DESIGNING THE FUTURE: AN ENGINEERING KEYNOTE SPEAKER ON FUTURE TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS

02 Aug DESIGNING THE FUTURE: AN ENGINEERING KEYNOTE SPEAKER ON FUTURE TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS

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Today’s question for an engineering futurist and keynote speaker: What are some new technology shifts and emerging disruptions that are hitting the field? While we could write an entire book summarizing all of them, we thought we might offer some food for thought below to start. All that said, how about we get right into it without further delay? Courtesy of your favorite engineering futurists and keynote speakers, following are some major trends and future directions anticipated in the engineering field:

  • Automation – Robotics, AI, and intelligent systems will continue disrupting and changing the engineering landscape across disciplines. Automating repetitive tasks will be a priority – no secret among engineering futurists and keynote speakers.
  • Advanced materials – New smart materials like biomaterials, nanomaterials, meta-materials with superior properties and functionality will open up innovations.
  • Sustainability – Principles of sustainable engineering, renewable energy, circular economy, and net zero emissions will influence engineering design and processes.
  • Big data analytics – Handling big data sets and analytical techniques will become crucial for evidence-based design, predictive maintenance, software development and more.
  • Human-technology integration – Seamless integration of engineering with human users through products like wearables, VR/AR, exoskeletons, neural interfaces etc.
  • Interdisciplinarity – Cross-collaboration between engineering disciplines as well as non-technical fields like business, social sciences etc. will grow more common engineering futurists and keynote speakers tell us.
  • Virtual engineering – Use of simulations and digital twins will enable rapid virtual prototyping, testing and monitoring from concept through deployment.
  • Customization – Design for mass customization rather than mass production through innovations like 3D printing, flexible manufacturing etc.
  • Security – Cybersecurity as well as physical infrastructure security against human/environmental threats will be a high priority across fields.
  • Multiscale modeling – Ability to understand and seamlessly link models across vastly different scales (atomic to visible) becomes more critical.

 

Looking to top engineering futurists and keynote speakers, adapting engineering education and integrating emerging tools like AI, IoT, cloud computing will be key to keep pace with these trends.