Raleigh Grand Challenge Summit 2010

North Carolina State University and Duke University

Grand Challenge Summit

March 3-5, 2010

From March 3-5, more than 600 engineers, students and other interested parties gathered in Raleigh, N.C., for the first of the 2010 year’s five Regional Grand Challenge Summits. The purpose of these sessions is to address how engineers and others can solve the 14 largest issues facing the world, as recently identified by the National Academy of Engineering. The Raleigh sessions were co-sponsored by Duke and North Carolina State University. The following stories in this special edition of Duke Engineering News will cover the issues discussed at the ssessions, which ranged in topics from nuclear fusion to engineering better medicine.

Event Program:

Grand Challenge Summit in Raleigh, NC
Watch It	Welcome by Marshall Brain, summit emcee and founder of "HowStuffWorks"
Watch It	Session I: Grand Challenges - The Industry View Keynote Speaker Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO, GE
Watch It	Session II - Engineering Better Medicines Spotlight Speaker Timothy Deming, chair of the Department of Bioengineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Watch It	Panel II – Engineering Better Medicines Moderator: Nancy Allbritton, professor and chair, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Fred Hassan, former chairman of the board and CEO of Schering-Plough Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, director of the Center for Genomic Medicine, Duke University Joseph DeSimone, professor of chemistry, University of North Carolina; professor of chemical engineering, North Carolina State University
Watch It	Session III - Energy Grand Challenges Keynote Speaker Kristina Johnson, undersecretary of energy, U.S. Department of Energy
Watch It	Session III - Energy Grand Challenges Spotlight Speaker Vikram Rao, executive director, Research Triangle Energy Consortium
Watch It	Panel III – Energy Grand Challenges Moderator: Mark Johnson, program director, Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) Program David Hill, deputy director, Idaho National Laboratory Mark Wyatt, vice president, Smart Energy Systems, Duke Energy David C. Dayton, biofuels director, Center for Energy Technology, RTI International Vikram Rao, executive director, Research Triangle Energy Consortium
Watch It	Session IV - Nuclear Fusion Spotlight Speaker Ed Moses, principal associate director, National Ignition Facility and Photon Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Watch It	Session IV - Nuclear Fusion Spotlight Speaker Ned Sauthoff, U.S. director, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Watch It	Panel IV - Nuclear Fusion Moderator: Andrew C. Klein, professor, Nuclear Energy and Radiation Health Physics, Oregon State University Ed Moses, principal associate director, National Ignition Facility and Photon Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Ned Sauthoff, U.S. director, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Farrokh Najmabadi, director, Center for Energy Research, University of California, San Diego
Watch It	Session V - American Innovation and Competitiveness Keynote Speaker John T. Chambers, chairman and CEO, CISCO
Watch It	Session V - American Innovation and Competitiveness Spotlight Speaker Jeff Wadsworth, president and CEO, Battelle Memorial Institute
Watch It	Session V - American Innovation and Competitiveness Special Legislative Address Ted Kaufman, U.S. senator (D, Delaware)
Watch It	Panel V - American Innovation and Competitiveness Moderator: Lynn Soby, vice president of the Office of Innovation and Commercialization, RTI International John T. Chambers, chairman and CEO, CISCO Jeff Wadsworth, president and CEO, Battelle Memorial Institute Ted Kaufman, U.S. senator (D, Delaware)
Watch It	Session VI – Nuclear Security and Safeguards Spotlight Speaker Graham Allison, professor, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Watch It	Session VI - Nuclear Security and Safeguards Dale Klein, commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Watch It	Panel VI – Nuclear Security and Safeguards Moderator: John F. Ahearne, vice-chairman, Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee William S. Charlton, associate professor, Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiative, Texas A&M Howard Hall, professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee Graham Allison, professor, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Dale Klein, commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Watch It	Session VII - Student Leader Panel Moderator, Marshall Brain, summit emcee and founder of "How Stuff Works" Maggie Hoff, Duke University 2010, Civil Engineering Will Patrick, Duke University 2010, Mechanical Engineering Patrick Ye, Duke University 2010, Biomedical Engineering Kendall Fitzgerald, North Carolina State University 2010, Chemical Engineering Christine Johnsen, North Carolina State University 2010, Nuclear Engineering John Sanderson, North Carolina State University 2010, Biomedical Engineering
Watch It	Student Poster Awards
Watch It	Grand Challenge K12 Partners Program Announcement

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