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

As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Why are you starving when you might be eating? 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. McGowan has been designing and building high-end products for nearly 40 years. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. 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. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. 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. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Cyder uses Petroski's book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design in his course. That reminds of a book by Henry Petroski called To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.