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> While most blame NASA for shady engineering I blame Morton Thiokol engineer Roger Boisjoly. He recommended the launch be scrubbed when he filed a safety repor
by profmonocle 11y ago
> While most blame NASA for shady engineering I blame Morton Thiokol engineer Roger Boisjoly. He recommended the launch be scrubbed when he filed a safety report with his management.
> I regard Boisjoly as ultimately responsible because he knew the o-rings were out of thermal tolerance yet he failed in his effort to get the launch scrubbed.
You're saying we should blame lower-level employees when their managers deliberately ignore their advice? No, just no. Management's job is to take the advice given and choose how to act. If we follow your philosophy then not only are we putting blame on the wrong people, but you're basically telling people they need to constantly try to undermine their supervisors, because it'll be their ass on the line if they fail to push a certain course of action.
- Sven7 11y agoRight. Snowdon was unlucky. He should have come to you for advice and filed some paperwork with management I guess.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoYes. The reason that American Civil Engineers require a Professional Engineer license is that an incompetently designed gas pipe exploded and killed three hundred people. There are other kinds of PEs as well - aerospace, mechanical, chemical engineers and so on. In Canada, one must have the Canadian equivalent of a PE to practice as an engineer of any sort. That includes MCSEs; the Ontario Society of Engineers just loves to sue MCSEs and their exam "preparation" schools - and the OSE always wins its cases. Here is my take: Every Engineer's Solemn Duty http://www.warplife.com/ethics/duty.html http://www.warplife.com/ethics/duty.html