.

Engineer Better Medicines
ENGINEER BETTER MEDICINES
工程学可以使利用遗传信息的新系统的发展成为可能, sense small changes in the body, assess new drugs, 并提供疫苗,直接为每个人提供量身定制的卫生保健.

Advance Health Informatics
ADVANCE HEALTH INFORMATICS
由于计算机已可用于人类活动的各个方面, 现在有一种共识,即卫生信息学的一种系统方法——收购, management, 在卫生领域使用信息可以大大提高医疗保健的质量和效率,并对广泛的突发公共卫生事件作出反应.

Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure
RESTORE AND IMPROVE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
基础设施是支持社区的基本系统的组合, region, or country. 社会面临着使基本结构现代化的艰巨挑战,这些结构将在未来几个世纪支持我们的文明.

Secure Cyberspace
SECURE CYBERSPACE
Computer systems are involved in the management of almost all areas of our lives; from electronic communications, and data systems, 到控制交通信号灯到飞机航线. 很明显,工程需要开发创新来解决一长串的网络安全优先事项.

Provide Acsess to Clean Water
PROVIDE ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER
The world's water supplies are facing new threats; affordable, 先进的技术可以改变全世界数百万人的生活.

Provide Energy From Fusion
PROVIDE ENERGY FROM FUSION
对个人偏好和天赋的日益重视导致了更多的“个性化学习”,,根据学生的个人需求量身定制教学. 考虑到个人偏好的多样性, and the complexity of each human brain, 开发优化学习的教学方法将需要未来的工程解决方案.

Prevent Nuclear Terror
PREVENT NUCLEAR TERROR
对防止和应对核攻击的技术的需求正在增长

Manage the Nitrogen Cycle
MANAGE THE NITROGEN CYCLE
工程师可以通过更好的施肥技术和捕获和回收废物来帮助恢复氮循环的平衡.

CarbonSequestrationMethods
DEVELOP CARBON SEQUESTRATION METHODS
工程师们正在研究捕获和储存多余二氧化碳的方法,以防止全球变暖.

Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods
ENGINEER THE TOOLS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
In the century ahead, 工程师将继续与科学家合作,共同探索自然界许多未解之谜.

Find more information at NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering .


GCSP与不同的合作伙伴一起赞助了丰富的全年活动日历, including

Outdoor Adventure Center
The MI DNR's Outdoor Adventure Center

Techtown
TechTown Detroit Entrepreneurial Incubator

Humanity and Technology
The Humanity + Technology Lecture Series

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Detroit Branch
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Detroit Branch

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