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

In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. But I have not lost my interest in engineering. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. He has penned numerous books, including “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” and “Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering. His first book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, appeared in 1985. Our thread on talking with fundamentalists and various threads now active on the Open Anthropology Cooperative, reminded me of Henry Petroski's classic To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. One of my favourite authors is Henry Petroski, whose book To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design led me to read anything he publishes. I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. 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. Henry Petroski is a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University. A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. They designed and implemented the system. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. Science, and writing — to enrich the lives of everyone. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. Download ebook: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for engineering. You are an outsider, In this, I am reminded of one of my favorite books, “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design,” by Henry Petroski.