Avoiding Design Blunders
Russell W. Faust, P.E.
Course Outline
Failure is inevitable. Whatever you design will fail someday. Will it be sooner, or will it be later and come in the form of an honorable retirement after a long and useful life? Will it be sudden or gradual? Catastrophic or evolutionary?
As Architects, Engineers or Designers we strive to design for the longest practical life of our structures, systems, devices or processes. But, we cannot foresee all of the conditions against which our designs may be tested.
The failures of
the past, many of which are described in this course, serve as lessons for the
future. Here you will find some of the author's thoughts on design blunders
as well as the ideas of many others. They are presented in the hope that they
suggest some general principles of design, which you will find useful in your
work. No design professional is immune from committing blunders but, perhaps,
we can reduce their likelihood by thoughtful application of those principles.
The course content is in an PDF file (1.1 MB) Avoiding Design Blunders. You need to open or download this document to study this course.
Once you finish studying the above course content, you need to take a quiz to obtain the PDH credits.
