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

Posted April 29, 2010 at 5:35 am | Permalink. [4] To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, ISBN-13 978-0679734161. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design! The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. For what it's worth, I haven't noticed any striking resemblances. 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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. I've been reading a popular text on engineering by Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1982/1992). I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. McGowan has been designing and building high-end products for nearly 40 years. That reminds of a book by Henry Petroski called To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.