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

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


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




An older uderstanding creativity is in this book: “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. Home » CIVIL ENGINEERING » To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. €�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 moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures.