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 ...

Abstract: Aerospace engineers constantly face “wicked problems,” which are ill-defined and complex sociotechnical problems with undefined and often-shifting constraints and requirements. However, the ...

The breakdown of AC is an example of what Nash says is known as "the wicked problem." He credits sociologist Robert Merton with identifying consequences of complex system change as intended, ...

In this two-part team project, students investigate a "Wicked Problem" (a complex water sustainability issue) and present their findings through an Assertion-Evidence presentation and a research ...