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.

Engineering education has long struggled with the gap between classroom exercises and real-world problem-solving. While ...

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.

Azgar Ali (MEM '22) applied lessons from Northwestern's Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program while competing in the 2021 MIT EnergyHack. Azgar Ali (MEM '22) heard a lot of hype about growing ...