To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Henry Petroski explores the role of failure in successful design, offering a broad look at how engineering advances through examining mistakes, limitations, and unintended results. For readers interested in engineering, technology, design, and the ways human judgment shapes practical innovation.
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To Engineer Is Human examines the relationship between failure and successful design.
Henry Petroski considers how mistakes, shortcomings, and limitations can contribute to engineering knowledge and progress.
The book presents engineering as a discipline shaped not only by achievement, but also by careful attention to what goes wrong.
Its focus on design, risk, and learning offers a broad perspective on the human dimensions of engineering.
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