Narrow math tests inevitably drive down real standards because accountability pressures principals and teachers to teach to the test. Conversely, well-engineered tests of the math we actually want ...

The students huddled around their tables, scribbling and erasing their notes, nodding and shaking their heads and rearranging the blocks in front of them. “There has to be a hole in the middle.” “We ...

Final-year projects have used engineering maths to detect ocean pollution, design nanoparticles that target cancerous cells, and suppress flutter in aerofoils.

The Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM) at Northwestern University is highly interdisciplinary and focused on applications. Our faculty and students connect with ...

Even though our teenage children may not show it the proper appreciation (yet), math is often referred to as the “universal language.” And it is, even in EDA. Whenever I’m asked what the heck I do in ...