As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude are so resource-hungry that tech companies ...

Eighty-six years after America's worst civil engineering disaster, the lessons appear painfully obvious. Engineers now know that each big project has its own set of unique challenges; there's no ...

Graduate school was not always part of Casie Venable’s (PhDCivEngr’20) plan. Growing up, she had family members in the construction industry and was surrounded by people who had both a passion and ...

On the night of 9 October 1963, one of the worst dam-related disasters in European history unfolded in northern Italy. A ...

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 ...

More than 35 years later, the post-mortem on one of the country's worst engineering disasters appears to be simple. A contractor asked for a change in an original design. The change was approved by ...

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 ...

The October 2018 and March 2019 crashes of Boeing 737 MAX 8 airliners killed 346 passengers and crewmembers and caused sorrow and grief for many times that number of family members and friends. Those ...

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 ...

Ilham Siddiq survived the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami and is now using his firsthand disaster knowledge to evaluate the effectiveness of recovery policies. Siddiq, a civil ...