Research from BCGDV and Matmatch has found that 80 per cent of materials research starts with Google. Heiko Wildner asks if this is preventing engineers from thinking out of the box Engineers can no ...

This posed a critical question: how could the EBE faculty improve their approach to design education to better prepare students for the complexities of the engineering world? At the time, Dr Amit ...

Engineering is commonly thought of in terms of specialization and branches, and there is still a tendency to equate engineering and engineers with their products instead of the underlying thinking ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

Julio M. Ottino (NAE) is dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P.