Engaging Your Community Locally and globally
VITERBI GRAND CHALLENGE SCHOLARS PROGRAM The Grand Challenges program promotes the ideals of life quality, health solutions, security, and sustainability through research, entrepreneurship, service, and global engagement. You can design your own unique educational experience by addressing one of the 14 challenges below. Join a global network of students who graduate as an National Academy of Engineering (NAE) recognized Grand Challenge Scholar! Sustainability ● Make solar energy economical ● Provide energy from fusion ● Develop carbon sequestration methods ● Manage the nitrogen cycle ● Provide access to clean water Health
Security ● Secure cyberspace ● Prevent nuclear terror ● Restore and improve urban infrastructure Joy of Living ● Enhance virtual reality ● Advance personalized learning ● Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
● Engineer better medicines ● Advance health informatics ● Reverse-engineer the brain
Viterbi Grand Challenge Scholars use the Five Mindset framework to inform and solve for a Grand Challenge we face in our global community. Students accomplish this by demonstrating how the Five Mindsets intersect through participating in activities in and outside of the classroom.
THE FIVE MINDSETS
SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
As a Viterbi Grand Challenge Scholar, you will:
● Demonstrate your understanding of foundational elements to global engagement as they relate to a Grand Challenge ● Develop an approach to solving societal problems to take beyond your undergraduate education ● Apply each of the Five Mindsets through curricular and co-curricular activities
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