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

But I have not lost my interest in engineering. Posted April 29, 2010 at 5:35 am | Permalink. To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design ~ Henry Petroski ~ Sunny Solomon. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. The work continues a theme from other books he's published, such as “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” in 2006 and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” in 1992. Our thread on talking with fundamentalists and various threads now active on the Open Anthropology Cooperative, reminded me of Henry Petroski's classic To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. [4] To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, ISBN-13 978-0679734161. 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. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Review The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for engineering. Read the book review or blog post from the Bookin' with Sunny reviewers and discussions from the Book Club. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. For what it's worth, I haven't noticed any striking resemblances. ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.