The Engineering Failures Education campaign is heating up
At the 18th anniversary of the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina, Levees.org kicked off the Engineering Failures Education (EFE) campaign. The EFE campaign aims to require all students working toward their Bachelor’s degree in engineering to receive instruction on engineering failures and the lessons they teach. The EFE campaign is going extremely well. The list […]
Levee Breach Event is #1 on List of USACE-caused disasters
Oregon Public Broadcasting (opb.org) has just issued an important list––9 times the US Army Corps of Engineers miscalculated badly at the expense of taxpayers, wildlife. Number one on the list is the failure of the levee system in New Orleans. We find that highly appropriate in light of the horrific loss of life, nearly 1400 […]
