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

This book explains how engineering design (usually using civil or structural engineering examples) evolves. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. IT is assumed that it is true that ever parent wants a happy baby who will succeed in the current technological culture - and lead to a new generation of successful human offspring. -To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (by Henry Petroski). The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. Before the author wrote his better known work, The Pencil (1990), his first novel was To Engineer is Human: The role of failure in successful design (1985). This one has failed in the scripts of economics – see the crash and the recession. To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski: book review. A short simple article utilizing Kant's Categorical Imperative and Mill's Utilitarianism to critique the future of human genetic engineering. I would recommend reading “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petronius, an accomplished author and civil engineer. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Happen every minute around the world.