To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in

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 Henry Petroski ebook
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Format: djvu
Page: 269

In the 50's, during the space race era, when a rocket was launched in orbit successfully, the media praised the scientists. The BBC filmed a documentary, based on Petroski book “To Engineer is Human”; Publication “Design Paradigms” was ranked in 1994 by Association of American Publisher, the best book about engineering. Petroski's works A scientist or an engineer? Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. €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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. Home » CIVIL ENGINEERING » To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.