In Conversation: Shephard’s Gerrard Cowan talks to Pearson Engineering group chief executive officer Ian Bell about how the company is turning to new technologies to provide critical protection and ...

One of the greatest impacts of the industrial revolution was that better communication allowed for greater specialization, and with that came better economics. There have been multiple waves of the ...

During the Fourth Industrial Revolution, known as Industry 4.0, industrial processes and manufacturing shifted toward ...

In the field of economic history, the causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution loom large. Competing theories point to the role of institutions, scientific achievements, and bourgeois ...

Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between the world before and after. We attribute the 18th and 19th centuries to such a period. Named the Industrial ...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists has uncovered new evidence showing that the health impacts of the Industrial ...

Northwestern Engineering faculty fellow Mark Mills doesn’t view the Industrial Revolution as the result of a single cause. Rather, he considers it a confluence of three separate technological and ...

Manufacturing engineer jobs and industrial engineer jobs share similarities. They both require technical knowledge, management skills, and manufacturing expertise. But manufacturing engineer jobs and ...

We’re on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0. It’s quite different than the three Industrial Revolutions that preceded it—steam and water power, electricity and assembly ...