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
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Page: 269
Publisher: Vintage


Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. They designed and implemented the system. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. Home » CIVIL ENGINEERING » To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. You are an outsider, In this, I am reminded of one of my favorite books, “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design,” by Henry Petroski. 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. Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design.