Most people think of the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” as a story of devoted friendship between a spider and a pig. But it can also be read as a story of a budding engineer – Charlotte – who ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the technology industry. Following a period of fast growth as organizations and individuals embraced a digital-first mindset amid the pandemic, our ...

With the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, commentators from all disciplines are offering insights into “what it all meant.”.Let's instead stick to results closer to home: What did the ...

The following article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. A few years ago, Northwestern University alumnus Stephen Colbert spoke to our graduating seniors about improvisation. He said one of the ...

Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a morbid fascination with engineering mega-failures, few ...

How often did you encounter engineering lessons in your school years? The answer for most of us is “never.” Students that happened to do well at math and science might select engineering as a field of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Like them, I began my career behind the scenes. I studied astrophysics before diving into ...

The flyby of Pluto in July of 2015 is being hailed as an event equivalent to the Apollo 11 moon landing. With all of its recent success and media hype about what it has taught us about Pluto, the New ...

The U.S. Army Engineer Officer Candidate Regiment Class 516 Alpha returned to Fort Belvoir Saturday for a morning tour of the base and a dinner at the Officers’ Club. Thirty five of the surviving 48 ...