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Diversity Fail? All-Women Engineering Team Blamed for Collapse of Miami Pedestrian Bridge
SandraRose.com ^ | March 18, 2018 | Sandra Rose

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 ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bridgecollapse; designflaw; diversity; fiu; fiubridge; miami; quotas; women
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To: reaganaut1

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


81 posted on 03/18/2018 7:16:10 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Feminism poisons engineering.


82 posted on 03/18/2018 7:16:11 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: HerrBlucher

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


83 posted on 03/18/2018 7:17:28 PM PDT by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam)
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To: yarddog

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


84 posted on 03/18/2018 7:17:40 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: reaganaut1

Diversity Kills.


85 posted on 03/18/2018 7:19:10 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Reading her resume made my head hurt.

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


86 posted on 03/18/2018 7:19:49 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: JPJones

Didn’t see yours before my #86. Yep.


87 posted on 03/18/2018 7:20:24 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: reaganaut1

That'll show those manspreaders.

88 posted on 03/18/2018 7:22:40 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Beave Meister

LOL~~


89 posted on 03/18/2018 7:25:16 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: reaganaut1

REBAR is a legacy of the male, cisgender patriarchy.


90 posted on 03/18/2018 7:25:38 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: reaganaut1

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.


91 posted on 03/18/2018 7:25:55 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
heh heh heh heh, is see what you did there...
92 posted on 03/18/2018 7:27:45 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Hahaha! Your explanation legit made me laugh.

Much needed cuz idiocy is making me very angry. /o\
93 posted on 03/18/2018 7:28:30 PM PDT by BurrOh (All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ~Orwell)
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To: FirstFlaBn

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.


94 posted on 03/18/2018 7:28:37 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: salmon76

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.


95 posted on 03/18/2018 7:29:18 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: reaganaut1
Here is a video of the bridge falling:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kK3r4Wq9G03P/
96 posted on 03/18/2018 7:31:47 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: reaganaut1

Pinging


97 posted on 03/18/2018 7:32:00 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: reaganaut1

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


98 posted on 03/18/2018 7:32:29 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: reaganaut1
The company is a federal military contractor for the U.S. Army and Navy.

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

99 posted on 03/18/2018 7:34:03 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: Moonman62
"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.


100 posted on 03/18/2018 7:34:05 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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