To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design pdf
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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
Publisher: Vintage
Format: djvu
Page: 269
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. But I have not lost my interest in engineering. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for engineering. A few years before Henry Petroski penned the title "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design", I was curious and brave enough to take power tools to my own guitars. One of my favourite authors is Henry Petroski, whose book To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design led me to read anything he publishes. He has penned numerous books, including “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” and “Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering. I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Science, and writing — to enrich the lives of everyone. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. Henry Petroski is also the author of To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, which should be accessible to nearly everyone. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. 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. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design.