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

Download ebook: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. The subtitle of his book is the role 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. As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. 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. This book explains how engineering design (usually using civil or structural engineering examples) evolves. 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". To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Petroski is the author of 15 books including, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design. -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. Why are you starving when you might be eating? Technological factors-those related to the role, use and economics, have been much more decisive than the literary profile in the book and the furniture that fits. ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER!