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

Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. I would recommend reading “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petronius, an accomplished author and civil engineer. Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. 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. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. 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. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski.