News and Events

06/2011

Final presentation of PS&ED fellows, 11:45 am – 1:45 pm, Friday, June 3, 2011,Tech B211.

04/2011

Professor Jim Berger will give a talk on "Risk Assessment for Pyroclastic Flows", April 21, 2011, 11 am - 12:00 noon, ITW Ford Building.

Introduction

Predictive Science and Engineering Design (PS&ED) is an interdisciplinary cluster program supported under the “Interdisciplinary Cluster Initiative” from the Northwestern University (NU) Graduate School. As an emerging paradigm, PS&ED enables a new level of integration of science and engineering by the deliberate transformation of scientific knowledge from a descriptive to a predictive form. The enrichment of this paradigm is critical to the simulation and design of innovative, complex “engineered” systems in a variety of applications across such diverse domains as microsystems, biological systems, energy harvesting and consumption systems, and efficient manufacturing systems.

The mission of the PS&ED cluster is to discover, develop, and teach the common principles and techniques underlying PS&ED. Currently, the PS&ED cluster is focusing on concurrent material and product design. The program aims to engage faculty in collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education and to provide graduate students an alternative intellectual community with “dual citizenship”.