November Pop Quiz for Engineers
Will your score on this month's quiz be FOWL? Here's the November 2021 Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?
Riddle Me This: The Game Show
Choose a door out of three. Open the first to a losing door. Do you switch after?
The Construction of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of California. Initially designed by engineer Joseph Baermann Strauss in 1917, the Golden Gate Bridge links San Francisco and Marin County and spans the Golden Gate Strait, which separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean ...
The Hartford Center Collapse
On the evening of 18 January 1978, nearly 5,000 spectators watched a basketball game in the three-year-old Hartford Center. It was the jewel of an urban renewal program in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, and boasted the largest single span of roof ever lifted into place as a complete unit. The roof was an engineering marvel ...
The October Ethical Dilemma: Town Engineer
Harry, a professional engineer in private practice, has been retained by Edgetown as the town engineer. The Edgetown Planning Board...
October Pop Quiz for Engineers
Don't be spooked by this month's quiz! Here's the October 2021 Pop Quiz for Engineers. Are you smarter than an undergraduate?
Riddle Me This: Haunted Hotel
How will Alan and Bob transfer a valuable ring while avoiding ghosts and thieves?
Five Women Who Have Broken New Ground in Engineering
Although not widely known, a small number of women have achieved impressive engineering accomplishments that have changed the way the world lives, works, and plays ...
The Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill
In 2008, the energy company BP received a permit to drill a subsurface oil well in the Gulf of Mexico called the Macondo well. For this project, BP chartered the 10-year-old rig Deepwater Horizon from its owner, Transocean. Halliburton was responsible for cementing work ...
The September Ethical Dilemma: Ethics Complaint
During the rendering of services to Client B on this project, the state board of professional engineers contacts Charles regarding an ethics complaint filed...