AI approach takes optical system design from months to milliseconds

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...
Semiconductor Engineering

From Specification To Chip: A Holistic Design Approach

Chip design is getting more and more challenging in terms of power, performance, area and IP integration. At the same time, competition and time-to-market are forcing much tighter schedules. The ...
Frontiers

Design as a learning opportunity in biology lessons—a cross-domain STEM approach and its impact on biological subject knowledge

There is a broad consensus in politics, economy and science about the importance of promoting STEM competences. To promote STEM skills in the classroom, we propose a cross-domain approach combining ...
The Australian

‘Design Thinking’ approach to messy problems may be the best solution

For the first time, we will acquire nuclear-powered submarines which will severely test the organisational culture of Defence and its established procurement practices. The nation will face ...
BBC

How Viking's unique approach to design elevates comfort and exploration at sea

When you think of cruise ship design, you might imagine enormous crystal chandeliers, neon-lit casinos or showy waterslides. Yet, in a sea of extravagance and excess, Viking is charting its own course ...
ssir.org

Human-Centered, Systems-Minded Design

For some time, Jill Vialet felt there were deep problems with the substitute teaching system in the United States. Vialet had seen these problems during her years of work as founder and CEO of ...
Frontiers

A co-design approach for stakeholder engagement and knowledge integration in flood risk management in Vhembe district, South Africa

1 Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa 2 African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa ...
EDN

Sub-Threshold Design – A Revolutionary Approach to Eliminating Power

Editor’s note: Low power IC solutions are in great demand with the rapid advancement of handheld devices, wearables, smart cards and the IoT bringing a massive amount of new products to market that ...