A 1993 mystic on the nature of AI
Lisa Eitel April 27, 2025
In the years leading up to his death in 1993, my father, a kind of eccentric mystic welder, journaled and wrote me philosophical little notes that I immensely treasure.
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AI in the engineering classroom: promise, pitfalls, and the path forward
Emma Lutjen May 12, 2026
As AI tools rapidly make their way into classrooms and workflows, engineering educators are grappling with how to use them without losing the fundamentals. EEWorld interviewed Robert W. Heath Jr., 2025 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal recipient and Charles Lee Powell Chair in Wireless Communications at the University of California, San Diego, who shares a candid perspective on where AI helps, where it hinders, and what it really means to educate and be an engineer in the age of intelligent tools.
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Avoiding multimillion-dollar failures in BESS with early-stage simulation
Mike Santora April 28, 2026
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are becoming essential for advancing renewable energy, allowing excess power produced during low-demand periods to be stored and used when demand increases. As adoption grows, so do the associated engineering hurdles, especially in thermal design. Ineffective thermal management can hinder a system’s ability to release heat during peak usage, resulting in…
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Bridging theory and reality in wireless communications: a candid talk with Andrea Goldsmith
Emma Lutjen May 28, 2026
In this wide-ranging conversation, Andrea Goldsmith reflects on a career that has helped define modern wireless communications, from foundational work in channel capacity and adaptive modulation to shaping MIMO, AI-driven systems, and the road to 6G. One of the field’s most influential voices, and recipient of the 2025 IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal for her contributions to and leadership in wireless communications theory and practice (just one of many honors in a career spanning academia, industry, and university leadership), she speaks candidly about her foundational work in the industry, the importance of diversity, and the need for boldness and collaboration in driving engineering excellence.
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Edge AI without the guesswork: designing for real battery life, real performance, and real workloads
Aimee Kalnoskas June 17, 2026
Edge AI is no longer experimental. From wearables and medical sensors to smart home devices, industrial monitors, and infrastructure nodes, products are increasingly expected to sense, analyze, and make decisions locally while operating for months or even years on small batteries. This requirement has turned ultra-low-power system design into one of the most complex challenges […]
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Empowering people: how AI is revolutionizing work from the top floor to the shop floor
Rachael Pasini June 2, 2026
Accessibility is key as AI continues to transform manufacturing. By embedding AI steadily and responsibly into workflows using the crawl, walk, run, fly framework, businesses can deploy analytical AI tools swiftly and agilely. Rahul Garg • VP for Industrial Machinery Vertical Software Strategy | Siemens Digital Industries Software The AI revolution is here and accelerating.…
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Engineering Stargate: why AI’s next leap is a systems engineering problem
Lionel Grealou June 18, 2026
What began as a strategic response to rising compute scarcity has quickly evolved into one of the most ambitious industrial infrastructure projects in tech.
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Forget AI, what about the Quantum age?
Paul Heney May 28, 2026
One of the more interesting conversations I had at the recent Hannover Messe Press Preview in Germany was with Nikola Strah, Commercial Director for Classiq, a six-year-old Tel Aviv, Israel-based company with more than 100 employees. The company has a platform for programming quantum computers. Strah said that Classiq is currently the best funded quantum…
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From chain-of-thought to agentic AI: the next inflection point
Lionel Grealou June 29, 2026
AI that thinks versus AI that acts. Autonomously. Systemically. At scale.
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How “green” is your Artificial Intelligence?
Jeff Shepard June 14, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems face a set of conflicting goals: being accurate (consuming large amounts of computational power and electrical power) and being accessible (being lower in cost, less computationally intensive, and less power-hungry). Unfortunately, many of today’s AI implementations are environmentally unsustainable. Improvements in AI energy efficiency will be driven by several factors, including […]
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Industrial AI isn’t really about AI at all
Michael Ouellette June 3, 2026
AI is not the transformation; it’s the instrument revealing where transformation is needed.
