Case 16, Hurricane Katrina

Read Chapter 7, Risk and Liability in Engineering. Then read Case 16, Hurricane Katrina. Page 250 – 252

Answer the following question:

Discuss how with corporate backing, engineers who subscribe to Fred Cuny’s ideas about effective disaster relief in his Disasters and Development (Oxford University
Press, 1983) might approach the engineering challenges of Katrina.

Submit your responses in a short essay format