Visioning Event: The Role of Engineering in Addressing Climate Change

ERVA is charged with the strategic convening of interdisciplinary groups of experts to collaboratively identify bold and transformative new engineering research directions. ERVA visioning events will provide unique opportunities for selected participants to advance the ERVA goal of catalyzing the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that benefits society.  Our inaugural visioning event will explore The Role of Engineering in Addressing Climate Change. As outlined in a recent White House priorities memo, “the United States and the world face a profound climate crisis with a narrow moment to pursue action to avoid the most catastrophic impacts and to seize the opportunities that tackling climate change presents.” The goal of this event is to identify specific areas that are nascent or require additional exploration with potential for the greatest return on investment; participants will help ERVA identify less-explored, basic and use-inspired lines of research ripe for engineering community pursuit.

About the Visioning Event

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Workshop attendance is carefully curated. Participants have been identified and are invited based on their research and expertise, taking into account ERVA’s identity as a diverse, inclusive, and engaged partnership that enables an array of voices to impact national research priorities. Such considerations include an overall participant list diverse by dimensions including but not limited to: research discipline; geographic location; organization sector and type; gender; race/ethnicity; and career stage.

In spring 2022, ERVA will release its inaugural visioning report on the engineering community’s role in addressing climate change, the first in a series of thematic reports that will help set priorities for the future of engineering. The report will include high-value findings in the engineering community's pursuit in the battle against climate change.