That'll show those manspreaders.
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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Well, at least it wasn’t a parking lot.
Feminism poisons engineering.
We’re not looking at historical percentages but this instance and this firm’s record.
Yeah, but just watch how many waitresses can instantly calculate 15%. I’ve met a few that were like Rain Man.
Diversity Kills.
Reading her resume made my head hurt.
I wonder if the women engineers were responsible for the short-cuts in the bridge construction?
Didn’t see yours before my #86. Yep.
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REBAR is a legacy of the male, cisgender patriarchy.
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.
heh heh heh heh, is see what you did there...
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.
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.
Pinging
This will NEVER make it to the media. But I think we need more proof then this one source.
WOW - instills so much confidence for our military...
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