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

The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Recently I read a compelling book published in the 1980′s called To Engineer Is Human. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski (Vintage, 1992) Petroski writes more (and better) 'n most writers. Since the book was published in 1982, the examples employed are somewhat dated. Petroski is the author of 15 books including, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design. On a dusty bookshelf at home, I have the book, "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. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. 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. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning.