Grand Challenges For Engineering
In 2007, Irucka Ajani Embry, EIT submitted his Grand Challenges for Engineering [2007 Web site] {Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine} (below, although recently revised) to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He also created this LibreOffice Impress presentation to outline his current views on the Grand Challenges as a paradigm shift, see ReThink, ReFeel and ReImagine Engineering — [Requires PDF Software].
What are the grand challenges for engineers?
Engineers, today and in the future, need to fully examine our design & construction processes to determine the impacts (both positive and negative on all life forms) for the next 7 generations as a guiding principle (source: the Iroquois Confederation & Seven Generations Ahead).
Principle Declarations 2007
- We must reclaim our humanity through creatively imagining the future with everyone (every being on this planet is a stakeholder — not only our clients, employers, and local ecosystems and local human communities).
- We must change our engineering foundations from Newtonian/Cartesian thinking (mechanical-based, disconnected, separate, reductionist analytical theories and laws) to integrative and complementary, fluid, circular, holistic living systems-based, connected, conceptual theories and laws. We can not change the world for the better until we change the way that we view the world.
- We must choose peace and not war. We must decide to use our intelligence to create a peaceful, fair, just, and humane world. We have participated way too long in Wars where we systematically kill ourselves, therefore we must begin the process of healing and saving ourselves. We must support and engage in research efforts that enhance everyone’s humanity, imagination, creativity, and overall well-being.
- We must support ethics by not condoning corruption and other unethical behaviors in our business dealings, pursuits, research, etc.
- We must examine our design and construction processes through life cycle ecological & temporal synthesis (geologic time constraints, internal and external costs, ecosystem health impact, human health impact, overall global impacts - biogeophysicochemical cycles, etc.) rather than life cycle analysis.
- We must develop frameworks similar to the Cradle to Cradle framework created by the MBDC.
- We must develop energy effective rather than energy efficient products (source: McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC)).
- We must work with the general public better because solving the world’s problems and avoiding creating future problems requires working in true interdisciplinary teams.
- We must continue research efforts in the field of biomimicry. (source: Internet Archive: Viktor Schauberger — Comprehend and Copy Nature by Franz Fitzke & Biomimicry Institute)
- We must uphold ecological health systems [ecosystem health & human health (biological, economic, emotional, social, spiritual) in our top lines rather than our bottom lines (source for triple top lines: McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC)).
I ask that those scientists and engineers that have not signed the following online pledge and petition to sign them in order for us to actualize our commitment to a better world:
- Los Alamos Study Group Scientists’ and Engineers’ Pledge To Renounce Weapons of Mass Destruction (online pledge)
- the design, development, testing, production, maintenance, targeting, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or their means of delivery;
- research or engineering that I have reason to believe will be used by others to do so.
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I pledge never to participate in —
or in
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): Engineer’s Charter
- National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE): Code of Ethics for Engineers
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): Code of Ethics
Principle Declarations 2024
- How do we design for Abundance? Why should we design for Abundance?
- How do we create designs that prevent problems rather than merely addressing or solving them while creating new problems at the same time?
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- Los Alamos Study Group: We call for sanity, not nuclear production
- Los Alamos Study Group: The Call for Nuclear Disarmament
- Where Did the Towers Go?: Evidence of Directed Free-Energy Technology on 9/11
- Dr. Judy Wood: The Journal of 9/11 Research and 9/11 Issues
- Science in Society Archive: Bio-electromagnetic Weapons: A weapon system that operates at the speed of light, that can kill, torture, enslave and escape detection. Harlan Girard (ISIS Report 24/01/06)
- Questioning the Universe Publishing (QUP) {Irucka Embry]: Resources to help us rethink, reimagine, & reFeel our world: Climate Strange (Global Cooling, Global Warming, Solar Variability, Climate Change, Chemtrails, Geoengineering, HAARP and other related technologies, Weather Warfare/Modification, Blocking Positive Energy/Contacts, Blocking Positive Energy/Information from our Sun, etc.)
- Journal of Borderland Research: Weather Control [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]
- Geoengineering Watch
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- Science in Society Archive: Unintended Hazards of Geoengineering: Reducing the solar radiation that reaches Earth will have potentially significant consequences beyond limiting the mean temperature of the planet; it may reduce annual rainfall, especially in the Americas and northern Eurasia Prof. Peter Saunders (ISIS Report 23/07/12)
- Science in Society Archive: Skyhook to Save the Climate?: Geoengineering, like banking, can affect the whole world, and again like banking, has no international regulation, which is urgently needed. Prof. Peter Saunders (ISIS Report 26/09/11)
- Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails: A Review of the “Case Orange” report by Rady Ananda, Global Research, July 30, 2010
- Science in Society Archive: Atmospheric Geoengineering: Anonymous report confirms climate and weather manipulation experiments conducted by the US and its allies over the past decades Julian Rose, (ISIS Report 20/09/10)
- Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military’s Experiments with Climatic Warfare: ‘Climatic warfare’ has been excluded from the agenda on climate change. By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, January 20, 2013/The Ecologist, December 2007, Global Research 7 December 2007
- High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- University of Alaska Fairbanks: High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP
- Eastlund Scientific Enterprises Corporation (ESEC): HAARP — U.S. Patent 4,686,605 [Recovered with the Webpage archive]
- Federation of American Scientists (FAS): HAARP: Detection and Imaging of Underground Structures Using ELF/VLF Radio Waves
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- Nine Years ago, The Tsunami: Foreknowledge of A Natural Disaster: Washington was aware that a deadly Tidal Wave was building up in the Indian Ocean By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 30, 2013/Global Research 29 December 2004
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- From The Wilderness Publications: H.A.A.R.P.: It’s not only greenhouse gas emissions: Washington’s new world order weapons have the ability to trigger climate change By Michel Chossudovsky - Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa and TFF associate, author of The Globalization of Poverty, second edition, Common Courage Press [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]
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