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

Cyder uses Petroski's book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design in his course. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design! But I have not lost my interest in engineering. 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). 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. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski (Vintage, 1992) Petroski writes more (and better) 'n most writers. A good book to put engineering in perspective is To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and others by Petroski. Petroski has written more than a handful of books on engineering and picking up any one of his would qualify for a must-read. I just finished reading Henry Petroski's To Engineer Is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design. Home » CIVIL ENGINEERING » To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. A Good Book, from Victor Niederhoffer. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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.