{"id":82464,"date":"2018-05-02T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464//?p=82464"},"modified":"2018-06-07T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:49:27","slug":"engineering-profession-must-re-establish-relationship-trust-following-catastrophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464//engineering-profession-must-re-establish-relationship-trust-following-catastrophies/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464//","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Profession Must Re-establish Relationship of Trust Following Catastrophes"},"content":{"rendered":"
This past month has been very disheartening for me as an engineer. A confluence of national events of catastrophic failures and stories of inadequate design decisions have shined a negative light on the profession of engineering./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464/n
This should never happen! This is another way of saying that we must design and build things in such a way that they don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464/u2019t fail. And under no circumstance should they ever cause a loss of life. The /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464/u201cfactors of safety/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464/u201d that are put in place to ensure that do we not fail /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464/u2013 either over time or suddenly /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464/u2013 must be re-examined. We must not even come close to the cliff or work in the margins./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/82464/n