Eighty-six years after America's worst civil engineering disaster, the lessons appear painfully obvious. Engineers now know that each big project has its own set of unique challenges; there's no ...

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster A Nuclear Engineer Reacts to The Infographics Show. A nuclear engineer reacts to the Fukushima disaster, examining the reactor accident, its causes, and the engineering ...

Graduate school was not always part of Casie Venable’s (PhDCivEngr’20) plan. Growing up, she had family members in the construction industry and was surrounded by people who had both a passion and ...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is being used by engineers to model airflow around both buildings and cranes, and to account for the shielding and acceleration caused by nearby structures.

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 ...

More than 35 years later, the post-mortem on one of the country's worst engineering disasters appears to be simple. A contractor asked for a change in an original design. The change was approved by ...