1978. General Motors believes it has found the golden ticket to solve the world's fuel crisis: a cheap-to-develop, naturally-aspirated V8 diesel engine. The result? One of the greatest automotive ...

If there's one area of cycling I love in a disproportionate and nerdy way, it's the rich history of innovation that stretches across the sport. The first slant parallelogram derailleur, the first aero ...

The divide between engineering and executive leadership is rarely about technical literacy. It’s alignment. When engineering leaders frame wins in terms of cost, risk, revenue, strategic objectives ...

Industrial organizations can prevent repeated maintenance problems by treating knowledge management as preventive maintenance ...

Bad leaders, a complacent crew and maintenance cost-cutting by the Navy contributed to a series of engineering failures on the USS Boxer that prevented the ship from going to sea for more than one ...

Engineering failures rarely begin with a single bad calculation. They begin when critical information doesn’t surface—an anomaly ignored, a question unasked, a hesitation swallowed because someone ...

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster serves as a powerful lesson in engineering and aerodynamics. The collapse on November 7, 1940, stands as one of the most dramatic and instructive engineering ...