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
Page: 269
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161


Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. There is an interesting book titled To Engineer Is Human, subtitled The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. But I have not lost my interest in engineering. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. Cyder uses Petroski's book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design in his course. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. A really good book that changed my view on the subject was “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. 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. 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. Recently I read a compelling book published in the 1980′s called To Engineer Is Human.