Each year thousands of product liability cases inundate the United States Court systems. The engineer is often used in these cases to provide his expertise to the court. This IQP analyzes three product liability cases that range from product design negligence to accident reconstruction. Furthermore, the relationship between product failure and its affect on society is analyzed.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Patel, Tejal Kirit
• Cahill, Jonathan David

Subject

• Well-Being
• Health
• Industry
• Security

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02D150I

Keyword

• Products liability

Advisor

• Dimentberg, Mikhail F.
• Hagglund, Raymond R.

Year

• 2002

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-11-23