It's time for schools to take engineering seriously

Professor Elizabeth Croft and Professor John Loughran

By Professor Elizabeth Croft and Professor John Loughran
Community contribution / September 5, 2018

As the Morandi Bridge collapse in Genoa demonstrated, ageing infrastructure is an alarming problem facing the developed world.

We need engineers to maintain this infrastructure, largely built in the post-war period and coming to the end of their ...

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