The institution that represents the highest honor for American engineers, Na Xin.
Just now, the National Academy of Engineering announced a new list of 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians. The most notable of the winners was Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Musk is at the helm of innovation companies in many cutting-edge fields, including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and the richest man on earth.
Musk: I often describe myself as an engineer
On the morning of February 10, Beijing time, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) released the list of additional academicians of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, and a total of 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians were selected. Among them, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk were selected.
As for the reasons for the selection, NAE wrote that SpaceX founder, CEO and principal engineer Musk made breakthroughs in the design, engineering, manufacturing and operation of reusable launch vehicles and sustainable transportation and energy systems.
Also selected were Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, LG Energy Solutions Michigan President Gray Denise, and General Electric's head of smart grid business McDonald John.
Gray Denise, president of LG Energy Solutions Michigan Corporation, is a leader in the development and production of electronic control and battery systems for electric passenger car propulsion system applications.
McDonald John, Geon electric's Head of Smart Grid Business Development, has led the smart grid development and driven the professional growth of power system engineers.
At present, the total number of academicians of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States has reached 2388, and the number of international academicians has reached 310.
According to public information, the National Academy of Engineering is the highest level of academic institutions in the field of engineering science and technology in the United States, founded in December 1964, it is one of the more influential engineering institutes in the world. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors for experts in the field of engineering.
Musk said on social media, "I usually describe myself as an engineer. It's basically something I've been doing since I was a kid. ”
It is worth noting that Musk's highest academic qualification is a bachelor's degree. According to public information, Musk grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, briefly studied at the University of Pretoria, and then moved to Canada at the age of 17 to study at Queen's University. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in economics and physics. In 1995, he moved to California and attended Stanford University, but he dropped out of school shortly after and decided to pursue a career in business.
Although Musk has made frequent achievements in the field of industry, in the eyes of some people, his views and practice methods are often out of line, including coin speculation and social network talk. On February 7, Tesla said it had recorded an impairment loss of $101 million (about 642 million yuan) due to changes in the book value of bitcoin. Under the "speculation" loss, the 10-K annual report document disclosed that Tesla also received a subpoena from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which may be inseparable from Musk's remarks on social platforms.
NASA has some concerns about Musk's Starlink program
It is worth noting that Musk has obtained the status of academician as "SpaceX founder, CEO and chief engineer", but there have been many troubles in SpaceX recently.
In 2002, Musk officially founded SpaceX, a space exploration technology company. SpaceX aims to reduce the cost of rocket launches and realize the dream of Martian colonization.
On February 22, 2018, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket and put two small experimental communication satellites into orbit. This is the beginning of Musk's ambitious global Internet satellite deployment plan, the "Starlink" project.
Source: SpaceX official website
According to media reports, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expressing concern about SpaceX's second-generation Starlink program.
Musk's SpaceX has previously obtained authorization for about 12,000 satellites, and has requested the FCC to authorize the launch of the second-generation starlink system, which will launch about 30,000 more satellites.
NASA wrote in the letter that the agency is concerned that as the number of satellites deployed by the Starlink program increases, the probability of a collision event could increase significantly, with implications for NASA's science and manned space missions.
NASA cites data that the total number of objects currently tracked in orbit around the earth is 25,000 (including satellites and various types of space junk), and SpaceX's second-generation starlink program will more than double the number of tracked objects in orbit.
Musk revealed on Twitter last month that SpaceX currently has 1469 satellites active and 272 satellites are about to enter orbit.
Previously, SpaceX's competitor Amazon has expressed similar concerns, Amazon complained to the FCC that StarChain's satellites can operate at the same altitude as the Kuiper system (Amazon's satellite project), and the risk of overlapping orbits will greatly increase the risk and other burdens of the Kuiper system, and require the FCC to impose reasonable conditions.
SpaceX announced on Wednesday that the company launched 49 satellites on February 3, but due to the attack of the solar storm the next day, as many as 40 satellites were lost due to the storm and burned up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Synthesized from: Daily Economic News, Financial Associated Press, Surging News
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