For years, the industry standard for data ops has been a ticket-based service bureau. A product manager wants a new dashboard? Ticket. A data scientist needs a new feature pipeline? Ticket. A ...

Bill Woodburn (MS ’75) grew up in a lower-income area of Queens, New York, where higher education seemed a world away. “I had two great parents, but we didn’t have any money,” he remembers. “No one ...

In the past two years, AI tools have become deeply embedded in the way engineering teams operate. From generating boilerplate code to assisting with architecture diagrams, AI is now part of the daily ...

As we celebrate National Engineers Week, we must ask: How can we do more to build the next generation of engineers? The U.S. faces a growing skills gap in STEM, jeopardizing our leadership in ...

Imagine McCormick’s future. What will it look like? Over the past academic year, Northwestern Engineering leadership—including Dean Christopher Schuh, the school’s nine department faculty chairs, and ...

With the advent of AI, the industry has moved from writing code from scratch to AI-assisted or “vibe” coding, and is now transitioning toward fully agentic engineering ...

A hackathon challenged aerospace students to develop a detailed digital system model for a robotic assistant for astronauts on the Moon A hackathon challenged aerospace students to develop a detailed ...

Rory A. Cooper is the founding director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a joint center of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He is a VA ...