Grand Challenges for Engineering: Provide access to clean water
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Continuing Education 11-Continuing Education |
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Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering |
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Community - General |
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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. "The world's water supplies are facing new threats; affordable, advanced technologies could make a difference for millions of people around the world. When Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote "water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink," he did not have the 21st century's global water situation in mind. But allowing for poetic license, he wasn't far from correct. Today, the availability of water for drinking and other uses is a critical problem in many areas of the world." |
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| Keywords: | clean water grand challenges of engineering grand challenge |
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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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Low |
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| Publication Date: | August 2008 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9142.aspx |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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