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 Henry Petroski ebook
Page: 269
Format: djvu
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161

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 subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. This book explains how engineering design (usually using civil or structural engineering examples) evolves. His first book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, appeared in 1985. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. I would recommend reading “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petronius, an accomplished author and civil engineer. -To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (by Henry Petroski). Henry Petroski is a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University. That reminds of a book by Henry Petroski called To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Read the book review or blog post from the Bookin' with Sunny reviewers and discussions from the Book Club. Since the book was published in 1982, the examples employed are somewhat dated. The work continues a theme from other books he's published, such as “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” in 2006 and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” in 1992. To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design ~ Henry Petroski ~ Sunny Solomon. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. McGowan has been designing and building high-end products for nearly 40 years. 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. Why are you starving when you might be eating? On a dusty bookshelf at home, I have the book, "To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design" by Henry Petroski. As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human.