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

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski ebook
Page: 269
Format: djvu
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161

Since the book was published in 1982, the examples employed are somewhat dated. Cyder uses Petroski's book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design in his course. Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. Success through Failure: The Paradox of 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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. A few years before Henry Petroski penned the title "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design", I was curious and brave enough to take power tools to my own guitars. On a dusty bookshelf at home, I have the book, "To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design" by Henry Petroski. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. Petroski has written more than a handful of books on engineering and picking up any one of his would qualify for a must-read. 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. 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. Home » CIVIL ENGINEERING » To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.