Imagine the following problem: we are trying to send trash into space to prevent it from accumulating on Earth, but we are not yet able to do so efficiently. How could we solve this? When I posed this question to my undergraduate engineering students during the Ecodesign course , one of the proposed solutions was […] … learn more→
Tag Archives: problem solving
Not everything that is possible is desirable: what philosophy contributes to engineering
Concluding well: writing a plausible So What
Writing a paper or setting up a piece of research often involves a problem or a puzzle. You’ve identified something that needs to be sorted and you’re just the person to do it. At the start, problems tend to present themselves as either practical – there is something that is going on that is difficult/inequitable/could be […] … learn more→
