Announcing the 2012 Bovay Lecture
in History and Ethics of Engineering
Wednesday April 25 – 4:30 P.M.
Allan McDonald
“Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: A Personal Account”
McDonald graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1959 and earned a master's in engineering administration from the University of Utah in 1967. He started work with Morton Thiokol in 1959 and stayed with the company, through various name changes and mergers, until 2001. Before retiring, he was Vice President and Technical Director for Advanced Technology Programs.
His new book, Truth, Lies, and O-rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster is the first book about the shuttle disaster written by someone directly involved in the decision to launch.
Bovay Program helps develop and conduct 1st annual Responsible Conduct in Research Symposium for students researchers in Bioscience and Engineering
(Click here for more information about the 1st annual RCR symposium
in Bioscience and Engineering)
The 2011 Braudy Workshop on Engineering Management Ethics was hosted by Bovay Program at Cornell on Friday Oct. 21.
Click for more information on this interdisciplinary interaction between Engineering, Business, Law, and Ethics at Cornell.