Classic cars people loved that turned out to be engineering nightmares Some automobiles capture hearts with stunning looks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

We call them engineering disasters. But is that a misnomer? Certainly tons of the “engineering disasters” of the 20 th Century had nothing to do with the engineer. Many of those calamities came from ...

Here are some shows where you can really see some gear crunch. They’re part of the History Channel’s Modern Marvels series, which cover (as you may expect) the major works, megastructures, and, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...