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Mind over Machine: AI vs. Human Insight: What’s Missing?
Mike Santora May 28, 2026
In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how we work, communicate, and make decisions, it’s easy to assume that nearly every challenge has a data-driven solution. But as powerful as these tools have become, there are still critical gaps, e specially when it comes to human interaction. The nuances of conversation, the unspoken signals, and the subtle disconnects between what is said and what is meant remain difficult for even the most advanced systems to fully interpret.
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Mind over Machine: From problem to prototype in a week, A conversation with Sean Petterson of Supersede
Mike Santora May 11, 2026
In this episode of Mind Over Machine Design World managing editor Mike Santora is in conversation with Sean Peterson, CEO and co-founder of Supersede. As part of the show’s focus on real-world engineering insight, Santora asks Peterson to share a best practice or example from his career where an effective solution required thinking beyond what…
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Mind over Machine with Avnet’s Alex Iuorio: Rigid processes, real consequences
Mike Santora May 29, 2026
On this episode of Mind Over Machine, Mike Santora, managing editor of Design World, sits down with Alex Iuorio, Senior Vice President of Global Supplier Development at Avnet, for a fast, pointed conversation about something machines still can’t replicate: human judgment.
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“Solve the hardest problem first,” Alex Lidow on winning the GaN race
Emma Lutjen May 5, 2026
At APEC 2026, EPC CEO Alex Lidow spoke with EEWorld Director Aimee Kalnoskas and Power Electronics Author Jeff Shepard for a conversation that goes far beyond GaN hype. From pioneering GaN adoption in AI server boards and scaling “apex” applications like humanoid robotics, to navigating fierce competition, IP battles, and shifting US innovation policy, Lidow […]
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Supply Chains, AI, and the human factor: Insights from a supply chain geek
Mike Santora June 2, 2026
In the business landscape we’re navigating today, few components impact the bottom line quite like supply chain management. Perhaps more importantly, few elements of a business affect the overall experience for human end-users like a supply chain operating at maximum efficiency. Rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence are revolutionizing how factories strategize, how goods move,…
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The top AI tools of 2026
Nikhil Agnihotri June 29, 2026
Just a couple of years ago, most AI tools still felt experimental. Impressive enough to demo at a meeting but rarely integrated into daily workflows. Things have changed quickly. In 2026, artificial intelligence has woven itself into how we draft, code, design, research, manage teams, and communicate. The tools are no longer experimental. They’re operational.…
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VIDEO: AI and language translation, turning multilingual chaos into operational clarity
Mike Santora May 28, 2026
In this video interview, Mike Santora, Managing Editor of Design World, sits down with Falk Gottlob of Smartcat to explore how AI-powered language orchestration is transforming global manufacturing. While translation has long been treated as a back-end task, Gottlob explains why it’s actually central to operational speed, safety, and compliance. From technical manuals and SOPs to supplier communications and product updates, multilingual content is the connective tissue of modern industrial enterprises, and too often, it’s a bottleneck.
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Video: Avnet’s Alex Iuorio on AI, electronics, and fostering supply chain resilience
Mike Santora May 29, 2026
Mike Santora, managing editor of Design World Magazine, interviews Alex Iuorio, Senior Vice President of Global Supplier Development at Avnet.
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Video: Simon Ford of Blecon on smarter supply chains with BLE
Mike Santora May 28, 2026
As supply chains grow more complex and less centralized, traditional approaches to tracking and visibility are beginning to show their limits. Fixed infrastructure, once the backbone of asset tracking within factories and warehouses, is struggling to keep pace with today’s distributed, fast-changing logistics networks. Companies now need visibility that extends beyond controlled environments…
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Why small language models win at the Edge
EEWorld Online Editor June 27, 2026
By Pietro Antonio Ciclese, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Ambarella The workloads that generate the most commercial value in edge AI scenarios run under power and thermal constraints that are, to put it mildly, very far from those found in data centers. Take, for example, a vision camera used for surveillance or inspection. These often draw […]
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