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The Challenger accident has been used as a case study for subjects such as engineering safety, the ethics of whistleblowing, communications and group decision-making, and the dangers of groupthink. [59] Roger Boisjoly and Allan McDonald became speakers who advocated for responsible workplace decision making and engineering ethics.
Allan James McDonald (July 9, 1937 – March 6, 2021) was an American engineer, aerospace consultant, author [1] and the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for Morton-Thiokol, a NASA subcontractor.
Roger Mark Boisjoly (/ ˌ b oʊ ʒ ə ˈ l eɪ / BOH-zhə-LAY; [2] April 25, 1938 – January 6, 2012) was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist.He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger months before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986.
Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov (Russian: Анатолий Степанович Дятлов; 3 March 1931 – 13 December 1995) was a Soviet engineer who was the deputy chief engineer for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
SIUR, senior engineer for management of the reactor (reactor operator) In the control room at the reactor control panel at the moment of explosion having been the person who pressed A3-5. Dismissed by Dyatlov but returned to his post and along with Akimov, Nekhave, Uskov and Orlov ventured to room 714/2 where he received a fatal dose of 1,300 ...
The engineer recognized that the Jaguar I-PACE, Waymo's choice of electric vehicle for its autonomous fleet, had a limited range. Jaguar advertises a range of up to 246 miles for the I-PACE.
TRW Inc. was an American corporation involved in a variety of businesses, mainly aerospace, electronics, automotive, and credit reporting. [2] It was a pioneer in multiple fields including electronic components, integrated circuits, computers, software and systems engineering.