"You can say that again."
Posted on 03/18/2018 6:12:54 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The all-women engineering team that designed the ill-fated pedestrian foot bridge at Miami’s Florida International University were highly touted for their advances in a field that is typically dominated by men.
But critics are pointing the finger of blame at the female engineers for design flaws that may have brought the bridge down.
Investigators are still on the scene of last week’s bridge collapse that killed 6 people and injured 9 on the FIU campus in Southwest Miami.
The investigation is focusing on the work done by a team of all-women engineers who were employed by one of the construction firms that designed and built the bridge.
Munilla Construction Management (MCM), the South Miami-based firm that designed the FIU foot bridge, has been sued multiple times for unsafe practices in the past.
In early March MCM was sued by a construction worker who was severely injured when MCM’s “makeshift bridge” at Miami’s International Airport collapsed.
MCM is a Cuban-American, family-owned Miami company founded in 1983 that employs more than 1,000 people in several states. The company is a federal military contractor for the U.S. Army and Navy.
MCM was awarded the $14.2 million minority contract to design and build the cable-stayed bridge. The company is well-connected in Miami politics and it promotes inclusion and diversity in the workforce.
(Excerpt) Read more at sandrarose.com ...
...”Was?” What happened? Did she stand outside in the rain and shrink all of a sudden?
Well, it was 40 years ago...
>>...critics say simple mathematics would have prevented the disaster in Miami.<<
“Math is hard if your’re a female, and even harder if you’re a minority female. So let’s not worry about that math thingy and just design a pretty bridge!” — All female, Cubana design team.
It’s a high price to pay for being stylish.
Employees at MCM | Munilla Construction Management
Melanie Rowan, P.E.
Senior Project Manager
Nelson Gomez Jr
Project Engineer
Maira Suarez
Alex Suarez
Senior Project Manager
Nelson Nunez
Fleet Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mcm_3
I once dated a cute girl who was a math major. She was pretty smart. She was also later president of her sorority at Mississippi State.
Still it is a fact that boys on average, score higher on math tests and girls score higher on verbal.
A: "FEELINGS!!!"
You're Hired!
It was more important how the bridges felt about themselves...
You misspelled Matt
OMG!!
They had this problem back in Merrie Olde England too!
London Bridge is Falling Down,
Falling Down,
Falling Down,
London Bridge is Falling Down,
My Fair Lady
You’ve got to be kidding me? Is this real?
Well the bridge was being intolerant of gravity for a while then caved to the worlds pressure to turn that potential energy into steady state. Can’t have some object refusing to bow to the pressure of Mother Earth.
Yeah, this kind of stuff is embarrassing.
I'd bet that most modern civil engineering failures are a result of cutting corners to save (or embezzle) money, not poor engineering.
The wonders of MWOB.
None?
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.
Affirmative Action does a lot of real-world damage.
Math is sexist.
Diversity is job one (won)?
Critical design calculations done a bad time of the month???
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