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Name: Ryan Evans ECE 102: Individual Project Grand Challenges for Engineering Which Grand Challenge for Engineering is your Team studying? _Restore and improve urban infrastructure_ Getting Started Source #1: NEA Website: www.engineeringchallenges.org Go to the NEA website. Locate and read /scan your team’s challenge profile and answer the questions below. 1. Briefly define the TOPIC of your challenge. How to cost effectively, and quickly restore and improve urban infrastructure. 2 . Describe at least two CURRENT BARRIERS or CHALLENGES. The U.S. is currently more partisan, and polarized than ever before. That leads to Infrastructure being a more partisan and political idea than it should be. Following the political infrastructure debate, infrastructure is becoming controversial because of what it can be defined as, some think it should include more environmentally conservative, while some think it should focus on roads and bridges. Digging Deeper for Background Research Source #2 Database Searched : Gale ebooks Use the instructions provided in the ECE102 LibGuide video to locate at least one best fit article on the challenge’s topic. Read the article and answer the questions below. 1. Record search words, filters and strategies used in this database: Infrastructure, Design, American, 2. Describe at least two findings that explain the BACKGROUND on what HAS BEEN DONE already in this topic. A renewed interest in Americas crumbling infrastructure, and how it has been ignored and neglected for long periods of time. Currently infrastructure is at the forefront of the Created by Mary Beth Burgoyne, Faculty, Library © January 2021 Critical Research | ECE102 Grand Challenges in Engineering Project

political atmosphere, trying to be used to stimulate the economy after the covid pandemic. There also have been some strides to improve infrastructure already from various investments around the country, such as private and public investments. The grade of America’s infrastructure in 2005 was a D, in 2013 it did improve to a D+. 3. Citation Copy this article’s APA citation and paste it below. Remember to E-mail / Save the article to yourself or cloud account such as Google Drive or MS OneDrive. Shibboleth Authentication Request. (n.d.). https://go-gale-com.ez1.maricopa.edu/ps/retrieve.do? tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=914& amp;searchType=AdvancedSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE %7CI2501315653&docType=Company %2Boverview&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=&prodId=GVRL&pageNum=1&c ontentSet=GALE %7CI2501315653&searchId=R4&userGroupName=mcc_chandler&inPS=true. Current Directions Source #3 Database(s) Searched : Military, Government, Use the instructions provided in the ECE102 LibGuide VIDEO #2 to locate at least one best fit article on the challenge’s topic. Read the article and answer the questions below. 1. Record search words, filters and strategies you used in this database to locate and select your chosen article. Infrastructure, America, Urban 2. Explain at least three findings that describe the: a) CURRENT STATE The current state of America’s Infrastructure is dire, given a D+ rating from engineers. The economy depends on good infrastructure, and our infrastructure is deplenishing fast. The current infrastructure could take as much as 4 trillion off of the GDP if not addressed fast. b) what STILL NEEDS to be done. Created by Mary Beth Burgoyne, Faculty, Library © January 2021 Critical Research | ECE102 Grand Challenges in Engineering Project

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