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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at ...

An optimization problem involves determining the best or a sufficiently good approximate solution from numerous possible options or parameter combinations, all under specific constraints. The core ...

Design issues are fundamentally optimization problems requiring appropriate optimization methods and algorithms. The increasing complexity of modern design challenges has rendered traditional ...

When AI software startup Monolith was created five years ago, the goal of the company was to create a machine learning tool that relied more on the data and engineering expertise from the design ...

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.