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

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". McGowan has been designing and building high-end products for nearly 40 years. 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. 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. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design! Our thread on talking with fundamentalists and various threads now active on the Open Anthropology Cooperative, reminded me of Henry Petroski's classic To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. I've been reading a popular text on engineering by Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1982/1992). He has penned numerous books, including “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” and “Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering. They designed and implemented the system. 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. That reminds of a book by Henry Petroski called To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Science, and writing — to enrich the lives of everyone. I just finished reading Henry Petroski's 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. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. Since the book was published in 1982, the examples employed are somewhat dated.