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

Find 0 Sale, Discount and Low Cost items for failure is success - prices as low as $8.99. A Good Book, from Victor Niederhoffer. 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. 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. This book uncovers the issues with design and the lessons we can learn from failure. Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. A good book to put engineering in perspective is To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and others by Petroski. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. 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. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.