On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake in the Sichuan province of China caused nearly 90,000 people to lose their lives, with hospitals and schools filled with children ...

The system aims to identify whether structures have major, minor or no damage by analyzing aerial photographs taken by drones ...

University of Wyoming Professor Michael Barker took this photo of Ground Zero in New York City while on a mission of recovery there shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (Michael Barker) ...

Brandon Runnels, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, often kicks off his undergraduate mechanics course by showing images from engineering disasters.

Using a simulated disaster scenario of a chemical accident on a highway near their school, Livonia High School students soon discovered how important geographic information systems and imaging science ...

Massive wildfires, major hurricanes and other natural disasters are occurring more frequently than in the past. A new National Academy of Sciences Engineering Medicine (NASEM) report, which included ...

New research is being conducted to explore how engineers understand and navigate ethics on a day-to-day basis, prompting questions about how ethics education can be improved. Engineering disasters are ...