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 ...

As company teams travel the globe, Kit Miyamoto says he hopes to achieve cross-pollination of best practices built both on the latest technical expertise of the engineering community and on ...

Cranes are the backbone of modern construction, but sometimes they collapse with devastating results. This video explains why crane failures happen, using historical examples to reveal the dangers of ...

On05, Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana/Mississippi Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1,800 people dead and entire communities destroyed. The storm not only exposed vulnerabilities in levees and ...

You can’t fully appreciate the valuable contributions of man-made innovations in science and technology without thinking of the challenges and missteps they had to hurdle to eventually get them ...

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

One pattern that binds all of these engineering disasters together is that they all had whistleblowers who were aware of the looming danger before it happened.

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

While we must continue fighting the pandemic, we cannot neglect to prevent other natural disasters and environmental calamities from wreaking havoc on our communities. Smarter engineering can help.