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Gulf oil disaster

  • Man Made Disasters: Where Were the Engineers?

    Unlike most man made disasters, climate change is happening slowly, it has thousand and thousand of CO2 sources, and the effects will not be known for decades. Who should make the critical decisions about projects that might damage the environment; the government, the managers, the scientists, or the engineers? Read more

  • The Gulf Oil Disaster: Where Were the Engineers?

    The Challenger Disaster was caused by an engineering ethics failure. Where were the engineers when the key decisions were made that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster? Read more