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




An older uderstanding creativity is in this book: “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski (Vintage, 1992) Petroski writes more (and better) 'n most writers. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. 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). A few years before Henry Petroski penned the title "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design", I was curious and brave enough to take power tools to my own guitars. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design! And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. But I have not lost my interest in engineering. 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. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.