This program prepares engineering students to solve the grand challenges facing society in the 21st century

This program prepares engineering students to solve the grand challenges facing society in the 21st century

2 students working on a design project with a professor

Kate Gleason College of Engineering is a participating school in the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges Scholars Program. Students are encouraged to tackle a problem, such as engineering better medicines, advanced health informatics, enhanced virtual reality, or economical solar energy solutions, to name a few, and work to combine curricular and extra-curricular activities around five components – research/creativity, multicultural understanding, multidisciplinary, viable business/entrepreneurship, and social consciousness – each of which prepare engineering students to solve the grand challenges facing society in the 21st century.