Drones Versus Jet Engines

What happens if someone mistakenly—or intentionally—flies a drone into an airliner’s jet engine intake? Engineers who have studied similar interactions with birds weigh in on the danger.

Clean Power for Industrial Boilers

At the heart of most large commercial buildings and factories is an industrial boiler to provide steam. And virtually all these boilers are fueled by oil or natural gas, making them a difficult-to-abate source of greenhouse gas emissions. A prominent early career engineer examines the prospects for updating industrial boilers.

Protecting Manhattan from Storm Surges

New York City has seen a marked increase in the number of flooding events from storms, but the type of catastrophe that really worries planners is a repeat of the large tidal surge that accompanied Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Meet the engineers tasked with building defenses along one of the most crowded and valuable shorelines in the world.