Challenger Disaster Summary

Through the example of the Challenger Disaster Case Study and others, we have learned the importance of ethics and the impediments that many professional engineers and engineering managers face during their careers. Roger Boisjoly is a leading example of an engineer who faced many impediments to ethical behaviors, and stands as a good example for what to be wary of in engineering.
Boisjoly experienced ethical impediments during his role in the Challenger disaster from the concerns with whistleblowing the company he worked for when put into as extreme a situation as the Challenger disaster was. During an interview, he stated that knowing what he knows after the incident, he would still blow the whistle, even though it would be the end of his career. All of the things that he went through after becoming a whistleblower about the O-Ring problem are a
One of the biggest things that I personally learned was that the use of visuals during the engineering process, and the simplicity of those visuals, can make drastic impacts on the way that information is relayed to the audience. It has the ability to affect their capacity to make better educational decisions. Though the dissenters at Morton-Thiokol had the biggest case to stop the Challenger, they used the wrong method of getting that point across.
Though we can’t know exactly what would have happened if they would have used better visuals we can know that it might have changed the outcome tremendously. Along the same note, engineers who dissent need to be able to back up their dissention with facts, not just feelings. Engineers are meant to work objectively, and need to have impartial evidence with proper verification that cannot be disputed. The engineers at Morton-Thiokol had opinionated and impassioned arguments without much to back them up, and this ultimately left them to be