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

Read the book review or blog post from the Bookin' with Sunny reviewers and discussions from the Book Club. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design. 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. 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. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Petroski's works A scientist or an engineer? To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design ~ Henry Petroski ~ Sunny Solomon. 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. Why are you starving when you might be eating? A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. In the 50's, during the space race era, when a rocket was launched in orbit successfully, the media praised the scientists. As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. 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.