The Problem Of Engineering Project - 1326 Words

In this planet nothing is perfect. Every engineering project deals with many challenges and issues. It is a very risky business. Every engineer’s goal is to create or build something, according to rules and guidelines, to work properly without any failures. But the reality is we are in the world nobody is and nothing is perfect. That is the nature of the life on earth. There are many disasters happens in the planet over the years, some are natural disaster like earthquake, volcano and floods. On the other hand, man-made disasters like nuclear leaks, chemical or oil spill over and structural collapse. Engineering disaster defines as when a system designed or created by engineer’s stop working. Means that the system did not reach the optimum†¦show more content†¦Therefore, engineers and future engineers should be responsible for their actions so they can make this place a safe place to live. 1.1 Background Over the years there many engineering disasters occurred in the planet. An American owned Spanish made, Amoco Cadiz oil tanker, crashed off the rocky coast of Brittany, France on the morning of March 16th, 1978 (Neil Schlager, 2008). When the tanker hits the rocks it poured around 220,000 tons of crude oil in to the beaches and to the surroundings, making the worst oil tanker disaster in the planet at that time (Neil Schlager, 2008). It still stands the fifth largest worst oil spill disaster in the world (Neil Schlager, 2008). At the beginning of the investigation it revealed that faulty design and very poor careless maintenance of the steering system was the main cause of the disaster (Neil Schlager, 2008). In the early February of 1976 the tanker Amoco Cadiz is loaded with 121,160 tons of Light crude oil from Ras Tanara, Saudi Arabia and several days after it was loaded with 98,640 tons of Light crude oil at Kharg Island, Iran (Neil Schlager, 2008). The vessel is al most nearing the six week journey form Persian Gulf to Rotterdam, Netherlands via the southern tip of Africa (Neil Schlager, 2008). The Standard oil of Indiana is the parent company who hired the Amoco Cadiz transport company to transport crude oil between Mediterranean