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Letter From The President
Letter From The President
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Engineering, for its part, solves problems for people and society, ranging from such handy innovations as displaying room temperature on your cell phone to devising ways to protect buildings against earthquakes to the enormous complexity involved in putting a man on the Moon. Engineering solutions encompass airplanes and automobiles, information technology and communications, environment and health systems, sustainability and energy sufficiency, computers and space missions, and much more.
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Meeting the Grand Challenges -- making fly faster, more comfortably, and more safely. solar energy economical, engineering better medicines, and providing access to clean water, among others -- will make the planet not only "a more techOver the past 50 years, engineering has transformed our lives literally every day nologically advanced and connected place, but also a more sustainable, safe, and it will continue to do so going forward, utilizing new capabilities, creating healthy, and joyous place -- in other words, a better place." The Grand Challenges new applications, and providing ever-expanding services to people.
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