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For questions 1-2, find a published news article from the last 5 years that describes an engineering failure that led to serious safety or environmental consequences. An engineering failure is any

time a technology ceases to perform its intended function (not counting times a operator does not use the technology as intended). You may use news.google.com Links to an external site. or similar search engine to find an article meeting the relevant criteria. It helps to use boolean search operatorsLinks to an external site. Download boolean search operators Links to an external site.to refine results. Since journalists do not always describe failures the way an engineer would, think of specific kinds of failures, and look for those. Include a link to your article and a complete bibliographic citation for that article. Question 1 (2 points): Briefly describe the technology, its function, and the way in which that technology failed.

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