[Live Webinar] Engineering Ethics: “Hold Safety Paramount” to Prevent Loss of Life, and the Case of Columbia Shuttle Disaster

This webinar first presents a summary of the Code of Ethics for Engineers focusing on safety-related provisions, followed by a discussion of how engineers and managers can work together to hold safety paramount in every aspect of a project. The tragic disintegration of Shuttle Columbia during the re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere and the cause of the disintegration will be discussed next. The Columbia disaster will be used to show how not “holding safety paramount” by engineers and their managers resulted in the tragic failure and loss of lives of seven astronauts.