To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Henry Petroski)

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In To Engineer Is Human, Henry Petroski shows how studying past engineering and design failures plays a key role in shaping better design going forward.
In his seminal work, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski eloquently demonstrates the fundamental role that the analysis and understanding of past engineering and design failures play in catalyzing and shaping new design commissions.

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In the framework

  • Commission Component

In the book

  • Chapter 11, section 117 · The Influence of Time on the Commission Component
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