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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by mabbo on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @08:36AM (#17757300)
Engineers in Canada wear "iron" rings that are meant to be representative of this responsibility[0]. While not actually true, most of the time people talk about it they claim the rings were originally made from a failed beam of the first Quebec Bridge[1], improperly engineered.

My wife has three pieces of jewelry- engagement ring, wedding ring, iron ring. She doesn't tell me which one she loves best.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge

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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by Insanity on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:26AM (#17757650)
That's actually a really cool tradition imo. Never heard about it until now.

Thanks for that!

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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by PakG1 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:46AM (#17757806)
I had thought it was a North American thing, if not a worldwide thing. Canadian speaking. Goes to show that it's easy to assume the world is the same everywhere.
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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by 3rdAccount on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @08:18PM (#17762992)
American Universities with engineering departments have an Order of the Engineer ceremony and I recall some people got rings I think. It's been a few years though.
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Re:Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22 by tempVariable on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:14PM (#17759797)
As a cannuck, I can chuckle at the fact that one of our Ontario bridges lasted 42 days before it failed.[1]

[1]https://globalnews.ca/news/2957484/design-improperly-tighten...

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