Aftermath Case Studies Samples For Students

- What aspects of NASA practice revealed in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster suggest that the changes sought in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster were not sustained?

NASA acted to stress more on safety and accordingly implement certain organizational changes with respect to maintaining reliability, safety, quality assurance and management. However, the Columbia disaster suggested that change was not implemented in the organization. The recommendations of the board during the Challenger disaster revealed an autocratic leadership held by Marshall and similar autocratic styles still existed which lead to the Columbia disaster. Despite knowing the possible catastrophic effects, ...

Overview

The paper will present a case study of the terrorist attack on the United States – US on 9th September 2001. The terrorist attack will be analyzed in the area of upcoming events, actual attacks and its consequences. The primary perpetrators of the attack were members of the terrorist group al-Qaida. The goals of 19 affiliated men from different countries were attacks on the American symbols. The targets chosen include the capitol White House, World Trade Center and Pentagon. A tactic used was plane hijacking and the larger issues at stake went beyond the domestic politics into the international politics, ...

- Key Facts
- A lawsuit was filed in 1979 on behalf of veterans that were harmed by Agent Orange (chemical product). Monsanto agreed to settle for $180 million.
- In 1987 Monsanto was found liable for failing to warn Missouri town residents about the risk of a 1979 chemical spill. The jury awarded plaintiffs $16.2 million in punitive damage.
- Monsanto agreed to pay $1.5 million fine for bribing an Indonesian high official for bypassing an environmental study.
- Criticism for Roundup Ready: Roundup Ready was a genetically modified soybean crop launched by the company in ...

Abstract

The Hurricane Katrina presents one of the most devastating disasters ever witnessed by the global community. From the Engineering perspective, the Katrina disaster is of high relevance because it challenged ethics in engineering professional. The disaster caused a storm surge that levees in New Orleans were unable to sustain. Evidence affirms that the Katrina disaster is attributable to failures in various elements including engineering, political and social systems. In the Katrina case, the engineering failure that prompted the incident is identifiable in the fact that the engineers failed to armor or protect the levees against erosion. Other factors including the ...