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 ...

“Leaks caused loss of main tank pressure during the coast and re-entry phase. Lot of good data to review.” With these few sentences, Elon Musk summarized the wake of SpaceX’s ninth Starship test ...

“Everybody likes to look at car crashes, everybody likes to see houses explode.” It’s a sentiment you’d expect from a programmer for the Fox network, but not necessarily from a professor. Yet it was ...

Many large-scale government technology initiatives are failing due to an exodus of qualified systems engineers away from the public sector to private industry. An in-depth analysis of the problem ...

In recent months, disasters are unfortunately on the minds of too many Americans. The loss of life and infrastructure are overwhelming and we all pray that new lessons are learned to help prevent ...

On June 24, 2021, a portion of Champlain Towers South, a 12-story condominium in Surfside, Florida, near Miami Beach, collapsed around 1:30 am. It was one of the most deadly structural collapses in ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Just weeks after defending emergency response times for the fire department, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa promised on Monday to come up with answers for why the LAPD dispatch system ...

Zachary del Rosario receives funding from the National Science Foundation and Toyota Research Institute. Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for its tendency to bend and undulate, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ...