The Cocoanut Grove Fire: When Egress Became the Disaster ( Andrey Version)
Love Canal remains one of the most important environmental engineering disasters in American history because it showed that hazardous waste does not disappear when it is buried.
The July Ethical Dilemma: Non-Compete Employment Agreement
Was it ethical for Engineer Mike to include the this clause in an employment agreement?
July 2026 Pop Quiz for Engineers
Celebrate 250 years of American ingenuity with this month’s Pop Quiz for Engineers worthy of a founding engineer. From bold ideas to solid fundamentals, test the knowledge that helped build a nation.
Riddle Me This: The Debugging Challenge
Can you debug this line of code and uncover the hidden word? Put your puzzle-solving skills to the test in this edition of Riddle Me This.
Could Rough Be the New Smooth?
Smoother surfaces usually mean less resistance—but not always. A recent Tohoku University study found that microscopic distributed roughness reduced measured drag on a streamlined wind-tunnel model under specific transitional-flow conditions, offering engineers a fascinating reminder that even reliable design rules can have carefully engineered exceptions.
The Imperial Sugar Refinery Explosions: When Combustible Dust Became a Catastrophic Fuel
NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter was lost during Mars orbit insertion after a unit-conversion mismatch between ground software systems caused navigation errors. The failure remains one of engineering’s most important lessons in interface verification, systems communication, and unit consistency.