Engineering Needs More Futurists
4 min read Participants at a breakout session discuss ideas for how to make concrete, chemicals, and single-use packaging more sustainable during ERVA’s Engineering Materials for a Sustainable Future visioning event, held in July. A quick glance at the news headlines each morning might convey that the world is in crisis. Challenges include climate-change threats to human infrastructure and habitats; cyberwarfare by state and nonstate actors attacking energy sources and health care systems; and the