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

This book uncovers the issues with design and the lessons we can learn from failure. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for engineering. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. His first book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, appeared in 1985. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Recently I read a compelling book published in the 1980′s called To Engineer Is Human. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. Henry Petroski is a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University. 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.