What We Don’t Know About Chemical AccidentsAre incomplete statistics inherent in hazardous material accidents?
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 09:27
The April 17, 2013, fertilizer-plant explosion in West, Texas, that killed 15 and demolished a good part of the town was only the most recent of a number of accidents involving hazardous chemicals that have happened in Texas over the years. Home to… Printing GunsJust because you can doesn’t mean you should
Tue, 05/21/2013 - 11:52
Somebody was going to do it sooner or later. And we have Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, to thank for the fact that, when it was finally done for the first time, the news media learned about it right away. All the… Engineering the FutureDo we know what we’re doing?
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 10:33
I assume many readers are either engineers or interested in engineering and its effects on society, so what I am about to say may surprise you. It is simply this: Engineers are playing a role in American society that may end American society as we… The Day the Submarine Theater Flipped OverA tale about the value of failure for engineers
Tue, 09/18/2012 - 14:34
This is a story that, as far as I know, has never appeared in print before. It’s not exactly hot news—the incident happened in 1970—but it exemplifies Henry Petroski’s dictum that engineers often learn more from failure than success.
One of the big…
