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.
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Men and boys all over the world are “twice as good at math” as women and girls?
This article is as bogus as the construction engineering on the bridge.
LOL LOL LOL
Diversity means a little of this, a little of that.
Not an all female or all black or all Jewish etc.
My wife was told in the early seventies that the University of Minnesota didn’t accept women into their engineering program. She got her degrees in math and physics. All three of her brothers have engineering degrees, two of them from the University of Minnesota.
DIVERSITY OVER HARMONICS
Equals Undamped Oscillation
We don’t care about no schtinking harmonics,
we have DIVERSITY!
Just put a sign at the entrance, everyone walk in unison.
It is the high tensile strength of rebar and extreme web reinforcement rods that allows one to use concrete simply to keep the steel elements in place. On the upper load-bearing paved surface, the compressive strength of concrete comes into play as having structural value.
But even in pillars, steel rods and spiral reinforcement is used to keep the concrete from crumbling under the tensile forces deriving from Poisson's ratio as applied to compressive stress gradients.
If that means anything to the layman.
Their code of ethics usually does not make them very good politicians. You can't lie to the outcomes of natural forces, or sweet-talk corrosion (or dedicated truth-tellers) into submission.
Engineer Lady: "Shut up and eat your lunch - did you wash your hands?"
Low bid meets spec.
Wise Latinas building bad bridges but still making muy bueno tacos.
Agreed.
I say this as a female engineer.
Were they deliberately trying to use just women engineers? They must’ve picked the lowest of the class and probably youngest, too. No experience, low grades?
Further, I heard this co. is run by a Cuban-American (ah, diversity - to get minority contracts) LAWYER who had troubles in that field. Not that large-enough companies can’t be run by “outsiders”, but engineering firm headed by a lawyer? Might look askance at that.
I wonder what the percentage of women chess masters is?
I know there are some but would bet the percentage is small.
It was more important how the bridges felt about themselves...”
It was agreed that any supports made the bridge look too fat.
I once worked for an engineering firm that had a small structural design group. My focus was on municipal Civil Engineering and I would watch the Senior level Structural Engineer just grind those young guys to death. All they did all day was run calculations over and over. I’m talking old school task master type apprenticeship. They had 1 guy there that had his Bachelors and Masters from Purdue. After 3 years of spread sheet calculations, he quit to be a winemaker.
My point is you don’t just pick a team, regardless of their gender, and tell them to design a bridge. These team members should be picked based on their experience, knowledge, and capabilities, and not what sex they are.
My PE license does not allow me to design bridges. In the state of Washington we have varying levels of structural design professionals. As a PE I can design up a 4,000sf building anything bigger than that requires an SE 1. SE2, or an SE3 which is the top of the food chain
Probably true because traditionally men have been the engineers but this idea of giving priority to minorities is causing all kinds of trouble. Stop trying to engineering society—choose the best regardless of race, creed, gender, etc.
“Never put down to malice what you can ascribe to incompetence” - I think it was just sheer incompetence. Whether male or female or minority or not, it was incompetence. But run by a LAWYER — ok, now that is evil. Everyone knows engineers go to heaven and lawyers to the other place.
If you push affirmative action hires, who are filled with social justice garbage and not taught critical thinking skills, what do you think is going to happen? They were probably neither emotionally or intellectually prepared for such a task.
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