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

To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski. ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. I just finished reading Henry Petroski's To Engineer Is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design. People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. 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 activities, after all, are human activities, so they reflect the possible range of actions, of conditions under which people are able to function, and the constraints of real people. And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Human-Centered Design has become such a dominant theme in design that it is now accepted by interface and application designers automatically, without thought, let alone criticism. I remember reading “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” a long while ago and the take home lesson for me was we have to learn from our failures. You didn't mention Petroski's 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. No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 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. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835.