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Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach

Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach

Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach

In the fascinating 26 lectures of Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach, you will go behind the scenes of painstaking and captivating investigations to discover what really happened in more than 24 epic engineering failures. Your professor, civil engineer and award-winning educator Stephen Ressler PhD, reveals the story behind each disaster by not only demonstrating the scientific and engineering issues involved, but also by examining the individual personalities and sometimes dysfunctional organizations that led to catastrophe.

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