Researchers discovered that the distance between dislocations in nanolayer interfaces of pearlite can determine how much the material can stretch or contract without breaking (ductility). The ...

Santiago Calatrava’s buildings marry engineering with biology. And they may just be beautiful enough to make Americans care about infrastructure. Two decades ago, Tom Fisher, now dean of the ...

When I was a kid, programming on my Texas Instruments TI-16 and later on a Commodore 64, I was making simple games to play. While I did not realize that such machines would later become indispensable ...

Preliminary planning has begun on the Physical Science and Engineering Building, or PSEB, a new more-than-$350 million facility earmarked for completion in 2027 that will focus on initiatives in ...

To accommodate the continued growth of its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UB is moving ahead with plans to construct a new building for the school on the North Campus. The effort took a ...

Microbes are everywhere, and most are harmless. But tightly sealed buildings–like hospitals or offices–create places where only dangerous bugs survive. Time to rethink our ventilation. Jessica Green, ...

Rainier Square Tower, under construction in Seattle, is one of the buildings considered for the development of a performance-based wind design manual for tall buildings. Photo Courtesy of ...

BYU mechanical engineering students created Lego renderings of BYU campus buildings for their engineering class. The BYU Design Review challenged students to “design Lego-architecture style models of ...

How did the Romans release wild animals into their mighty Colosseum? How did the massive Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul withstand centuries of earthquakes? And how did a desert people carve ...

The Engineering Council of Ghana says the rampant collapse of buildings in some parts of the country should be treated as a national emergency. The Council, which is mandated to regulate the ...