Brandon Runnels, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, often kicks off his undergraduate mechanics course by showing images from engineering disasters.

An expert Teesside engineer will feature in a new documentary telly series examining some of the world's biggest industrial disasters and the investigations into them. Fiona Macleod, from Stockton, ...

A "COMPLEX and interlinked" series of events involving mechanical failures and human judgments led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, a report by oil giant BP said today. The internal inquiry, led by ...