NAE Annual Meeting

This weekend was the NAE Annual Meeting. I got to sit in on the Executive Council meetings prior to the start of the Annual Meeting. It was really cool meeting all of these highly distinguished people. I sat next to a member at dinner who is on the President's Council for the National Laboratories. Due to my attendence at these kinds of meetings, I've learned about all sorts of awesome opportunties for my friends who are engineers. One program is the NAE Frontiers of Engineering. Innovative young (30-45) engineers are nominated and then selected to attend this symposium so that they can meet other stellar people in the field, get to know each other, and then later become NAE members themselves. It's pretty cool and a extermely valuable networking opportunity.