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

Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. I would recommend reading “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petronius, an accomplished author and civil engineer. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. 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. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. €�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.