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



To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design epub




To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski ebook
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Format: djvu
Page: 269


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. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. 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. 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. 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. €�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. There is an interesting book titled To Engineer Is Human, subtitled The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. 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). A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski: book review. Petroski has written more than a handful of books on engineering and picking up any one of his would qualify for a must-read. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. 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.