Failure Case Studies In The Civil Engineering And Engineering Mechanics Curriculum: A New Textbook

Over the past three years research has evaluated the impact of including failure case studies in specific civil engineering and engineering mechanics courses. Failure case studies developed under two NSF-funded projects have resulted in a book published by the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) Press, Beyond Failure: Forensic Case Studies for Civil Engineers. This paper presents a discussion of the organization and the presentation of the individual cases, as well as some suggestions for use of the work in the curriculum and elsewhere.