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

Posted April 29, 2010 at 5:35 am | Permalink. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. For what it's worth, I haven't noticed any striking resemblances. One should remember the lesson drawn by Henri Petroski (author of the Pencil an To Engineer is Human) that success leads to a lowering of standards and failure leads to an raising of standards. Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design. [4] To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, ISBN-13 978-0679734161. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures.