"Engineering and the Diversity Imperative: The 15th Grand Challenge"
Year: 2023
Award Level: Bronze
Award Winner(s): University of California, Davis
Award: Circle of Excellence
Category: Writing | Column or Opinion Piece
From the Nominator
This opinion piece appeared in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Perspectives on Oct. 17, 2022. UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May makes the case that the NAE 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century omits an important challenge that must be addressed: increasing the number of women and underrepresented minorities in all of the engineering disciplines.
From the Judges
Strong story addressing the topic of diversity in the engineering discipline and its importance to society as whole.