Fighting a two-front battle is never an ideal arrangement, but it is something we must consider. After all, we will almost certainly face another natural disaster in the coming year, on top of the ...

These ideas were obvious failures before they were even built, and yet, they were built anyways. Many people looked at this "car" with it's one wheel at the front and said "this is a good idea, and a ...

When you dig into the details of most engineering disasters, human error shows up again and again. Recently, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ...

Whatever happened to the ethics of engineering? We’ve seen just one disastrous news story after another these past few years, almost all knowable and preventable. Planes falling out of the sky.

Engineering is not often billed as an adrenaline infused profession. Indeed, introducing yourself as an engineer at a party likely won’t earn you the admiring ooh’s and ahh’s that, say, a fireman, or ...

The National Corvette Museum sinkhole incident will be something we will remember forever, as nothing quite like it has ever happened before. Well, sinkholes have, but they haven’t swallowed priceless ...

Human ingenuity, our ceaseless drive to invent, create, and build, is one of our species’s greatest strengths. But sometimes people just don’t know what the hell they’re doing. Here are the most ...

In recent weeks, hurricanes destroyed an estimated 185,000 homes in Texas, 25% of the housing in the Florida Keys and at least 60,000 homes in Puerto Rico. In northern California, this week’s ...

Editor's note: Here is another neat guest tech article from my friend and colleague, Jerry Steele, Applications Manager, ON Semiconductor. A bit of nostalgia and tech info combined with an ...

So begins a typical episode of Well There’s Your Problem, a self-described “podcast with slides” on YouTube. Each installment explores a different engineering ...

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 ...