Fusion research as an example

Yixiang Gan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:11:44 -0400

Now, ITER is one of the most important and inevitable projects in fusion research toward commercial usage of fusion energy. Since it has been decided to be built in France and EU will support near 50% of the budget of 11 billion Euro, it is definitely an European, and of course international, challenge. This has been also listed in the NAE Grand challenges.

In terms of orgnization, European Fusion Development Agreement (Garching, Germany) and recently Fusion for Engergy (Barcelona, Spain) are two examples. They reassemble scientists and engineers from differenet disciplines, and in different places together for the same challenge. I think their experiences could be usefull for those challenges, i.e. to break "walls".

NAE Grand challenges for engineering

Zhigang Suo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:13:39 -0400

Here is a previous iMechanica thread on the NAE Grand challenges. Also, on the NAE website, each challenge has become a long thread of discussion. These threads can be useful resources.

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Fusion research as an example

NAE Grand challenges for engineering