PE Magazine Interviewed on C-SPAN Radio
C-SPAN Radio interviewed PE magazine staff writer Ben Roode on August 12, following a meeting of a committee that is conducting a technical analysis of the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The committee was formed by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council at the request of the Department of the Interior.
The committee, which will recommend measures with the goal of preventing similar disasters in the future, is chaired by Donald Winter, former secretary of the navy. Winter is a professor of engineering practice at the University of Michigan, a retired top executive of the Northrop Grumman Corp., and member of the National Academy of Engineering.