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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
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Page: 269
Format: djvu

There is an interesting book titled To Engineer Is Human, subtitled The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. The last post about "The Evolution of Useful Things" reminded me about another of Petroski's books that I read some years ago: "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design". Why are you starving when you might be eating? In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design ~ Henry Petroski ~ Sunny Solomon. In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. 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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Read the book review or blog post from the Bookin' with Sunny reviewers and discussions from the Book Club. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings.