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There are. It's an entire engineering discipline and a required one on aviation/military projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering https://en.
by deelowe 6y ago
There are. It's an entire engineering discipline and a required one on aviation/military projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering
There absolutely would have been systems engineers in charge of the various budgets and margins baked into the design. Safety is always a top one in aviation. In fact, Id be surprised to find there wasn't a team of systems safety engineering on the max. We need to see their analysis to understand whether this was a fault of engineering or management. If the engineers had done a thorough systems safety analysis and quantified the risk, then the responsibility definitely does not fall on engineering.
- HelloNurse 6y agoCompetent systems engineers are in charge of high level decisions in theory. In practice, they might be less in charge than they should be (so that, more or less criminally, managers prioritize business objectives over safety and quality) or less able to do their job and less competent than they should be (probably because better processes and higher standards would mean spending money to cause "problems").
- deelowe 6y agoIt's never any engineer's job to make decisions/define constraints. That's on the business side whether it be management, marketing, analytics teams, etc... I seriously doubt any engineer decided this. The decision to go with a single non-redundant system and use software to improve safety margins seems like a cost cutting measure which definitely seems more like something that would have been mandated as one of the design goals. Maybe engineering presented various options or something like that, but I find it very hard to believe the risk decision laid anywhere else other than very senior management.