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
Publisher: Vintage
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161

That reminds of a book by Henry Petroski called To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. Cyder uses Petroski's book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design in his course. To study the fundamental physical potential To study these questions means exploring, not the time-bound consequences of human actions, but the timeless implications of known physical law. To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski. In science a single failed prediction can disprove a theory, no matter how many previous tests it has passed, while in engineering one successful design can validate a concept, no matter how many previous versions have failed. 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. McGowan has been designing and building high-end products for nearly 40 years. A really good book that changed my view on the subject was “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.