The Paradox Of Failure By Henry Petroski

Being an engineer is not an easy thing to reach in the life. It requires a lot of work, study and responsibility. There are many examples of successful engineers in our life. Those engineers are different from the other engineers not only because they are professional, but also the have other skills or features that makes them different than the other. An example of those great engineers is professor Henry Petroski. He is a professor in civil engineering, but also he is an author who uses his major to write many great books that talk about engineering. Being an engineering and author at the same time makes him special in my view because in that case he tells people about engineering and about his great experience. Professor Petroski was …show more content…
He kept publishing books and articles. Some of his famous books are Beyond engineering: Essays and other Attempts to figure without Equations (1990), The evolution of useful things (1992), Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and The Spanning of America (1995), and The Book on the Bookshelf (1999). Also he has written many articles that talk about engineering and many interesting topics. Some of his great articles are “ The Glorious Toothpick” The American, “Polishing the Gem: A First-Year Design Project” Journal of Engineering Education, and “The Paradox of Failure” Los Angeles Times. Petroski has published around nineteen books and many articles of newspapers and magazines. In addition he has published over refereed seventy-five journal articles in journal of applied mechanics, research in engineering design, structural safety, international journal of fracture, and engineering fracture of mechanics. Petroski is very interested in the history of technology and the nature of invention. That influences him and conquers his works. People can tell from his work that he is very interested about technology from his articles. Also he has done many researches about the history of …show more content…
In the other hand, it shows that engineering is such a flexible major that can change by the time and developed to the better. This person is an obvious example of being successful in many majors. He is professional as an engineer. Also he is a great author that uses his major experience on his articles and books. The last thing I learned from Henry is from his book To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design; simple errors can cause big and harmful disasters, so that we have to be more professional in doing our job in order to avoid the harmful consequences of our simple mistakes. Also we should not ignore the simple details while we doing our