The Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse - A Learning Opportunity

This session will look at the background, initial response, impacts and forensic engineering issues resulting from the ship collision that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The session will use this incident, and similar ones, as examples of how young engineers can develop a personal framework to understand similar events and explain them to the public at large in order to influence infrastructure policies. Central to that framework are issues of complexity and system interdependencies that are not often taught or discussed as part of engineering education.