Elif Miskioglu | The Science of How to Build Engineering Intuition

Being an Engineer · 18 Sept 2026 · 54m · Episode 39

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Elif Miskioğlu, an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University, discusses her research on engineering intuition, supported by a $650,000 NSF CAREER Award. She defines intuition as the subconscious leveraging of prior experience and explains that it requires six to ten years of domain-specific expertise to develop reliably. Miskioğlu highlights the critical role of metacognition—knowing what you know and don't know—and the importance of psychological safety and reflection in accelerating this skill. She also warns against cognitive entrenchment, where experts might miss anomalies due to overconfidence.

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Companies: Bucknell University, University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, The Ohio State University
Also: NSF CAREER Award

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