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

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski (Vintage, 1992) Petroski writes more (and better) 'n most writers. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. Technological factors-those related to the role, use and economics, have been much more decisive than the literary profile in the book and the furniture that fits. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design book download Download To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design To engineer is human: the role of failure in successful design. 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. In science a single failed prediction can disprove a theory, no matter how many previous tests it has passed, while in engineering one successful design can validate a concept, no matter how many previous versions have failed. A Good Book, from Victor Niederhoffer. Recently I read a compelling book published in the 1980′s called To Engineer Is Human. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. To study the fundamental physical potential To study these questions means exploring, not the time-bound consequences of human actions, but the timeless implications of known physical law. A good book to put engineering in perspective is To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and others by Petroski. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning.