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


Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. Science, and writing — to enrich the lives of everyone. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. He has penned numerous books, including “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” and “Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering. 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". BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 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.