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

No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. Why are you starving when you might be eating? 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. Petroski's works A scientist or an engineer? 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. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. In the 50's, during the space race era, when a rocket was launched in orbit successfully, the media praised the scientists. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. 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. And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book 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. Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design ~ Henry Petroski ~ Sunny Solomon. Home » CIVIL ENGINEERING » To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. Read the book review or blog post from the Bookin' with Sunny reviewers and discussions from the Book Club. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835.