To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in

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

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. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design! Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. I've been reading a popular text on engineering by Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1982/1992). This book uncovers the issues with design and the lessons we can learn from failure. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. But I have not lost my interest in engineering. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful 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.