The field of engineering evolves daily. The marvels of engineering far outweigh the failures/disasters. These failures and/or disasters result when engineers and designers push boundaries by building ...

Engineering failures supply a substantial amount to discuss, but also of interest are those quirky details of why something was designed a certain way. <BR><BR>An ...

Automation is necessary, but it can bring an "automation paradox": Speed without insight may simply propagate errors faster ...

Insight into Hurricane Katrina told by those who lived through it. How systemic failures from local and national government agencies helped throw the disaster into overdrive. How responses to national ...

Vasudevan Subramani is a senior technology leader with more than two decades of experience designing and governing large ...

Soluble rocks, such as limestone and dolomite, can create karst formations, including caves, gullies, and troughs, due to ...

The collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in 2020 resulted from a confluence of factors, including Hurricane Maria's damage, an unprecedented engineering failure involving spelter sockets, and a failure ...

The global modern industry is a massive operation that works on a scale almost impossible to comprehend. At every stage, it ...