Consult Peers at Work

Question:

The bench tests showed that temperature can adversely affect the resiliency, and therefore the effectiveness, of the O-rings, yet management at Thiokol and NASA shows no interest in planning a design change. What general courses of action are reasonable for an engineer in this sort of situation?

Answer: Consult peers at work.

It would be good to see if everyone interprets the test results the same way.

Cite this page: "Consult Peers at Work" Online Ethics Center for Engineering 5/21/2006 National Academy of Engineering Accessed: Thursday, February 09, 2012 <www.onlineethics.org/Topics/ProfPractice/Exemplars/BehavingWell/RB-intro/Early/Peers2.aspx>

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