Biography

Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He has written on many aspects of engineering and technology, including design, success and failure, error and judgment, the history of engineering and technology, and the use of case studies in education and practice. His books on these subjects, which are intended for professional engineers and general readers alike, include: To Engineer Is Human , which was adapted for a BBC-television documentary; The Pencil ; The Evolution of Useful Things ; Design Paradigms , which was named by the Association of American Publishers as the best general engineering book published in 1994; Engineers of Dreams ; Invention by Design ; Remaking the World ; The Book on the Bookshelf ; Paperboy ; and Small Things Considered .

Associated Articles

Engineering
	China Journal I *
	Work and Play *
	The Civil Engineer: On the occasion of a sesquicentennial *
	Dorton Arena: On the occasion of its 50th anniversary and its dedication as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark *
	John Scott Russell *
	Technology and Societies *
	Art and Iron and Steel *
	Daubert and Kumho *
	Drawing Bridges *
	Fuel Cells *
	The Fall of Skyscrapers *
	Delivering Papers *
	Everyday Design *
	Fazlur Khan *
	Hotel Design *
	Twin Bridges *
	Pyramids as Inclined Planes *
	Things Small and Large *
	Technology and the Humanities *
	Buildings and Bookstacks *
	Big Dig, Big Bridge *
	Fax and Context
	Down Under *
	Painful Design *
	Making Headlines *
	St. Francis Dam *
	Shopping By Design *
	Next Slide, Please *
	Why Things Break *
	Industrial Origami *
	Millennium Legacies *
	Levees and Other Raised Ground *
	A Great Profession *
	Past and Future Failures *
	Waldo-Hancock Bridge *
	Lives of the Engineers *
	The Bay Bridge *
	Time-Sensitive Material *
	Concrete Canoes *
	Benjamin Franklin Bridge *
	An Independent Inventor *
	Bridges of Charleston *
	Deployable Structures *
	Human Factors *
	Framing Hypotheses: A Cautionary Tale *
	China Journal II *
	Early Education *
	On the Road *
	Lab Notes *
	Bath Iron Works *
	Bilbao *
	From Connections to Collections *
	Floating Bridges *
	Boat Lifts *
	New and Future Bridges *
	Vanities of the Bonfire *
	Why 'The Pencil'? *
	Long Crossings *
	Thomas Telford *
	Twists, Tags and Ties *
	Thomas Telford *
	A Bridge and Observatory *
	The Simplest Thing *
	The Cantilever *
	What's In a Name Tag? *
	William Barclay Parsons *
	Scientists as Inventors *
	Tower Cranes *
	Machu Picchu *