Do Engineering Student Fear about Failure

“Do engineering students think about failure? Not about failing a test or a course, but about failure as an engineering concept? If they don't, they should. Failure can teach students that yesterday's mistakes can lead to today's solutions and tomorrow's innovations; it can offer them new career options; and it can introduce them to ethics and professional responsibility”, Vicky Hendley senior editor of ASEE PRISM. That quote should be taken very seriously by any engineer building anything. You can learn everything you ever need to know from the past. By having disasters in man-made structures in the past, you can determine exactly what happened in that problem, and not repeat it in another event. A great example of not using the past as knowledge (off todays subject) was Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which shook apart in the wind just a few months after opening in 1940. Leon Moisseiff based the bridge design on the designs of several successful bridges, yet at the same time ignored t...