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


For what it's worth, I haven't noticed any striking resemblances. Posted April 29, 2010 at 5:35 am | Permalink. People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. Petroski has written more than a handful of books on engineering and picking up any one of his would qualify for a must-read. 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. 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. Human-Centered Design has become such a dominant theme in design that it is now accepted by interface and application designers automatically, without thought, let alone criticism. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. The activities, after all, are human activities, so they reflect the possible range of actions, of conditions under which people are able to function, and the constraints of real people. No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. A Good Book, from Victor Niederhoffer. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. The last post about "The Evolution of Useful Things" reminded me about another of Petroski's books that I read some years ago: "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design". A good book to put engineering in perspective is To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and others by Petroski. 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. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. [4] To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, ISBN-13 978-0679734161. I remember reading “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” a long while ago and the take home lesson for me was we have to learn from our failures.