The job of an engineer hasn’t changed in the 90 years since Machine Design first published. The role is still to improve the performance and lower the cost of problem-solving devices, as well as the ...

AI is rapidly becoming integral to engineering education, shifting student workflows from manual tasks to AI-assisted design, coding, and collaboration. Emerging 'agentic AI' systems can autonomously ...

QFD (quality function deployment) is a family of tools that can help engineers during the early stages of product development. A method of assessing options for new product definition, QFD can help ...

AI coding assistants have evolved extremely rapidly, fundamentally changing how engineers work. As tools like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT enable us to generate production-grade ...

Some engineers say that AI's rapid transformation of the industry serves as a microcosm for what's to come.

AI- and cloud-based engineering tools accelerate control system modernization efforts. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are having a moment right now, and many ...

AMES, Iowa – Researchers are developing machine learning tools to help them flip the design script and accelerate technology development. They’re not interested in the traditional, incremental, costly ...

Synera has raised $40M in a Series B to scale its agentic AI platform for engineering, already deployed at NASA, BMW, Airbus, ...

AMES, Iowa – The virtual cell culture on Sakib Ferdous’ 34-inch computer monitor started with 50 bright red diamonds spread across the screen, each representing an unprogrammed cell ready to be ...