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 ...

The Los Angeles wildfires and severe spring thunderstorms are some of the natural disasters that have contributed to global ...

The collapse of the Brumadinho dam in 2019 remains one of the most tragic and devastating engineering failures in recent history. The rupture, which resulted in significant loss of life and ...

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

In the last year, extreme floods, fires, and storms wreaked havoc around the world. For the victims of these disasters, a whole other nightmare awaits them once the flames are contained and ...

While collecting this short list of engineering disasters, I decided that to qualify as a disaster, an event had to involve loss of life, and the larger the loss of life, the larger the disaster ...