Texas City Oil Refinery Explosion

you will examine the values that drive the decisions of each
party to the case. you will opine that parties to the case hold the right values or the wrong values, explain why, and opine whether we can do better in our own work

as engineers.

You must address each of the following questions:

* Which values and/or interests (seem to have) guided the major players in the case?
* Do you think we should share their values? Why?
* Were their decisions the best they could have made, given what they valued and what they knew?
* Whose interests were being served or neglected by those decisions?
* Who was made worse off, or better off?
* Were regulations at the time sufficient, or should they be changed? Why?
* What can we learn from this case about how to be better engineers?