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 ...

Necessity is often said to be the mother of invention. Vermont engineer and hydrologist Stephen Farrington is proving that disaster can also be the impetus for creative problem-solving. Vermont news ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The engineer of an Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, went “from distraction to disaster” in a matter of seconds because he was so focused on ...

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 ...

ITBAYAT, Philippines – U.S. Army engineers with the 523rd Engineer Support Company, 84th Engineer Battalion, 130th Engineer Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, conducted a dedication ceremony ...

Here's how Chinese engineers rescued a failed tunnel boring machine by guiding a second one to meet it under a river.

Engineering has built the most spectacular wonders of the modern world, but what happens when the technology that people trust their lives with fails? Premiering on HISTORY Saturday, April 11 at 10 PM ...

Resilience to disasters is not optional — it is essential to public safety, national security, economic prosperity and ...

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San Diego aerospace engineer Wesley Melvin Dreyer spent decades pushing the boundaries of aviation—from developing top-secret defense projects to helping uncover the cause of the Challenger disaster.

ENR editor Tom Sawyer traveled extensively to project sites, disaster areas and war zones far afield and close to home. As the last entry in ENR's 150th anniversary coverage, he offers some thoughts ...