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.

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

Engineers are often asked to solve problems, says Andrew Olewnik, adjunct assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. And they often have little training in how to discern ...

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Collaborative, creative, and fast-paced, WildHacks is Northwestern’s largest hackathon. The annual coding-based competition is designed for all students to learn and broaden their programming skills.

If you’re in manufacturing, it may feel like disruption is happening faster than you can react to it. Skills shortages and supply chain issues are threatening production targets and profitability. New ...

Northwestern Medicine's Julius Dewald collaborates with students in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program to develop robotics for rehabilitation purposes. Professor ...

Every day it seems like artificial intelligence (AI) plays a more important role in our lives. From the work we do to the content we consume, we constantly run into algorithms designed to make our ...