Grand Challenges for Engineering: Develop carbon sequestration methods
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Continuing Education 11-Continuing Education |
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Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering Environmental Engineering |
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Community - Discussion Forum/Mailing List/Newsletter |
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Organization:National Academy of Engineering |
| Description: | One of the Grand Challenges in Engineering identified by the National Academy of Engineering. The website has a description of the challenge, along with video clips that highlight specific problem areas. "Engineers are working on ways to capture and store excess carbon dioxide to prevent global warming. The growth in emissions of carbon dioxide, implicated as a prime contributor to global warming, is a problem that can no longer be swept under the rug. But perhaps it can be buried deep underground or beneath the ocean." Image caption: A researcher assembles a prototype device intended to chemically reenergize carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, which could become the building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel. |
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| Keywords: | carbon dioxide global warming carbon sequestration |
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Grand Challenges for Engineering |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(e) Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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I have included these grand challenge resources as assignments in my freshman design and analysis class. |
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Medium |
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Medium |
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| Publication Date: | August 2008 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9077.aspx |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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