Answer the following about disasters that engineering students in North America may learn about on their first day of class, for 10 points each:
[10e] Although the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse was caused by aeroelastic flutter, engineering courses use it to introduce this behavior in which a system oscillates at high amplitude due to excitation near its natural frequency.
ANSWER: resonance [or resonating]
[10h] Canadian students often discuss how faulty conversion from imperial to metric units for fuel mass resulted in a 1983 Air Canada flight gliding to an emergency landing in this Manitoba town. This town is home to the largest ethnic Icelandic population outside of Iceland.
ANSWER: Gimli [accept Gimli Glider]
[10m] Engineering ethics courses use the 1981 collapse of a lofted walkway in a Kansas City building owned by this company to discuss negligence and internal review. The Pritzker Prize was created by a co-founder of this company.
ANSWER: Hyatt [or Hyatt Hotels Corporation or Hyatt Hotels & Resorts; accept Hyatt Regency Hotel; reject “Hyatt Regency O’Hare”]
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