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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
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Publisher: Vintage
Format: djvu
Page: 269

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Review The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. 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. On a dusty bookshelf at home, I have the book, "To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design" by Henry Petroski. 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. 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. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. The BBC filmed a documentary, based on Petroski book “To Engineer is Human”; Publication “Design Paradigms” was ranked in 1994 by Association of American Publisher, the best book about engineering. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. 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. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. In the 50's, during the space race era, when a rocket was launched in orbit successfully, the media praised the scientists. Since the book was published in 1982, the examples employed are somewhat dated. Our thread on talking with fundamentalists and various threads now active on the Open Anthropology Cooperative, reminded me of Henry Petroski's classic 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's works A scientist or an engineer? To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing.