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

A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. His first book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, appeared in 1985. To study the fundamental physical potential To study these questions means exploring, not the time-bound consequences of human actions, but the timeless implications of known physical law. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for engineering. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! Henry Petroski is a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University. 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. In science a single failed prediction can disprove a theory, no matter how many previous tests it has passed, while in engineering one successful design can validate a concept, no matter how many previous versions have failed. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. 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". ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! But I have not lost my interest in engineering. 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.