Henry Petroski's Profile
Brief about Henry Petroski: By info that we know Henry Petroski was born at 1942-02-06. And also Henry Petroski is American Businessman.
Some Henry Petroski's quotes. Goto "Henry Petroski's quotation" section for more.Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
Tags: Design, Done, WhetherAll conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
Tags: Good, Truth, WisdomCase studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
Tags: Design, Failure, StudyI emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
Tags: Against, Failure, ResultI employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.
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