The Challenger disaster is a tragic example of contradicting proper management and engineering decisions. The management on the The Space Center were informed about Morton Thiokol engineers recommendation againts launching Challenger space shuttle. Unfortunately, The Space Center chose to ignore that option. Vice president of Morton Thiokol, only considering about business profit, even persuaded the supervising engineer at that time to “take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat.”
I believe that engineers and scientists have some degree of responsibility to ensure that their user make decisions regarding their product with understanding, especially understanding of their consequences. In this Challenger case, this applies
I believe that engineers and scientists have some degree of responsibility to ensure that their user make decisions regarding their product with understanding, especially understanding of their consequences. In this Challenger case, this applies