We call them engineering disasters. But is that a misnomer? Certainly tons of the “engineering disasters” of the 20 th Century had nothing to do with the engineer. Many of those calamities came from ...

It took engineers nearly half a century to determine why the SS Schenectady, while docked quietly in a harbor off Portland, Ore. one day, suddenly snapped in half. For local residents, the event was ...

Dr. Andres Kwasinski, professor in the department of computer engineering and director of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. program, is the co-author of a new book titled “Resilience ...

Reliability engineering is a critical discipline that integrates engineering principles with advanced statistical techniques to ensure that products perform consistently over their intended lifespan.

This infographic visually summarizes the research background and the proposed framework, which can help improve the resilience of coastal communities to seismic events. Tsunamis and earthquakes pose ...

As companies continue shifting mission-critical systems to the cloud, they’re discovering that 24/7/365 reliability isn’t a given. Even brief outages can interrupt sales, slow internal workflows and ...