Chuck Vest
kcollins | April 4, 2011
As a young student growing up in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Charles (Chuck) Vest
remembers taking endless aptitude tests in school - all of them indicating that he should become a journalist, a psychologist or a historian. Engineer was way down on the list, test results always revealed, strongly suggesting he had little or no aptitude for this field.
Oh, how wrong they proved to be.
Chuck not only proved to have a keen aptitude for engineering, his illustrious career in the field has seen him assume challenging leadership roles in some of engineering's highest echelons - including…
kcollins | March 9, 2011Engineering really matters. Did you know that all the major challenges facing the U.S. and the rest of the world - from medicine and homeland security to energy, food and water supply and communications - cannot be solved without engineering? In this revealing video clip, hear what Dr. Chuck Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has to say about what it will take for America to train enough engineers to meet the challenges of tomorrow.