Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

The essence of mechanical engineering is problem solving. MEs combine creativity, knowledge and analytical tools to complete the difficult task of shaping an idea into reality. Mechanical engineering ...

What teacher has not heard students challenge, “Why do I need math? Why am I learning this? I’m never going to use it.” To help teachers answer these questions, an engineering team from Rochester ...

Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft responds to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...

A blood-clotting "super gel." A mobile app for heart attack recovery. A pizza-delivering drone. A souped-up walker for pediatric ICU patients. Johns Hopkins engineering students have plenty to show ...

Catherine Barry always had a love for math and science growing up. “Both of my parents have advanced degrees in life sciences, so science and engineering were always a topic of conversations at the ...

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