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 ...

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 ...

The divide between engineering and executive leadership is rarely about technical literacy. It’s alignment. When engineering leaders frame wins in terms of cost, risk, revenue, strategic objectives ...

Industrial organizations can prevent repeated maintenance problems by treating knowledge management as preventive maintenance ...

NASA on Thursday released the findings of an independent investigation into the troubled crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, formally classifying the mission as a Type A mishap — the ...

Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for its tendency to bend and undulate, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge had just opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. In a now infamous failure, in the face of moderate winds the ...

Engineering failures rarely begin with a single bad calculation. They begin when critical information doesn’t surface—an anomaly ignored, a question unasked, a hesitation swallowed because someone ...

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss traceability and the lack of data needed to perform root cause analysis with Frank Chen, director of applications and product ...