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

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 Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. 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. Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. In the 50's, during the space race era, when a rocket was launched in orbit successfully, the media praised the scientists. The BBC filmed a documentary, based on Petroski book “To Engineer is Human”; Publication “Design Paradigms” was ranked in 1994 by Association of American Publisher, the best book about engineering. 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's works A scientist or an engineer? No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. 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. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. They designed and implemented the system.