http://www.prism-magazine.org/dec10/feature_02.cfm

Charles Q. Choi has written an article entitled “Learning from Disaster” in Prism (published by the American Society of Engineering Education). It focuses primarily on lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill by engineers, including the role of redundancy (done correctly) in limiting the possibility of failure, and the need for engineers to be conscientious in their designs and persuasive and forthcoming in their critques of engineered systems when they know something to be wrong.