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 ...

FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably a combination of a natural "act of God" and an engineering failure. On May 31, 1889, an 11-inch rain following an already wet spring led to the ...

Bad leaders, a complacent crew and maintenance cost-cutting by the Navy contributed to a series of engineering failures on the USS Boxer that prevented the ship from going to sea for more than one ...

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

Chinese engineers have managed to turn disaster into a masterful engineering feat by rescuing ...

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 ...