Years ago, I came into healthcare in a roundabout way. I studied industrial engineering, the science of looking at processes and systems and understanding, even predicting, how they work together.

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Grappling with all the uncertainty, the epidemiologist’s role during the pandemic proved confusingly complex. A more pragmatic, problem-solving mindset might help in making good decisions. The last 20 ...

In his book, Applied Minds: How Engineers Think, Guru Madhavan explores the mental makeup of engineers. His framework is built around a flexible intellectual toolkit called modular systems thinking.

Faculty across engineering, business, and liberal arts emphasize adaptation over resistance as artificial intelligence ...

Software engineers are often advised to think like business people, but do engineers also have something to teach managers and entrepreneurs? Absolutely! In my role as technical director in Google ...

Nearly 1,000 U.S. construction workers died of work-related injuries each year from 2011 to 2020, with the industry accounting for 20% of all workplace deaths, even though it made up just 7.3% of the ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series on our local artists and their experiences in these turbulent times. The nature of an engineer is to step up to a challenge, says Seattle ...

An engineering mindset is valuable in almost any field. Using strong analytical skills, engineers solve problems and optimize processes. At the same time, they must be creative enough to visualize ...

Thanks to the wildly popular 1995 movie “Apollo 13,” the mantra “failure is not an option” is firmly entrenched in popular culture. But it’s another line from Oscar-nominated Ed Harris, portraying ...