Ordinarily, students in the McCormick School of Engineering’s Design Thinking and Communication course build functional projects for an external client with real-world applicability – a treadmill for wheelchair athletes, for example. But students in a Winter 2024 offering of the course built something a little less ordinary: small-scale printing presses inspired by the mechanics of […]
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The marriage of science and art seems like it could be an awkward one. Science is about finding definitive answers, while art’s purpose – to inspire, evoke and communicate — is harder to define. But the two disciplines can borrow from each other and even unite to tackle important cultural work, which Dario Robleto illustrated during his […]
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With science and engineering proceeding at a pace that far outruns known ethical standards, Artist-at-Large Dario Robleto returns to campus to continue conversations surrounding the intersection of the humanities and engineering. Launched three years ago, Northwestern Engineering’s unique Artist-at-Large program works in partnership with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art to embed an artist within the McCormick […]
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