Engineering Ethics Case Study: The Challenger Disaster

PDHonline Course R143 (3 PDH) Engineering Ethics Case Study: TheChallenger Disaster2012 Instructor: Mark P. Rossow, , PE RetiredPDH Online | PDH Center5272 Meadow Estates DriveFairfax, VA 22030-6658 Phone & Fax: Approved Continuing Education ProviderThe Challenger Disaster and Engineering Ethics Mark P. Rossow PE, PhD Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 2 2012 Mark P. Rossow Also published as The Challenger Disaster and Engineering Ethics Kindle Edition All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the author. The cover image is part of the collection: NASA Images. From the description given on the website: Close-up view of the liftoff of the Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51L taken from camera site 39B-2/T3. From this camera position, a cloud of grey-brown smoke can be seen on the right side of the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) on a line directly across from the letter "U" in United States.

the evening before the launch—is described. Direct quotations from engineers interviewed after the disaster are used to illustrate the ambiguities of the data and the pressures that the decision-makers faced in the period preceding the launch. The book ends by presenting six ethical issues raised by Challenger.

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