Cranes are the backbone of modern construction, but sometimes they collapse with devastating results. This video explains why crane failures happen, using historical examples to reveal the dangers of ...

On05, Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana/Mississippi Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1,800 people dead and entire communities destroyed. The storm not only exposed vulnerabilities in levees and ...

Even after 20 years, certain misconceptions about Hurricane Katrina and what happened that fateful day in August 2005 persist.

The catastrophic implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible was not a freak accident, but the result of systematic flaws in ...

As company teams travel the globe, Kit Miyamoto says he hopes to achieve cross-pollination of best practices built both on the latest technical expertise of the engineering community and on ...

The collapse of the skywalks at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 remains one of the nation’s worst engineering disasters.

The collapse of the skywalks at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 remains one of the nation’s worst engineering disasters.

Triangle engineering classes are using the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge as a real-time teachable moment for students.

New research is being conducted to explore how engineers understand and navigate ethics on a day-to-day basis, prompting questions about how ethics education can be improved. Engineering disasters are ...