The American Society of Engineers has decided against filing ethical misconduct charges against any of its executives following a 13-month internal probe into allegations that they and the Army Corps ...

Yida Zhang is deeply passionate about assessing the stability of dams, but his approach is unconventional. Rather than studying the large aging structures, his research zeroes in on the tiny sand ...

Ninety years ago this week, the worst civil engineering failure in California history claimed more than 450 lives and left a path of staggering destruction. The St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito ...

Civil engineer, author and educator Henry Petroski died June 14 at age 81, his longtime employer, Duke University, announced. The cause was cancer, The New York Times reported, citing his wife, ...

The collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in 2020 resulted from a confluence of factors, including Hurricane Maria's damage, an unprecedented engineering failure involving spelter sockets, and a failure ...