The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

I'd be interested in knowing how many of y'all are being taught about this sort of thing in college ethics/safety/reliability classes.

I was taught about this in engineering school, as part of a general engineering course also covering things like bathtub reliability curves and how to calculate the number of redundant cooling pumps a nuclear power plant needs. But it's a long time since I was in college.

Is this sort of thing still taught to engineers and developers in college these days?

A big thing that was emphasized in my computer engineering courses at Purdue in the early 90s with regards to machine interfaces was hysteresis. A machine has a RANGE of behaviors throughout it's operating area that might not be accounted fro in your programing and you must take that into consideration (i.e. a robotic arm or electric motor doesn't just 'stop' instantly).

Analog systems do not behave like computers.