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 ...

Imagine a plane so large it could carry 5000 people with restaurants, shopping malls, hospitals and even a sky deck at 35,000 ...

The trip proved transformational for Miyamoto, both personally and for his privately held company. Although the firm had begun to foray into international disaster and recovery contracting in the ...

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.

Truly one of the world’s weirdest engineering disasters, and a reminder that small miscalculations can result in catastrophic screw-ups.

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 ...

Dr. Hessam Ghassemi, also a WakeTech Engineering Professor, assigned a class last week to research engineering disasters and he expects students to make presentations around the Maryland incident.