Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

Every organization is facing the same problem: engineering teams don’t lack data. They lack context for that data.

Rural youth are uniquely attached to their communities and may be discouraged from pursuing engineering careers because of the misconception that they would have to leave their communities to do so.

Agentic systems introduce additional complexity because they often involve long-running, multi-step processes spanning ...

Your AI isn't broken, your data context is; you need solid data engineering to bridge the gap between a smart model and a reliable, real-world business agent. Most enterprise AI investments today ...