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


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. 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. You didn't mention Petroski's 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. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. 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. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Henry Petroski is also the author of To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, which should be accessible to nearly everyone. Petroski has written more than a handful of books on engineering and picking up any one of his would qualify for a must-read. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. Download ebook: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success.