As the next generation of engineers, engineering students at the local level have specific views on what key issues should be addressed in the coming decades. Results of a University of Kansas survey completed by over 220 engineering students from sophomores to graduate students in seven engineering majors from five departments are reported, analyzed, and compared with the 14 Grand Challenges f...

avian leukosis viruses (alvs) cause different types of tumours in poultry and can affect the health and egg production of the birds. to investigate the presence of the virus in chicken layer flocks in shiraz, 222 egg albumen from local layer breeder (25 eggs), local layer grand parent (30 eggs), broiler breeder (60 eggs), commercial layer (46 eggs) and broiler grand parent (61 eggs) were tested...

“One of the better aspects of human nature is our drive to seek out and conquer challenges. We seem imbued with a desire to formulate problems of the highest degree of difficulty and then to relentlessly pursue their solution. The identification and pursuit of Grand Challenges has been a hallmark of the high-performance computing arena for over a decade. In recent years, many other technical co...

In this work we present the solution to the DEBS’2013 Grand Challenge, as crafted by the joint effort of teams from the Technion and TU Dortmund. The paper describes the architecture, details the queries and offers our observations regarding the appropriate way to trade-off high-level processing with time constraints.

At the University of Tennessee, The Grand Challenge Scholar program operates in conjunction with the Honors Engineering Leadership minor (HELM) and emphasizes leadership training as part of interdisciplinary coursework preparing engineering students to work at the boundaries of their profession with business, entrepreneurship, ethics, and human behavior. We have formed a partnership with the De...

â â â  â â  â  abstract â  this paper examines the two most important current efforts to devise new rules binding all nations the negotiations in the wto of trade rules and the negotiations under the un framework convention on climate change to devise rules restricting the annual emissions of greenhouse gases. both negotiations have failed after several years of intensive effort. there are rema...