Recovery Efforts Continue After Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
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Civil Engineering Engineering Ethics General Engineering, Engineering Science |
| Learning Resource Type: | Teaching - Lecture/Presentation |
| Author(s): | The Online News Hour - PBS |
| Description: | "The search for bodies continued in Minneapolis Thursday following the collapse of a highway bridge into the Mississippi River. As many as 30 people are missing. Two infrastructure experts assess the reasons for the collapse." Transcript with links to read Audio and streaming video of the August 2, 2007 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Ray Suarez on PBS. Experts interviewed were Dan McNicol, author of "The Roads that Build America" and Anthony (Tony) Ingraffea, Professor of Civil Engineering at Cornell University. Quote: "Things age. Everything we build doesn't last forever. The older these things get, the less reliable are our predictions of their future safety. So inspections have to be happening more frequently." |
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| Keywords: | bridge collapse, bridge failure, bridge safety, bridge monitoring, civil infrastructure |
| References |
Collapse of Overpass in California Becomes Lesson in Construction |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(e) Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) Understand professional and ethical responsibility (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
| Use of Resource: | Useful for a case study in ethics or civil/ structural engineering. Also useful to show engineers communicating to the public. Part of a series on engineering experts on the NewsHour. |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Medium |
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| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/july... |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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