Failure

Transforming disasters into lessons for future engineering through Root Cause Analysis and learning from failure.

How materials betray the theoretical properties assumed in engineering designs, leading to catastrophic failures.

Exploring how biological systems treat failure as feedback for adaptation rather than something to avoid.

American soldiers died in Vietnam because their rifles jammed. Not from enemy action—from bureaucratic decisions about gunpowder and cleaning kits. The M16 debacle reveals how logistics failures at the Pentagon killed soldiers in the field.

Case studies of how perfect compliance with systems and procedures can produce catastrophic outcomes.