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Rose, Mary Annette; Hunt, Brian – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2012
Natural catastrophes and engineering failures provide timely, motivating, and conceptually rich backdrops for learning. Engineering educators have long embraced case studies of engineering failures as a sound pedagogical strategy for meeting several learning standards, such as "design within realistic constraints", and teaching failure…
Descriptors: Engineering, Failure, Case Studies, Natural Disasters