Levee Exhibit Hall And Garden: A Manifesto: Engineering Students Must Learn About Engineering Disasters

Press release from Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden:

2022-01-28

It’s come to the attention of Levees.org that civil engineering students are not being taught about the worst civil engineering disaster in US history.

Students are graduating without the crucial knowledge that engineering mistakes led to the collapse of the Army Corps of Engineers’ levees in New Orleans in August of 2005.

“There is no acknowledgment from academic institutions that they are responsible for instruction of “professional practice” issues, such as the applicable “standard of care” engineers can expect to be held to once they graduate and begin their practice,” says nationally renowned engineering expert J. David Rogers.

Levees.org has therefore launched a campaign urging the newly installed president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to lead the push for engineering students to learn about catastrophic engineering mistakes, including the levee breach disaster of 2005.

Sign the petition to ASCE President Dennis Truax.

Learn about the Pittsburgh bridge collapse today.

This press release was produced by Levee Exhibit Hall and Garden. The views expressed here are the author’s own.