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September 19, 2006
Re: engineers
I'm sorry, but I disagree with Mehmet's comments. Yes, the large amount of data presented probably was very familiar to the engineers at hand, but considering the time constraints and the potential for disaster being so high, I feel they should have been more focused. Though I am not an engineer, I did attend an engineering school during my undergrad. One thing I did find to be a problem was the communication from engineering speak into layman's terms. Often engineers are very intelligent and know so much about their discipline but they aren't very good at translating technical know how into a clear, focused, and concise form of language. Numbers and formulas may speak worlds but if the one's attending your presentation don't quickly pick up on these things, the information is lost. In this situation, the engineers weren't the ones needing to be persuaded but the managers and ones giving the signals at launch. It was of utmost importance for them keep things simple, logical, and very understandable despite who the audience was.
Posted by Rory Nugent at September 19, 2006 02:21 PM