Predictions from the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance
“A phone that can regenerate itself. New York City with fresh mountain air. Plant-based, locally-grown manufacturing materials. All technical challenges seemingly impossible to execute, but incredible to imagine. These are among the challenges presented to a diverse array of experts and practitioners with a clear objective: to envision bold engineering research priorities that can advance progress and address some of society’s most pressing problems. Set in motion by the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), a Thematic Task Force with members from academia, industry, and the nonprofit sectors formulated “8 Impossible Things,” each a statement accompanied by an image of an ideal future positively impacted through bold research–and subsequent innovation–at the intersection of biology and engineering. These eight challenges inspired more than 100 researchers to draw outside the lines and think outside the box to formulate research priorities not only imaginable, but achievable.” MORE
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