Forensic engineering has come a long way since Wiss Janney Elstner Associates was featured on the cover of ENR in 1972. For its 150th anniversary, ENR looks back at how problem-solving and investigations by that forensics firm and others have better informed the engineering knowledge base.
A 1972 ENR cover story said of Wiss Janney Elstner Associates in Northbrook, Ill., “It exists largely by looking for trouble, both before and after the fact of structural distress and failure.”
The telescope, part of the next generation of telescopes now under construction or development, will be one of the largest optical telescopes ever built when completed.
Attendees at Groundbreaking Women in Construction shared how emerging global priorities, developing skill sets, stronger self-advocacy and next-generation technology development are changing the trajectory of women's careers.
Engineering News in its early years was more of a civil engineering journal than its later incarnations (including Engineering News-Record), with numerous articles contributed by engineers.