Software engineers are often advised to think like business people, but do engineers also have something to teach managers and entrepreneurs? Absolutely! In my role as technical director in Google ...

The World Wide Web came to life while Amon Millner was in high school in Portland. He took computer classes and found programming jobs in the summer. Recognizing the exponential increase in computing, ...

In multidisciplinary engineering system design, we integrate. From the very start of the design process, we combine the physical system with sensors, actuators, computer control, and human interfaces ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andrew Hsu, the cofounder and CTO of Speak, an AI-powered language learning app. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I'm a ...

Pontiac has vanished from showrooms, yet its cars still ignite debates in parking lots and online forums. Among General ...

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Grappling with all the uncertainty, the epidemiologist’s role during the pandemic proved confusingly complex. A more pragmatic, problem-solving mindset might help in making good decisions. The last 20 ...

When M.G. Venkatesh Mannar (MS ’72) set out for the United States to get a master’s degree in chemical engineering, he hoped to use what he learned to modernize his family’s salt manufacturing ...

Nearly 1,000 U.S. construction workers died of work-related injuries each year from 2011 to 2020, with the industry accounting for 20% of all workplace deaths, even though it made up just 7.3% of the ...

Chair in Engineering Design & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Marquette University. Mechatronic system design involves integration. From the verystart of the design ...