The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Growing up in Zambia, Choolwe Mandona did not always plan on becoming an engineer. “I actually was pretty afraid to do engineering,” said Choolwe, who graduated from Miami University in 2013 with a ...

The Engineering Design Process is a set of steps that engineers use to find a solution to a problem. The problems they solve can be very complex, like sending people to the Moon, or very simple, like ...

Modern optimization theory, algorithms, and applications in process engineering. Topics include the fundamentals of linear programming, integer programming, nonlinear programming, mixed-integer ...