ABSTRACT

Industrial failures involving significant damage to people, the environment, material assets and production are taught in a multidisciplinary setting for both students andfaculty members involved in the course. Analysis of a given industrial problem is presented by several lecturers from differing engineering and business backgrounds to a student body comprising approxi­ mately 40 students per section from all disciplines in the engineering and business faculties. In the near future, occupational medicine students will be introduced to the program. Keywords: Case studies, failure analysis, teamwork, teaching.