The Engineer of 2020 Project centers on an effort to envision the future and to use that knowledge to attempt to predict the roles that engineers will play in the future. It is intended to provide a framework to position engineering education in the US for what lies ahead, rather than waiting and then trying to respond. Bran Ferren (President at Walt Disney Imagineering) gave a keynote address to the committee. The participants used scenario-based strategic planning with the help of Peter Schwartz (a director at the Long Now Foundation). G. Wayne Clough, president of Georgia Tech and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, chaired the committee that prepared this report. Committee members include: Alan Kay, now of HP Labs; Robert Lucky, of Telcordia and long-time IEEE columnist; and Henry Petroski, of Duke, and best-selling author. Noticeably absent? Gates. Jobs. Joy! The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century | 
