Engineering is not often billed as an adrenaline infused profession. Indeed, introducing yourself as an engineer at a party likely won’t earn you the admiring ooh’s and ahh’s that, say, a fireman, or ...

When Edenville Dam failed, it sent a massive flood wave that quickly overwhelmed Sanford Dam downstream, causing over $200 ...

In California, the biggest dam disaster ever was the failure of the Saint Francis Dam, near Los Angeles on March 12, 1928. This is also considered by some to be the worst engineering disaster of ...

The field of engineering evolves daily. The marvels of engineering far outweigh the failures/disasters.

The collapse of the skywalks at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 remains one of the nation’s worst engineering disasters.

The collapse of the skywalks at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 remains one of the nation’s worst engineering disasters.

His incompetent and slipshod engineering was blamed for the disaster and the deaths, and this was only his most serious blunder.