I have just returned from a visit to the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, GA. I was fortunate enough to have been invited by distinguished faculty of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE School) to hold some introductory lectures.

My topic of choice for the guest seminar was (naturally) system safety-related: I explained the potential risk involved in making flawed design assumptions when developing safety-critical systems. Similar to previous lectures, I used some cautionary tales from accident investigation reports as a guideline. You may wish to refer the links page for more details. Read more…