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“Though ours is an age of high technology, the essence of what engineering is and what engineers do is not common knowledge. Even the most elementary of principles upon which great bridges, jumbo jets, or super computers are built are alien concepts to many. This is so in part because engineering as a human endeavor is not yet integrated into our culture and intellectual tradition. And while educators are currently wrestling with the problem of introducing technology into conventional academic curricula, thus better preparing today’s students for life in a world increasingly technological, there is as yet no consensus as to how technological literacy can best be achieved. " I believe, and I argue in this essay, that the ideas of engineering are in fact in our bones and part of our human nature and experience. Furthermore, I believe that an understanding and an appreciation of engineers and engineering can be gotten without an engineering or technical education. Thus I hope that the technologically uninitiated will come to read what I have written as an introduction to technology. Indeed, this book is my answer to the questions 'What is engineering?' and 'What do engineers do?'" - Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human


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  • Author : Henry Petroski
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Genre : Technology & Engineering
  • Total Pages : 272 pages
  • ISBN : 1250228077
  • PDF File Size : 34,8 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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To Engineer is Human

To Engineer is Human
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • File Size : 55,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 16 October 2018
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“Though ours is an age of high technology, the essence of what engineering is and what engineers do is not common knowledge. Even the most elementary of principles upon which

Remaking the World

Remaking the World
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • File Size : 25,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 December 1998
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Science/Engineering "Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind."

To Forgive Design

To Forgive Design
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • File Size : 33,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 13 April 2012
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Argues that failures in structural engineering are not necessarily due to the physical design of the structures, but instead a misunderstanding of how cultural and socioeconomic constraints would affect the

Success Through Failure

Success Through Failure
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 41,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 May 2018
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Examines many of the failed designs and inventions that led to greater improvements siting as examples the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the space shuttle disasters.

The Essential Engineer

The Essential Engineer
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • File Size : 41,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 March 2011
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From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together

Design Paradigms

Design Paradigms
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 43,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 27 May 1994
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Case histories of engineering success and failure are presented to enrich understanding of the design process.

An Engineer's View of Human Error

An Engineer's View of Human Error
  • Publisher : IChemE
  • File Size : 46,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 04 May 2024
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This title looks at how people, as opposed to technology and computers within plants, are arguably the most unreliable factor, leading to dangerous situations.

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
  • Publisher : Souvenir Press
  • File Size : 44,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 October 2013
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Humans have always sought to change their environment - building houses, monuments, temples and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the world into newly functional objects

Paperboy

Paperboy
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • File Size : 24,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 18 December 2007
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Anyone wondering what sort of experience prepares one for a future as an engineer may be surprised to learn that it includes delivering newspapers. But as Henry Petroski recounts his

Engineers of Dreams

Engineers of Dreams
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • File Size : 20,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 December 2010
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Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and