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Penn State Course Teaches Engineering Success Based on Catastrophic Failure

"Everybody likes to look at car crashes, everybody likes to see houses explode." It's a sentiment you'd expect from a programmer for the Fox network, but not necessarily from a professor. Yet it was that realization that prompted R.P. McNitt, a professor of mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, to create...

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