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

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. Download ebook: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Why are you starving when you might be eating? As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. Petroski is the author of 15 books including, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design.