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

To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski: book review. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. 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. This book explains how engineering design (usually using civil or structural engineering examples) evolves. -To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (by Henry Petroski). And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. I bought a used copy of To Engineer Is Human : The Role of Failure in Successful Design sometime last year & it finally migrated to the top of Mount ToBeRead. 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. Before the author wrote his better known work, The Pencil (1990), his first novel was To Engineer is Human: The role of failure in successful design (1985). I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. 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. Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. Technological factors-those related to the role, use and economics, have been much more decisive than the literary profile in the book and the furniture that fits. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.