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Serendipity led Northwestern Engineering’s Marco Nie into transportation research. Purpose, however, has fueled his ongoing commitment to the deeply interdisciplinary field, which holds far-reaching ...

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Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...

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At first glance, Amanda Stathopoulos seems a pinch out of place at Northwestern Engineering. After all, Stathopoulos is a trained economist intrigued by human behavior. On its surface, her work ...

Dynamic systems pays attention to patterns of change over time. Source: Drawing by A. Danvers “Personal histories are processes of change in time, and the change itself is one of the things ...

MILFORD, Conn. & LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--fwrd thinking has developed innovative RTLS technology which allows healthcare facilities to obtain better management of their hard assets, as well ...