Welcome to your class resource page for Epic Fails in Engineering. Here you will find links to videos, web pages, and books to help with your research. You can also link directly to your assignment Google Doc here. There is information about citations in the Doc AND at the bottom of this guide. Please see Ms. Oakley or Ms. Guerin if you need help finding more research or citing your sources. Have fun!
Pick the perfect fail! Take a look at Wikipedia's list of structural failures to begin your research. Once you have found a failure, check with Ms. Oakley to get the OK to proceed. 
The following fails are AUTOMATICALLY approved! Check them out below...
CITATION INSTRUCTIONSIt is essential to give credit to the researchers who did the work before you. Always save or bookmark your sources so that you can make proper citations for each of them.
Follow these models in red to put together your citations! Pay attention to all parts of the instructions, including where to use capital letters, italics, commas, and periods. Citations have very specific rules, and it’s good to practice using them now. And remember: a URL link is NOT the same as a citation!
Book with an author: Last name, First name of author. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
EXAMPLES: Connolly, Sean. The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Wyatt, Val, et al. Fantastic Feats and Failures. Kids Can Press, 2004.
Paris, Stephanie. Engineering: Feats & Failures. Teacher Created Materials, 2012.
Yes Magazine, editor. Fantastic Feats and Failures. San Val, 2004.
Book with an editor: Title of Book, edited by (name of editor), publisher, publication date.
EXAMPLE: Engineering: An Illustrated History From Ancient Craft to Modern Technology, edited by Tom Jackson, Shelter Harbor Press, 2016.
Website/web page article: Last name, First name of author. “Title of article.” Title of website. Sponsor of the site, date posted, URL address (don’t include the http:// part). Date of access.
EXAMPLE: “I-35W Mississippi River Bridge.” Wikipedia. 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge. Accessed 28 Dec. 2022.
YouTube video: “Title of Video.” YouTube, uploaded by Name of YouTube Account, Day Month Year, URL. Date of Access.
EXAMPLE: “Prevent Plagiarism in 5 Steps.” YouTube, uploaded by Chegg, 15 Nov. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lxBP1LtFDY.
Digital Image: Cite the website where the image appeared, OR
Creator’s Last Name, First Name (if available). “Title of the Picture.” Date taken/created, Title of the Site, URL. Accessed Date.
EXAMPLE: Strand, Todd. "Demolition of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. 3 Mar. 2014, Alamy.com, www.alamy.com/.
***NOTE: If any of the pieces of information listed in red are MISSING (for example, your website article does not list an author), just skip it and move on to the next piece. Your job is to find as much of the citation info as possible and include it. Do NOT make it up if you can’t find it!
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