{"id":2972,"date":"2013-05-29T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2013-05-18T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T23:20:38","slug":"21st-century-engineering-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/21st-century-engineering-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"21st century engineering challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Engineering (U.S.) identified 14 challenges in this century that need engineering solutions.\u00a0 These challenges are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9082.aspx\">Make solar energy economical<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9079.aspx\">Provide energy from fusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9077.aspx\">Develop carbon sequestration methods<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9132.aspx\">Manage the nitrogen cycle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9142.aspx\">Provide access to clean water<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9136.aspx\">Restore and improve urban infrastructure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/8938.aspx\">Advance health informatics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9129.aspx\">Engineer better medicines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9109.aspx\">Reverse-engineer the brain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9134.aspx\">Prevent nuclear terror<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9042.aspx\">Secure cyberspace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9140.aspx\">Enhance virtual reality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/9127.aspx\">Advance personalized learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringchallenges.org\/cms\/8996\/8965.aspx\">Engineer the tools of scientific discovery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Engineering (U.S.) identified 14 challenges in this century that need engineering solutions.\u00a0 These challenges are: Make solar energy economical Provide energy from fusion Develop carbon sequestration methods Manage the nitrogen cycle Provide access to clean water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/21st-century-engineering-challenges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}