How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle

Re:How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle by K2h on Friday August 17, 2012 @03:43PM (#4398373)

This is an outstanding post that shows first hand what life as an engineer is like. It is often very hard to truly come to a conclusion that is 100% correct, even given what seems like infinite resources to do testing and analysis.

The big take away from this is what it means to be a good engineer: to be able to bow your head, and admit you were wrong despite all prior evidence.

outstanding!

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Re:How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle by ak217 on Friday August 17, 2012 @08:50PM (#4399699)

> what it means to be a good engineer: to be able to bow your head

No, I think being a good engineer means building good things. When the things get sufficiently complex, that starts to require control of your ego (what you described), being a good scientist/investigator, organizational skills, etc.

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Re:How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle by CamperBob2 on Saturday August 18, 2012 @01:07AM (#4400303)

My favorite story along those lines: http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/ce131/citicorp1.htm

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Re:How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle by K2h on Saturday August 18, 2012 @11:22AM (#4401347)

that was great, thanks for posting

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