List of Contributions

Thanks to one and all for the clear thoughts and opinions. My take? It seems we each and all agree why, and what needs to happen with such information. The challenge is "When, Where, & How." And of course, the reliability of any "How." Cheers, Bill ------------------------------ ...

Thanks very much Ronald for the insights and reference. Cheers, Bill ------------------------------ William M. Hayden Jr., Ph.D., P.E., CMQ/OE, F.ASCE Buffalo, N.Y. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot 1819 - 1880 ------------------------------

Thanks Heidi! What needs to "Find its way into the classroom" is, IMO, the most valuable parts of the above-noted 3 books. In their chapters/cases, after presenting and discussing the tech-reason for the failures as best they can, they have a "Lessons-Learned"" section at the end ...

As always Mitch, excellent advice. And if the engineering educators get beyond the structural details of the failures(s), they will ask Deming's "Why" 5 times. It will then take them to the actual root-cause. Cheers, Bill ------------------------------ William M. Hayden ...

Right-on Mitch! Some starting resources: "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design," by Henry Petroski. 1992 "Epic Engineering failures and The Lessons They Teach," by Stephen Ressler. 2022 "The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes ...