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Dear Mitch, this is realy a very good NYT article with most valuable graphics! It also warns us to hastily accuse people of negligence or ignorance, but learn to understand that such events are outstanding and that human actions, reactions (or failures to act) need be understood from their individual ...

Hi Mitch, I'm not familiar with the extent to which the FED collects experience from outside the U.S. But certainly the international community of earthquake engineering is analyzing the disasters and publishes regularly the learnings. Cf. https://wcee.nicee.org/wcee/index.php?__cf_chl_f_tk=g9efFo ...

Languages, along with computer literacy, is one of the key element of the so-called "transferable skills", which are common to all engineering disciplines. Others are: understanding the profession, ethics (incl. willingness to serve society and the environment), ability to collaborate in a multidisciplinary ...

I'm living in Switzerland with four official languages: German, French, Italian and Rumantsch (cf. https://www.aboutswitzerland.eda.admin.ch/en/allegra-a-look-at-romansh-switzerlands-fourth-language). Because of a high immigration rate English has become accepted a the 5th language in academia and international ...

Six Sigma is about improving process capabilities and control variations, which is the highest level (#5) of capability-maturity models (CMM). In the AEC sector I can imagine application in stationary processes like precasting yards or logistics for construction sites of long duration. Such process redesign ...