NDLI: Engineering management, engineering reasoning, and engineering education: lessons from the Space Shuttle Challenger

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lighthall, F.F.
Copyright Year	1990
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Educ. & Psychol., Chicago Univ., IL, USA (Lighthall, F.F.)
Abstract	The author analyzes published and archival testimony of participants in the decision to launch the Challenger, and extracts novel lessons for engineering training and engineering managers from the decision process. The professional weakness pointed to is either curricular or instructional: a gap in the education of engineers. Staff engineers and engineering managers arguing for and against the launch were unable to frame basic questions of covariation among field variables, and thus to see the relevance of field data routinely gathered. Simple analyses of field data available to both Morton-Thiokol and NASA to launch time and a year beforehand are presented to show that the arguments against launching at cold temperatures could have been quantified to the point of predicting degrees of component failure beyond those held by decision participants to be safe.<>
Starting Page	369
Ending Page	377
File Size	863608
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1109/IEMC.1990.201307
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1990-10-21
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Research and development management Engineering education Testing Engineering management Data engineering Data analysis Space shuttles Management training Failure analysis NASA
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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