Today's work environment presents engineers with complex challenges that demand holistic approaches.
In a harsh environment characterized by straightforward challenges that demanded quick responses, an indecisive caveman was a dead one.
The high heat fluxes dissipated by WBG devices pose extreme cooling challenges that demand the use of advanced thermal management technologies such as two-phase cooling.
It's become a trendy managerial acronym: VUCA, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, and a catchall for "Hey, it's crazy out there!" It's also misleading: VUCA conflates four distinct types of challenges that demand four distinct types of responses.
Three salient exceptions to this new legal buy paradigm are: (1) high value ('bet the company') matters that are price insensitive; (2) cross and multiple-border transactions/litigation; and (3) challenges that demand specialized expertise or influence not resident in-house.
When federal transportation officials demanded that New Jersey repay money already spent on the project, Mr. Christie hired Patton Boggs, a Washington law firm, to challenge that demand.
The party also faces economic challenges that will demand painful policy changes.
All of this amounts to a huge set of logistical challenges that has demanded collaboration with civic, government, non-profit, and corporate interests (Chicago Welcomes Home the Heroes secured their first major sponsor in United Health Care on the day that I met with De Phillips and Ipsen here in Hyde Park).
But with this budget, there will be challenges meeting that demand.
But the institutions also face unique financial challenges that demand creative solutions to keep the doors open and to help sustain the region.
CITRIS is one of four California Institutes for Science and Innovation, formed in 2000 and funded both by the state and industry to take on large-scale challenges that demand cross-disciplinary expertise.
