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

To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional 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. Cyder uses Petroski's book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design in his course. 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. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. I remember reading “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” a long while ago and the take home lesson for me was we have to learn from our failures. 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. Download ebook: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Petroski has written more than a handful of books on engineering and picking up any one of his would qualify for a must-read. This book uncovers the issues with design and the lessons we can learn from failure. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design.