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I think this is a case where one needs to look at outcomes. In my mind, graduates need to know that engineers are not infallible and mistakes get made through acts of omission and commission. They must know they are part of a system and the failure of the system is its weakest link. They also need to ...

A starter for this conversation would be hearing from educators on how they are incorporating lessons learned from disasters and failures into their classrooms. I don't think there is any better teaching tool for focusing students on the safety-critical nature of their work than past disasters and failures. ...

You make some great points. Picking up on your last point about failure, I think this an area that many too narrowly define. Failure is much more than structural failure. It's also more than meeting stated objectives. Failure includes not having an agreed set of objectives. For me, it comes back to proper ...

You make a great observation and pose some great questions. I also applaud your approach, i.e. asking how, what, when, where and why. This is also tantamount in my view to understanding and elucidating value - or what's important. You and others might be interested in the article that recently ran in ...