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

Download ebook: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. 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. Perhaps one of my favorite non-fiction books, Henry Petroski looks at a very different aspect of engineering that has not really been touched on before; the role of failure in design. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. For what it's worth, I haven't noticed any striking resemblances. [4] To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, ISBN-13 978-0679734161. Posted April 29, 2010 at 5:35 am | Permalink. 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. To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski. 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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. €�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. The last post about "The Evolution of Useful Things" reminded me about another of Petroski's books that I read some years ago: "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design".