To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Civil Engineering Construction Engineering Engineering Ethics Engineering Management Environmental Engineering General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: |
Audio |
| Author(s): |
Henry Petroski |
| Description: | mazon.com Review The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best known examples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action -- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seen tossing cars willy-nilly in the famous black-and-white footage), the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- and many lesser known but equally informative examples. The line of reasoning Petroski develops in this book were later formalized into his quasi-Darwinian model of technological evolution in The Evolution of Useful Things, but this book is arguably the more illuminating -- and defintely the more enjoyable -- of these two titles. Highly recommended. |
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| Keywords: | failure analysis learning from failure successful design design failure critical thinking self-reflection knowledge management |
| Usage Tip | |
| Related ABET Criteria: |
(b) Design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data (c) Design a system, component, or process |
| Use of Resource: |
Review Reading Petroski's fine book is not only a delight, it is a necessity -- Houston Chronicle. |
| Difficulty: |
Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
Very low |
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| Publication Date: | June 2010 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.amazon.com/Engineer-Human-Failure-Successful-Design/dp |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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