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

I just finished reading Henry Petroski's To Engineer Is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design. As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. 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. They designed and implemented the system. A short simple article utilizing Kant's Categorical Imperative and Mill's Utilitarianism to critique the future of human genetic engineering. Why are you starving when you might be eating? 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. 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 (Vintage, 1992) Petroski writes more (and better) 'n most writers. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Petroski has written more than a handful of books on engineering and picking up any one of his would qualify for a must-read. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. 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. The last post about "The Evolution of Useful Things" reminded me about another of Petroski's books that I read some years ago: "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design". The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. One should remember the lesson drawn by Henri Petroski (author of the Pencil an To Engineer is Human) that success leads to a lowering of standards and failure leads to an raising of standards. Happen every minute around the world. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. IT is assumed that it is true that ever parent wants a happy baby who will succeed in the current technological culture - and lead to a new generation of successful human offspring. This one has failed in the scripts of economics – see the crash and the recession.