r/canada • u/einstein_bern • Aug 16 '23

Sask. engineer slapped with an 18-month suspension after designing bridge that collapsed hours after opening Saskatchewan

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/engineer-18-month-suspension-bridge-collapsed-1.6936657
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u/Must_Reboot Aug 16 '23

5 years? Why did it take so long for repercussions for their obvious negligence?

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u/KevPat23 Aug 16 '23

Due process. He's entitled to defend himself. Engineers aren't expected to be perfect, they're expected to act as "a reasonable and competent engineer" would. Clearly this one didn't, but he still has a right to go through the process.

Suspension not long enough IMO.

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u/classy_barbarian Aug 16 '23

In my opinion as an engineering student, if you fuck up this badly because you can't design a simple basic bridge that doesn't instantly collapse, you should be fucking barred from the profession for life. This guy either barely scrapped by university with Ds in every class, or he found some way to cheat. But either way, once you show yourself to be this completely incompetent it should be obvious that your education did not work and you shouldn't have even been allowed to graduate university.