A bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh hours before President Joe Biden’s visit to the Pennsylvania city to talk about his infrastructure plan. 1-28-22
It’s come to the attention of Levees.org that civil engineering students are not being taught about the worst civil engineering disaster in US history.
Students are graduating without the crucial knowledge that engineering mistakes led to the collapse of the Army Corps of Engineers’ levees in New Orleans in August of 2005.
“There is no acknowledgment from academic institutions that they are responsible for instruction of “professional practice” issues, such as the applicable “standard of care” engineers can expect to be held to once they graduate and begin their practice,” says nationally renowned engineering expert J. David Rogers.
Levees.org has therefore launched a campaign urging the newly installed president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to lead the push for engineering students to learn about catastrophic engineering mistakes, including the levee breach disaster of 2005.
I think you should have mentioned that Sen. Inhofe DID NOT VOTE IN FAVOR of the funds for his state’s levy project. Nor did any other member of the GOP in the U.S. Senate.
Remember who your friends are, and aren’t.
Corps of Engineers? Nope. Inhofe? Nope. GOP? Nope.