Co-Op Student

When Bruce Barton is pressed for time to complete the stress testing of a plastic component for new appliance model for his company, his colleague who is also the coordinator for the company's engineering co-op student program suggests that Jack, a smart co-op student with experience in stress tests, complete the tests and write up the report. When the prototypes for the new appliance go out of operation due to a catastrophic failure of the component that the student Jack tested, Bruce looks back at Jack's notebook and realizes that the data from the stress tests look too good. He thinks that many of the measurements are either in error, or they have been faked.