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.

Every organization is facing the same problem: engineering teams don’t lack data. They lack context for that data.

Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft responds to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that ...

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.

Agentic systems introduce additional complexity because they often involve long-running, multi-step processes spanning ...

Hospitals are trying to catch disease earlier. Banks are defending against fraud in real time. Logistics companies are rerouting supply chains mid-crisis. Game studios are building worlds that ...