Diversity Fail? All-Women Engineering Team Blamed for Collapse of Miami Pedestrian Bridge

SandraRose.com ^ | March 18, 2018 | Sandra Rose

[familyop]

Well, at least it wasn’t a parking lot.

[Architect of Avalon]

Feminism poisons engineering.

[Kickaha]

We’re not looking at historical percentages but this instance and this firm’s record.

[OrangeHoof]

Yeah, but just watch how many waitresses can instantly calculate 15%. I’ve met a few that were like Rain Man.

[Rebelbase]

Diversity Kills.

[PhiloBedo]

Reading her resume made my head hurt.

I wonder if the women engineers were responsible for the short-cuts in the bridge construction?

[Rebelbase]

Didn’t see yours before my #86. Yep.

[Bon mots]

That'll show those manspreaders.

[SoFloFreeper]

LOL~~

[PGR88]

REBAR is a legacy of the male, cisgender patriarchy.

[familyop]

A woman who *really wants* to be an engineer could be great. But academic and corporate feminists rounded up funding and support beginning in the ‘90s, IIRC, to cram left wing feminists through engineering programs.

So give each female candidate the benefit of the doubt and screen her to make sure that she is an anti-feminist social conservative, especially if she paid her own way through school. If she is socially conservative (not necessarily religious but loves her dad, pro-Second-Amendment, etc.) and really just wanted to be an engineer, she might be a great engineer.

[Chode]

heh heh heh heh, is see what you did there...

[BurrOh]

Hahaha! Your explanation legit made me laugh.

Much needed cuz idiocy is making me very angry. /o\

[Fred Hayek]

To make pronouncements about loads, any responsible and qualified person would have to look at the drawings. Everybody here who has both examined and understands the structural drawings, raise your hand. I thought so.

I am a PE, but not in structural since my area is electrical and controls systems. Thus I am not legally qualified to evaluate or stamp structural drawings, per the PE Code of Ethics. Still, I had to take Strength of Materials in order to get my BSEE and to pass the Fundamentals of Engineering exam.

So far, from what I have read, improper construction sequence appears to be the possible cause. And at least the State of Florida considers Civil:Construction to be an engineering discipline, per the NCEES website.

[thoughtomator]

The problem appears to be that no matter how much the people hired to do that work fail at it, they never seem to get fired and replaced.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Here is a video of the bridge falling:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kK3r4Wq9G03P/

[Menehune56]

Pinging

[napscoordinator]

This will NEVER make it to the media. But I think we need more proof then this one source.

[TheBattman]

The company is a federal military contractor for the U.S. Army and Navy.

WOW - instills so much confidence for our military...

[familyop]

"The dashcam video shows the bridge broke right where the workers were tensioning the cable, so it may have nothing to do with the design."

Highly likely then! Post-tensioned concrete is all the rage, but it's a risky way to design a bridge. They should have used the older, proven design with the big dowels and non-tensioned rebar for a bridge.