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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 Henry Petroski ebook
Publisher: Vintage
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Page: 269

They designed and implemented the system. His first book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, appeared in 1985. People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. Henry Petroski is a professor of civil engineering and history at Duke University. Human-Centered Design has become such a dominant theme in design that it is now accepted by interface and application designers automatically, without thought, let alone criticism. 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? To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. An older uderstanding creativity is in this book: “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski. The activities, after all, are human activities, so they reflect the possible range of actions, of conditions under which people are able to function, and the constraints of real people. In the 50's, during the space race era, when a rocket was launched in orbit successfully, the media praised the scientists. Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. 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. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835.