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

And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design! Cyder uses Petroski's book To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design in his course. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. This book uncovers the issues with design and the lessons we can learn from failure. I just finished reading Henry Petroski's To Engineer Is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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). No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. To study the fundamental physical potential To study these questions means exploring, not the time-bound consequences of human actions, but the timeless implications of known physical law. 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 science a single failed prediction can disprove a theory, no matter how many previous tests it has passed, while in engineering one successful design can validate a concept, no matter how many previous versions have failed.