The World Wide Web came to life while Amon Millner was in high school in Portland. He took computer classes and found programming jobs in the summer. Recognizing the exponential increase in computing, ...

Grappling with all the uncertainty, the epidemiologist’s role during the pandemic proved confusingly complex. A more pragmatic, problem-solving mindset might help in making good decisions. The last 20 ...

In multidisciplinary engineering system design, we integrate. From the very start of the design process, we combine the physical system with sensors, actuators, computer control, and human interfaces ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Engineers elsewhere apply their talents to the political sphere, but those in the United States, unfortunately, don't–and there are no signs the situation will change anytime soon. The ...

Years ago, I came into healthcare in a roundabout way. I studied industrial engineering, the science of looking at processes and systems and understanding, even predicting, how they work together.

In his book, Applied Minds: How Engineers Think, Guru Madhavan explores the mental makeup of engineers. His framework is built around a flexible intellectual toolkit called modular systems thinking.

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Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series on our local artists and their experiences in these turbulent times. The nature of an engineer is to step up to a challenge, says Seattle ...

Thanks to the wildly popular 1995 movie “Apollo 13,” the mantra “failure is not an option” is firmly entrenched in popular culture. But it’s another line from Oscar-nominated Ed Harris, portraying ...

Chair in Engineering Design & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Marquette University. Mechatronic system design involves integration. From the verystart of the design ...