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

-To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (by Henry Petroski). I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. A really good book that changed my view on the subject was “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. 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. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. This book explains how engineering design (usually using civil or structural engineering examples) evolves. Petroski's works A scientist or an engineer? In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. 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, by Henry Petroski. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books.