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.

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Chemical engineers tackle problems ranging from the molecular level to the planetary scale (and beyond). The skillset you'll build as a chemical engineer will position you to be able to solve a wide ...

The Human-Centered Engineering (HCE) program provides students with a technical education that is human-centered, design-process driven, and focused on applying engineering knowledge to solve complex ...

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) has been around for a while, but it continues to gain ground in engineering projects ...