2007 NAE Convocation of the Professional Engineering Societies
and the AAES Board of Directors Meeting

Program Session
May 7, 2007

Lecture Room
National Academy of Engineering
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Challenges for Engineering in the New Millennium:
Attracting and Retaining Tomorrow’s Engineers

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast, Ante room to Lecture Room

9:00 AM Welcome - Wm. A. Wulf, President, NAE

Program Introduction - Alma Martinez Fallon, Chair, AAES

Session I

9:10 AM Attracting Students to Engineering, Mathematics, and Science: Designing and Implementing Effective Messages

Chair: Don Giddens, Dean, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

9:15 AM Repositioning Engineering - Patrick Natale, Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers (presentation)

9:35 AM Increasing Engineering Appeal with High School Girls - F. Suzanne Jenniches, VP and General Manager, Government Systems Division, Northrup Grumman Corporation (presentation)

9:55 AM A Strategy for Boosting Student Interest in Math and Science - Susan Traiman, Director of Public Policy, Business Roundtable (presentation)

10:15 AM Discussion: Don Giddens, Moderator

10:30 AM Break

Session II

11:00 AM Grand Challenges for Engineering in the New Millennium

Chair: Bernadine Healy, Former Director, NIH; Health Editor, U.S. News & World Report; and Member, NAE Grand Challenges Committee

11: 10 AM NAE Grand Challenges Project - Randy Atkins, NAE Media Relations, Project Officer (presentation)

11: 20 AM IEEE Grand Challenges - Leah Jamieson, Dean of Engineering, Purdue University and President IEEE (presentation)

11:30 AM ASME Grand Challenges - Terry Shoup, Professor, Santa Clara University and President ASME (presentation)

11:40 AM AIChE Grand Challenges - Dale L. Keairns, Technical Fellow, SAIC, President-Elect AIChE (presentation)

11:50 AM ASCE Grand Challenges - William F. Marcuson III, U.S. Army Engineer R&D Center (ret) and President ASCE (presentation)

12:00 PM Discussion

12:30 PM Lunch, National Academies Refectory

Session III

2:00 PM Challenges for Engineering Education

Chair: Wm. A. Wulf, President, NAE

2:05 PM Offshoring of Engineering Jobs: Implications for Engineering Education - William Spencer, Chairman Emeritus, SEMATECH (presentation)

2:30 PM Preparing the Engineer of 2020 - Lisa Lattuca, Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate, Penn State, Center for the Study of Higher Education and Patrick Terrenzini, Distinguished Professor and Senior Scientist, Penn State, Center for the Study of Higher Education (presentation)

3:05 PM Break

3:35 PM Advancing Scholarship in Engineering Education: A Year of Dialogue - David N. Wormley, President, American Society for Engineering Education, Dean, College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (presentation)

4:00 PM Building Capacity and Community in Engineering Education - Norman Fortenberry, Director, NAE Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (presentation)

4:25 PM Discussion: Wm. A. Wulf, Moderator

5:00 PM Adjourn