Lecture 5 Reflection

In this lecture, we are focusing on the human nature factors that could cause catastrophic failures. Mainly, we are looking at psychological issues, organizational issues, and cognitive threshold for understanding. Today, we have some god-like technologies, yet we also have stone-age emotions. This could drastically affect how designs and the final product operates due to our biases or other emotions. Needless to say, this would so increase the risks associated with the design. Human emotions can not only affect engineering failure, but also how we analyze these failures. Professor Halada suggests that a more structured and team oriented approach could eliminate or minize the effects of biases and oversight. Naturally, as these engineering projects scales in complexity to factor in the human emotions, it becomes harder to assess and control. Which could also lead to increased risk of failure.