Activities, Projects & Initiatives

The National Academy of Engineering is tasked with identifying and illuminating issues at the intersections of engineering, technology, and society that impact our quality of life. Studies, symposia, and public information activities are carried out both independently by the NAE Program Office and jointly with other units of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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  • Pathways into Engineering

    Pathways into Engineering is a hub for programs that inform, inspire, and create opportunities for K–12 students and their caregivers to explore and engage with engineering. The initiative places particular emphasis on reaching young people who may have had limited exposure to engineering or access to mentors in the field, helping to ensure that all interested students can discover pathways into the profession.

  • Completed
    A diverse committee of experts from around the world, some of the most accomplished engineers and scientists of their generation, proposed 14 grand challenges for engineering. The panel, which was convened by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering NAE at the request of the U.S. National Science ...

    Latest UpdateSeptember 19, 2025

  • Completed
    All students should have the opportunity to study engineering, but despite long-standing calls to increase the numbers of women, African-Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Hispanics of any race, students from low-income families, and other underrepresented groups in undergraduate ...

    Latest UpdateFebruary 23, 2024

  • In Progress
    Practices for Engineering Education and Research (PEER) will conduct studies, workshops, and other activities focused on equitable and inclusive engineering education and related research at the precollege and higher education levels. This program will consider the entire educational system, ...

    Latest UpdateSeptember 13, 2023

  • Completed
    This 18-month project, overseen by the National Academy of Engineering in partnership with the Board on Science Education , will conduct extensive data gathering to better understand the current and anticipated future needs for engineering-literate PreK-12 educators in the United States and how ...

    Latest UpdateAugust 9, 2023

  • Completed
    NAE Transitions the Management of LinkEngineering to the ITEEA The goal of this three-year project is to provide guidance to key stakeholders in US K-12 education regarding effective engineering education. The stakeholders include organizations leading development and implementation of the ...

    Latest UpdateApril 20, 2021

  • Completed
    Over a 20-month period, an ad hoc committee will explore a set of questions about the career choices of engineering graduates and those employed as engineers with non-engineering degrees in the United States in order to provide a comprehensive view of the career pathways and related decision making of engineering graduates and working engineers in the United States.

    Latest UpdateMay 22, 2019

  • Completed
    The Engineering Education Leadership Institute served to imbue leaders of the engineering academic community with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to create environments that will successfully prepare engineering students for the technical and social challenges of practice in the 21st Century.

    Latest UpdateApril 3, 2019

  • Completed
    The ability of the United States to support innovation requires production and retention of individuals highly skilled in the sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM). These STEM professionals work in a widely disseminated global enterprise spanning government, industry, and ...

    Latest UpdateFebruary 15, 2017

  • Completed
    Through this NSF-supported (HRD-0411994) project, HBCU deans identified annually 3-person teams that included at least 2 engineering faculty and up to 1 faculty member from a social science or education discipline. Each team participated in a one-year cycle of activities in 2004, 2005, or 2006. ...

    Latest UpdateJanuary 5, 2016

  • Completed
    The National Academy of Engineering and NRC Board on Science Education are overseeing a new study of integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (iSTEM) education at the K-12 level. The project aims to develop a strategic research agenda for determining the approaches and ...

    Latest UpdateSeptember 2, 2014

  • Completed
    This workshop, supported by NSF (via grant DUE-0523255), brought together engineering education researchers and sociologists to frame a research agenda by which to begin to explore the challenge of integrating pedagogical and curricular innovations into the engineering classroom. In order to ...

    Latest UpdateFebruary 21, 2013

  • Completed
    From 2005 to 2010, CASEE underwrote the expenses of the New Faculty Fellows program of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). The FIE conference is sponsored by the ASEE Education Research and Methods Division, the IEEE Education Society, and the IEEE Computer Society. The purpose of the ...

    Latest UpdateFebruary 19, 2013

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