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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in

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



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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski ebook
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Format: djvu
Page: 269
Publisher: Vintage


To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski. A Good Book, from Victor Niederhoffer. Henry Petroski, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, says that in his field, failure is almost a prerequisite for success, because only by reaching a point of failure can you define the limits of possibility. €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. That reminds of a book by Henry Petroski called To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. I just finished reading Henry Petroski's To Engineer Is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design. Why are you starving when you might be eating? McGowan has been designing and building high-end products for nearly 40 years. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Small Talk Big Results: Chit Chat Your Way to Success . And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. A good book to put engineering in perspective is To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and others by Petroski. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. 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.