Optimizing A Faster, Smarter, and Easier World
Big data plus increasing computational power empower researchers to use optimization algorithms to build a better world on a grander scale.
A Race Against Time: Developing Diagnostics For The Developing World
The Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies tailors medical diagnostics to meet life or death challenges in the developing world.
Startups Grow Up: Success Stories From The Front
Post graduation, these Northwestern Engineering alumni and their startups continue to make a positive impact in health, education, technology, and advertising.
Flexible Thinking, Expansive Ideas
Professor John Rogers bends historically rigid ideas about electronics to create new medical monitoring and treatment devices that flex and stretch with the human body.
Five Things We Can Do To Be Cybersecure
How secure are you online? Professor Yan Chen Suggests five behaviors that can help make you more cybersecure.
Data Diving To Save Coral
New tools could play important role in the race to save coral reefs from climate change.
A Winding Road To Success
Entrepreneur David Pessis (MSIT '09) juggled graduate studies and a startup launch before helping guide PointDrive to a successful acquisition.
At Play In The Space Between Digital and Real
With a passion for tangible digital design, Felix Hu ('14) moves from research to reality with a game that teaches kids to code.
Shaping The Future of Materials Technology
At Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Charlie Kuehmann (PhD '94) is driving materials engineering into the future.
Invested In Technology
Venture capitalist and telecommunications pioneer Priscilla Lu (PhD '80) is advancing innovations in China's health care technology and clean tech sectors.
Of Ales, Porters, and Stouts
Dave Burns ('95, MS '96, and Kellogg '02) drives Lake Bluff Brewing from personal vision to award-winning enterprise.