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Six strategic issues shaping the global future of mechanical engineering

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

(Initially posted at Applied Mechanics News on 21 May 2006)

The ASME commissioned the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF), a nonprofit futures think tank, to scan the world for the future of ASME. The IAF report, dated on 30 June 2005, listed the following six strategic issues: