December 2013

PE REPORT
Video Contest Celebrates Engineering’s Past and Future

A fifty-year-old institution is celebrating with a twenty-first century contest.

To mark its anniversary, the National Academy of Engineering is calling on all interested parties to create 1–2 minute videos portraying engineering contributions that serve human welfare and the needs of society from the time period 1964–2064. Submissions can either highlight creations from the last 50 years, or imagine what engineering might create in the next 50.

Entrants—either individuals or teams—must fit into one of six categories: middle school students, high school students, tertiary education students (two-year colleges through graduate school), NAE Frontiers of Engineering and Frontiers of Engineering Education participants and alumni, NAE members and foreign associates, or the general public.

Top videos in each group will receive $5,000 and the best overall video will receive $25,000. The deadline to enter is March 31, 2014.

The National Academy of Engineering was created in 1964 by the U.S. government in the same legislation that created the National Academy of Sciences. Its mission is to advance the well-being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshalling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology.

Check out www.nae.edu/e4u for more information.