(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Paris climate agreement is another example of an attempted grand solution to a ...

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.

Much has been written about business leadership and its relation to passion, mission, vision, product design, ESG and DEI. In fact, this type of literature is filled with new terminology for pragmatic ...

Picture this heavyweight prize-fight match up: engineering’s logical and rational approach to problem solving versus the sometimes-street brawling style of public policy development. Put the two in a ...

Living in a simulation wouldn’t get rid of the need to solve climate change – in fact, it may amplify it. If reality is a simulation, then it must have been created for some purpose. Since the most ...

The views expressed herein are mine alone as a 45-year power sector expert since 1980. In addition, I have been the pioneer Chairman and CEO of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stephan Manning, University of Sussex and Juliane Reinecke, King's College London; ...