The phrase "assign the problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a task or issue is being delegated to someone for resolution or analysis.
Example: "The manager decided to assign the problem to the engineering team for further investigation."
Alternatives: "delegate the issue" or "allocate the task".
Coach the employee on how to tackle the challenge, or assign the problem to others who can help.
They assign the problem to government- or community-relations directors, who court the favor of NGOs in backroom dialogues.
Irrespective of possible blurring of responsibilities, each government needs to make a call and assign the problem of pathological gambling to an appropriate agency or ministry.
You assign the problem to an illogical owner.
Running a simulation session as a batch job on multi-processor HPC hardware entails a certain amount of overhead, e.g., the time it takes to break up the job into smaller tasks and assign the problem to each processor on the front end and the data collection and storage on the back end.
The most basic way to do this is to assign the problems to your team.
What was the connection between the immunity and schizophrenia?" McCarroll assigned the problem to Aswin Sekar, a twenty-four-year-old student in his lab who was working toward an M.D.-Ph.D. at Harvard.
"It was my good fortune to be assigned the problem of designing a lapel pin for conference identification," Mr. McLaughlin wrote in "Origin of the Emblem and Other Recollections of the 1945 U.N. Conference," which he published in 1995.
Weiss had a very different idea for how to do it, and assigned the problem to his students, instructing them to design the simplest experiment they could to detect a gravitational wave.
We presented them to our supervisor, and he would say, "Don't bother me with details; we are in trouble in this area and need one person for guidance and I am this person". He assigns the problems.
When the teacher discusses the subject (probably before assigning the problems), ask questions that may occur to you (because of the work you have already done).
