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 ...

Engineering today is about much more than technical know-how—it’s about structured, creative problem-solving that bridges ...

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Rural youth are uniquely attached to their communities and may be discouraged from pursuing engineering careers because of the misconception that they would have to leave their communities to do so.

Every year, millions of drivers lose hundreds of hours to gridlock, costing economies billions in lost productivity. Engineers are now deploying radical new road designs, smart surface technologies, ...