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

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". But I have not lost my interest in engineering. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Petroski's works A scientist or an engineer? 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. Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. His first book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, appeared in 1985. People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. Read the book review or blog post from the Bookin' with Sunny reviewers and discussions from the Book Club. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. 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. Henry Petroski, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, says that in his field, failure is almost a prerequisite for success, because only by reaching a point of failure can you define the limits of possibility. To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design ~ Henry Petroski ~ Sunny Solomon. 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. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Henry Petroski is a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University. 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. 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. In the 50's, during the space race era, when a rocket was launched in orbit successfully, the media praised the scientists.