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... The National Research Council and National Academy of Engineering identified many barriers to the widespread use of AEEs in the Phase 1 report of the Committee on Advanced Engineering Environments (NRC, 1999~. Key barriers included incompatibility of software and hardware; information management systems incapable of dealing effectively with vast amounts of data; the lack of definable metrics to justify expenditures on AEEs; and the need to integrate AEE education and training into academic programs.
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... Key steps in this top-level process include the following: forming a national partnership of government, industry, and academia to take advantage of the current historic opportunity to develop AEEs forming government-industry-academia AEE partnerships by individual agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) , as an interim step for addressing agency-specific goals while a national partnership is being formed overcoming major barriers related to the integration of systems, tools, and data; information management; cultural, economic, and management issues; and education and training facilitating the transfer of new capabilities to commercially available products by developing applicationspecific tools required by government through contracts with industry whenever practical · focusing the government's AEE research and development on key objectives, such as (1)
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... Because the capabilities of AEEs are not limited to traditional engineering tasks, access to AEEs should not be limited to engineering students. 3 Just as individual corporations will require a champion to implement AEEs, engineering schools will need influential champions to integrate AEEs into the university environment and sustain support for AEEs and related interdisciplinary programs.
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... AEEs should benefit as much as possible from Internet-related technologies and applications being developed by other research programs, such as the Internet-2, the Next Generation Internet, the very high performance Backbone Network Service, and the Information Technology Research Initiative. New telecommunications and collaborative capabilities of future Internet-related technologies and applications will enable users in the same or separate locations to engage in interdependent, cooperative activities using a common computer-based environment.
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