Continuing Education

The Challenge of Ethical Technical Communication: Revisiting the Organizational and Communication Failures of the Challenger Explosion

Though the failure of the O-rings is known as the immediate cause of the Challenger explosion, this presentation will look at the communication failures that also contributed to the disaster.

Monday, March 6, 2023 at 3:00 pm

Presented by Jessica Lauer, Assistant Professor, Languages & Literatures


Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public and registration is not required. Lectures may be recorded and posted to our Fairhaven Lecture website and YouTube channel. Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.

Follow us on social media for more information. Any other questions, please contact Kari Borne at bornek@uww.edu or 262-472-1003.

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