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

On a dusty bookshelf at home, I have the book, "To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design" by Henry Petroski. The work continues a theme from other books he's published, such as “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” in 2006 and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” in 1992. In addition to The Essential Engineer, which was published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. Brilliant analysis of engineering "failure" and learning. You didn't mention Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Technological factors-those related to the role, use and economics, have been much more decisive than the literary profile in the book and the furniture that fits. Henry Petroski is also the author of To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, which should be accessible to nearly everyone. Since the book was published in 1982, the examples employed are somewhat dated. 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. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design.