David Tennent |
This is an excellent and interesting course, one of the better ones from PDHengineer. It is well written and describes very well the situation surrounding the loss of the Thresher. The author makes good points and uses the examples from the Thresher incident to identify flaws in the design process for the submarine and systematic causes leading up to the accident. I will consider these points in my own review of complex engineered systems as part of my professional work.
Robert LLodra |
Very interesting forensic engineering study.
John Greaney |
Intersting and informative
philip winger |
very interesting case study.
Thomas Lamontagne |
Great course in a disaster that happened close to home. The lessons learned here can be applied to any engineering project and will likely find their way into my next one!
Stephen Brown |
Enjoyed the subject matter
Daniel McCurdy |
Course was interesting. However, the ideal gas law example used in the text provides an inaccurate result. Besides the use of gauge pressure rather than absolute (as required in all ideal gas law calculations), there also seems to be a math error as well. Using absolute pressure, the correct answer for the example is 10.2 gallons, not 8.9 gallons (I think).
WEBMASTER NOTE: Thanks for your comments. The course author has verified that the calculation in the course material was indeed incorrect. He has corrected the error. Thanks for pointing this out to us.
Donald Fry |
I thought this to be an excellent course, as good as can be done using only unclassified sources.
Peter Marshall |
Great overview of a difficult forensic analysis.
Jose Bolivar |
Interesting. However, the calculations were not thoroughly explained. An example would have been ideal.
