In 1978, General Motors revealed its 'revolutionary' 350 V8 diesel engine... which turned out to be one of the most terrible ...

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 ...

Insight into Hurricane Katrina told by those who lived through it. How systemic failures from local and national government agencies helped throw the disaster into overdrive. How responses to national ...

Ruinenberg in Potsdam began as Frederick the Great’s failed 18th-century water project but evolved into a romantic landscape of ruins and towers. Today, visitors can explore its history, enjoy ...

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 ...

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss how increasing complexity in semiconductor and packaging technology is driving shifts in failure analysis methods, with Frank Chen, ...

Engineering failures rarely begin with a single bad calculation. They begin when critical information doesn’t surface—an anomaly ignored, a question unasked, a hesitation swallowed because someone ...

Yield ramp has always been a concern in semiconductor manufacturing: systems companies need confidence that devices meet ...