The College of Engineering prides itself on building a research agenda that addresses society’s most pressing challenges. Faculty and students are on a journey of continual discovery that results in ...

Design can exist without "the research." But if we don't study the world, we don't always know how or what to create. Recently, my colleague Ben McAllister contributed a piece to this section called ...

As I hunched over my bathroom sink for the umpteenth time recently, I wondered why it was acceptable for most adults to bend over to about half our height multiple times a day. “Adjustable sinks – Why ...

The College of Engineering prides itself on building a research agenda that addresses society’s most pressing challenges. Faculty and students are on a journey of continual discovery that results in ...

Developing human-centered, physics-based, and AI-enabled design methods for creating engineering products and systems that address societal challenges Design combines engineering, business, the arts, ...

The Project on Impact Investments uses multi-method research to build insight that is both expansive in its focus and detailed in its analysis. We combine the study of the larger universe of impact ...

The idea of a think tank is not new. Traditionally found in politics, economics, or science, think tanks bring together experts to study complex problems and propose solutions. In architecture, their ...

Research in design involves systematically studying how artifacts are created and how they fit into different environments, such as virtual, physical, social, psychological, economic, and political ...

New research shows that museums' design decisions, often invisible to the visitor, play a decisive role in shaping attention, movement and discovery.

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...