Engineering Case Studies Online

Engineering Case Studies Online is a collection of streaming videos and digitized text material focused on engineering failures. The collection covers over 300 videos and 70,000 pages of documentation, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world. The collection provides in-depth coverage for more than 50 of the most frequently taught and seminal case studies around the world. Some of the cases include: 

• Air France flight 4590
• Apollo 13
• The Big Dig
• Boeing 787 Dreamliner
• Chernobyl power plant
• Comet airliners
• Deepwater Horizon oil rig
• Ford Pinto
• Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
• Hyatt Regency walkway
• Space shuttle Challenger
• Tacoma Narrows bridge
• Titanic
• TWA flight 800

The collection was developed with an advisory board of engineering librarians and faculty. Materials come from a wide range of content providers, including the commercial publishers Digital Rights Group, BBC, Future Media, and TVF International; leading academic publishers such as Princeton University Press, John Wiley & Sons, and Harvard University Press; and engineering associations such as the American Society of Civil Engineers.

This collection may be searched alongside other primary source collections in Global & International Studies Collection (Alexander Street).