Engineering is commonly thought of in terms of specialization and branches, and there is still a tendency to equate engineering and engineers with their products instead of the underlying thinking ...

What does it mean to be an engineer? Throughout my time as dean, I have continued to ask this question as we grow our research and educational initiatives. Integrating left-brain rational thinking ...

Samantha Planas is a systems engineer at Fenwal and member of the INCOSE Chicagoland chapter as well as a current MEM student. In this post she shares an overview of systems engineering and offers ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Offering a resource to help parents, educators and other adults broaden children’s learning interests to include engineering thinking and design is part of the goal of the ...

This is the simplest and easiest way to understand the concept and idea of creativity at merely the surface level. Creativity is unique in the way that it can be found anywhere in everyday life, even ...

I am always interested in books that explore the engineering psyche and experience, beginning with classics such as The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder and The Existential Pleasures of ...

The life of an engineering student often flows as an endless combination of boundless curiosity about everything related to movement, sound, light, as well as team projects, laboratory experiments, ...

A young boy shows off his building skills to his father with one of several toys listed in the INSPIRE Gift Guide. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood) Download Photo WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For ...