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Musk was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering

Recently, the US National Academy of Engineering announced a new list of elected academicians, a total of 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians. One of the most notable is the election of Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk.

Musk was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering

This time Musk was selected, and the core reason was recognized as SpaceX's achievements in the field of spaceflight. In the members' profile, the National Academy of Engineering said of Musk: "Founder, CEO, and chief engineer who has made breakthroughs in the design, engineering, manufacturing, and operation of reusable launch vehicles, as well as sustainable transportation and energy systems. ”

The National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors for engineers, along with Musk, microsoft chairman and CEO Saya Nadella, and Apple's vice president of hardware engineering, Kathleen Bergeron. In addition, Fang Daining, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, was selected as a foreign academician.

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