Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
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Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.