The problem of heat and mass transfer within a porous catalytic pellet in which an irreversible first-order exothermic reaction occurs is a much-studied problem in chemical-reactor engineering. The ...

In my last post I described a variety of new analytically focused degree programs that are emerging at some universities. In this one I want to caution readers against the problem in universities that ...

Analytical, detail-focused thinkers thrive in today’s job market, with careers in data, finance, technology and engineering ...

Psychological scientists have long known that the amount of information we can actively hold in mind at any given time – known as working memory – is limited. Our working memory capacity reflects our ...

Professor Sid Deshmukh sets a high bar for his <i>Analytical Decision Modeling</i> class: He seeks to make it fun 7/20/2010 - Spending a few hours with Excel is tantamount to getting a root canal for ...

Last week, I talked about the free news problem. In thinking about how to follow that up, I ran across an interesting study that was published earlier this year in the Science Advances journal. One of ...

Analytical reasoning as a style of questioning has become very popular with examiners in recent years. XLRI has been carrying questions on analytical reasoning in abundance for quite a few years now.