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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski
Publisher: Vintage

A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. A really good book that changed my view on the subject was “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design book download Download To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design To engineer is human: the role of failure in successful design. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. Petroski has written more than a handful of books on engineering and picking up any one of his would qualify for a must-read. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. As Henry Petroski writes in To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, we learn more from our failures than our successes. No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. €�As Henry Petroski writes in To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, we learn more from our failures than our successes. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design! I bought a used copy of To Engineer Is Human : The Role of Failure in Successful Design sometime last year & it finally migrated to the top of Mount ToBeRead. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. I've been reading a popular text on engineering by Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1982/1992). To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski.