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 ...

University of Wyoming Professor Michael Barker took this photo of Ground Zero in New York City while on a mission of recovery there shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (Michael Barker) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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