Classes are held Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 -- 10:00 and 10:00 -- 11:20, in MC 4040.
In a non-RPE week, discussions will consume the entirety of the time on Tuesday and Thursday. The following is a set of readings for each week. Do not feel pressured to read each and every paper (there are a lot of papers below!) but do read at least some of the papers and be prepared to comment on themand the topics of the week. This list of papers will be updated throughout the course as students suggestions are received.
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The film describes the dishonesty associated with the 17-year development of the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle.
The Wikipedia page titled "The_Pentagon_Wars" gives a summary of the movie and pointers to other information.
Video summarizes the Challenger Disaster and ends with Richard Feynman's demonstration of the inflexibility of the O ring at 0C, the temperature at launch time
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