ASM Boston Chapter Community

In 2008, the National Academy of Engineering announced 14 Engineering Grand Challenges that, “left unsolved, threaten our current standard of living”. Today, in the face of burgeoning human populations, ongoing climate change, rising sea levels, increasing pollution, and natural disasters, the challenges are more relevant than ever. The path forward for ASM is clear. By inspiring students of all ages how to learn, we can provide the scientific and engineering foundations, and suites of tools, needed to address the complexities of tomorrow. We will create a community that is not only unafraid of joining a future workforce not yet envisioned, but is also prepared to step up to leadership roles. We will seek to provide sustainable, energy-efficient, and low-cost materials solutions that advance those less fortunate than ourselves.

In this presentation, we will explore how privileged we are to have knowledge and skills that will help to combat disease, reduce energy costs, rebuild our infrastructure, advance our manufacturing industries, and create new products and potentially even artificial organs that will improve the quality of life, at home and abroad. When we apply our materials experience to problems at the intersection of multiple disciplines, we can discover transformational solutions that will contribute to the health, welfare, security and sustainability of our planet, and even worlds beyond.