July 13, 2008, 7:31 pm

Schwarzenegger Says He Would Accept Obama Appointment

Melanie Trottman reports on the presidential race.

Guests on the Sunday newsmaker shows, including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain adviser Carly Fiorina, spotlighted energy and the economy and paid tribute to former White House press secretary Tony Snow.

Experts say China’s wind energy could grow 1667% by 2020

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The US National Academy of Engineering has published a list of Grand Challenges for Engineering. Ths US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics is interested in developing a discussion on the implications of these Grand Challenges to the Mechanics community.

Zhigang Suo posted a link to this: http://www.imechanica.org/node/2908; this post will be on the top of the front page for the foreseeable future in to keep this on the "front burner" and to promote discussions within the community. Please look into these Grand Challenge problems and provide your input on this page. Zhigang and I will moderate these discussions and then integrate and distill our thoughts over time.

After making a list of the great engineering achievements of the 20th century, the National Academy of Engineering, of the United States, has recently described a list of the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century (of no particular order):

Guru at Entertaining Research points us to an article from Arstechnica on the recent National Academies of Science report on grand challenges in condensed matter and materials physics.  The report is called Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: The Science of the World Around Us (the link takes you to a draft copy of the report and should not be cited).

I found the following sections of the report interesting: