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

And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Science, and writing — to enrich the lives of everyone. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. One should remember the lesson drawn by Henri Petroski (author of the Pencil an To Engineer is Human) that success leads to a lowering of standards and failure leads to an raising of standards. I bought a used copy of To Engineer Is Human : The Role of Failure in Successful Design sometime last year & it finally migrated to the top of Mount ToBeRead. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book.