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 ...

It took engineers nearly half a century to determine why the SS Schenectady, while docked quietly in a harbor off Portland, Ore. one day, suddenly snapped in half. For local residents, the event was ...

On the night of 9 October 1963, one of the worst dam-related disasters in European history unfolded in northern Italy. A ...

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 ...