Futurum

JUNE 30, 2022

How can engineering address human rights issues? Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. Dr Davis Chacon-Hurtado , a Peruvian engineer at the University of Connecticut in the US, is using a human rights-based approach to engineering to solve these problems.

Engineering 98

Engineering Transportation Geography Accessibility 98

The Maker Mom

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics pave the way to our advancement into the future. Among engineers and architects, women make up a mere 16.5%. For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. Women in computer and mathematics careers only account for 25.2%

STEM 52

STEM Education Education Equality 52

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There had been precursors of steam engines even in antiquity, but it was only in 1712 that the first practical steam engine was developed. Lazare Carnot died in 1823.

Energy 88

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

The results (which ultimately rely on all sorts of specific engineering) are remarkably “human like”. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want.

Computer 105

Computer Biology Mathematics Economics 105