Picture this heavyweight prize-fight match up: engineering’s logical and rational approach to problem solving versus the sometimes-street brawling style of public policy development. Put the two in a ...

A rendering of RoseMary’s Place apartments, now under construction in Midtown Houston. It will provide 149 units and services for homeless and other undeserved individuals. Developed by the NHP ...

The term wicked problem has become a standard way for policy analysts to describe a social issue whose solution is inherently elusive. Wicked problems have many causal factors, complex ...

Child maltreatment is what is known as a “wicked problem” –complex and difficult to resolve because it is so intertwined with a variety of intractable societal ills. Each year in the United States, ...

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.

The views expressed herein are mine alone as a 45-year power sector expert since 1980. In addition, I have been the pioneer Chairman and CEO of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), ...