On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake in the Sichuan province of China caused nearly 90,000 people to lose their lives, with hospitals and schools filled with children ...

Massive wildfires, major hurricanes and other natural disasters are occurring more frequently than in the past. A new National Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine (NASEM) report, which included ...

Brandon Runnels, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, often kicks off his undergraduate mechanics course by showing images from engineering disasters.

Using a simulated disaster scenario of a chemical accident on a highway near their school, Livonia High School students soon discovered how important geographic information systems and imaging science ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Triangle engineering schools are now using the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge as a teachable moment for students. Video of the incident can be difficult to watch. You ...

The in-depth story of the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel Collapse 2019. Three lives lost, dozens injured, and a city left in shock. The New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel became one of the city's worst ...

Graduate school was not always part of Casie Venable’s (PhDCivEngr’20) plan. Growing up, she had family members in the construction industry and was surrounded by people who had both a passion and ...

Disasters. Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Terrorist attacks. Climate change. All have the capacity for immense suffering. But such catastrophes also provide tremendous opportunities to enhance the ...

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 ...