William J. Perry, Chair of the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges of Engineering Committee and former Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton, and Jared Dunnmon, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University and a graduate of the NAE's Grand Challenges Scholars Program, speak about the importance of teaching the next generation about the Grand Challenges of Engineering and preparing them to engineer a better world.

The Grand Challenges Scholars Program and the NAE's 14 Grand Challenges are two projects that will be addressed at the 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit.

The 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS), jointly organized by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, will be held July 18-20, 2017, on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The GGCS series aims to spark global collaborations that lead to innovative ways of addressing critically important engineering challenges and opportunities and inspiring the next generation of change makers. 

Find out more at www.ggcs2017.org