Case Studies Disaster Bundle - 5 hrs.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Engineering Ethics: Kansas City Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse 2
This course introduces students to the catastrophic event that occurred in 1981 claiming the lives of 114 people. Some engineers have called this event "the tragedy that changed professional engineering in America forever." This single event propelled ethics into every state licensing board in the United States. The training course will guide the professional engineer through the NSPE code of ethics along with both actual and hypothetical situations related to this incident.
- Learning from Tragedy: The RMS Titanic and the Hindenburg 2
This course will provide the student with a recounting of the major facts and findings from the original investigation. It also provides reexamination of these events using modern root cause analysis to determine if the original investigators missed learnings from these events. This course will provide the student with a recounting of the major facts and findings.
- New London School Tragedy: Gas & Boiler Analysis 1
This course's objectives are to provide Professional Engineers with an understanding of the New London Texas School explosion in 1937 that changed Professional Engineering in Texas. Now a staple discussion topic in ethics and incident learning in Texas, many are discovering this incident's value for all engineers. This course will reframe the original incident investigation discussing the official Texas Militia commissions report to the forty-sixth session of the Texas Congress.