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
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There is an interesting book titled To Engineer Is Human, subtitled The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. Before the author wrote his better known work, The Pencil (1990), his first novel was To Engineer is Human: The role of failure in successful design (1985). 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. €�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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Review The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski: book review. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. Download ebook: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. 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. Recently I read a compelling book published in the 1980′s called To Engineer Is Human. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski.