b'Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They TeachBroadcast May 24June 12When a bridge, walkway or roof fails, the fallout can bephenom. In revealing the catalysts, whether engineered deadly. Yet, in the same way a military defeat provokesor the result of dysfunction and egos, he poses the strategic changes, these disasters also teach us valuablequestion: Can we, as a civilization, move forward lessons . if we can determine what went wrong. Enterwithout these failures? His answer may surprise you. professor Stephen Ressler (West Point) as he takes usStephen Ressler is a Professor Emeritus from West Point. behind the scenes of epic failures . from the disastrousHe has also served in a variety of military engineering Hyatt walkway collapse to the wobbly London bridgeassignments in the U.S., Europe and Central Asia.49'