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

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

[HangnJudge]

...”Was?” What happened? Did she stand outside in the rain and shrink all of a sudden?

Well, it was 40 years ago...

[nickedknack]

>>...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.

[BenLurkin]

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

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[BenLurkin]

"You can say that again."

[Chode]

[yarddog]

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.

[montag813]

Q: "What will hold up the bridge?"

A: "FEELINGS!!!"

You're Hired!

[OrangeHoof]

It was more important how the bridges felt about themselves...

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

You misspelled Matt

[grey_whiskers]

A Bridge Too Fair

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

[Trumpisourlastchance]

You’ve got to be kidding me? Is this real?

[wgmalabama]

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.

[Drew68]

There is some seriously bad logic going on here to imply that gender played any role in this

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The wonders of MWOB.

[sagar]

None?

[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.

[Architect of Avalon]

Affirmative Action does a lot of real-world damage.

[Architect of Avalon]

Math is sexist.

[Kickaha]

Diversity is job one (won)?

[SuperLuminal]

Critical design calculations done a bad time of the month???