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Apr. 13, 2012
Engineering for Success by Building on Failure
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In a new book, To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, engineer Henry Petroski chronicles disasters from the sinking of the Titanic to the destruction of space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. Petroski discusses why these accidents are often caused by factors other than a design flaw.
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Henry Petroski
Author, To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure (Harvard, 2012)
Professor of Civil Engineering and History
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
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