To connect explanation to creation, education and practice are converging. The CDIO Initiative (Conceive–Design–Implement–Operate, 2004) and NASA’s Systems Engineering Handbook (2007) emphasize lifecycle thinking, integration, and verification. Interdisciplinary studios blend science, design, and policy so graduates can move ideas from paper to planet.
In closing, the scientist’s fidelity to what is and the engineer’s commitment to what could be are mutually enabling. Our most humane futures will emerge when these mindsets travel together—from discovery, to design, to stewardship. [...]
