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When I was the graduate teaching assistant for a software engineering lab, the students got a week off to do research on software failures that harmed humans. For many of the students it was the first time they gave any thought to the concept of software causing actual physical harm. I'm glad we were able to expose them to this reality but also was a bit disheartened as they should have thought about it far before a fourth year course in their major.

Per younger, CS, colleagues who went through school in the last 6 years, it was still being taught at their smaller US colleges.

Was definitely covered in my small school program in Embedded Systems in the early 2000s.

It was covered in at least one of my classes as well. (Graduated only a few years ago.)

The book I use to instruct software engineering uses it, and I do use that chapter.