Lessons from the Challenger Disaster
Responsibilities in Engineering
Engineers in Organizations
Lessons from the Columbia Disaster
Line Drawing
100
This engineer raised initial objections to Challenger launch
Who is Roger Boisjoly?
100
An engineer offers to take less money developing a water purification system for emerging countries than he would make working for Exxon.
What is Good Works?
100
When groups come to agreement at the expense of critical thinking.
What is groupthink?
100
Time when left wing was damaged
What is 2 weeks prior?
100
Question of whether or not an offer is a bribe.
What is an Application/Conceptual Issue?
200
This was the ambient temperature on the day of the launch.
What is 36 degrees Fahrenheit.
200
The O-Ring was the _________ cause of the Challenger incident while the organizational culture was the __________ cause of the Challenger incident.
What is physical, organizational?
200
This type of organizational culture weights the opinion of the engineers the least.
What is Finance-Oriented Companies?
200
Moment of the Columbia explosion (part of the flight)
What is reentry?
200
Question of whether or not to accept a bribe.
What is a Moral Issue?
300
These did not seal correctly due to pressure during firing of the Solid Rocket Boosters
What are o-rings?
300
Used to govern procedures, terminology, and physical properties, for example: how close reinforcing steel should be laid out in a concrete column.
What is Design Standards?
300
By DeGeorge's theory, whistleblowing is _________ if the situation includes evidence that an impartial observer would agree with.
What is obligatory?
300
These entered a breach in the wing leading edge and destroyed the structural integrity of the wing.
What are hot gases/plasma?
300
A line drawing chart for analysis of the situation or case that is problematic.
What is Test Case?
400
This was issued after the Challenger failure and stipulated that the Space Shuttle program be moved to Washington, DC and established the Office of Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance at NASA HQ.
What is the Rogers Commission Report?
400
This is what the engineers failed to exercise at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel that lead to the collapse of the walkway.
What is Responsible Oversight?
400
Name 2 of the symptoms of groupthink.
What is 1) illusion of invulnerability, 2) strong "we" feeling, 3) rationalizations to shift responsibility to others, 4) illusion of morality, 5) self-censorship, avoid "rocking the boat," 6) illusion of unanimity - taking silence as agreement, 7) direct pressure towards disagreement, 8) mindguarding
400
This caused the damage to the left wing of the Columbia shuttle.
What is briefcase-sized piece of insulating foam?
400
A hallmark example of a certain concept or moral issue.
What is Paradigm?
500
The length of the flight and the date of the flight.
What is 73 seconds and Jan 28, 1986?
500
The line between non-negligent and negligent error.
What is Standard of Care?
500
If an engineer belongs to a controversial political group in the community, and his company disapproves, he is practicing ____________.
What is Disobedience by Contrary Action?
500
This was an attitude at NASA identified as a factor in the loss of the Columbia.
What is 1) NASA felt that it is alone in its ability to execute a program of human space flight and 2) Didn't readily accept constructive criticism such as the Rogers Commission report
500
This person created the term "casuistry" which is the original name for the line drawing method.
Who is Cicero?
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