Henry Petroski
Author
1942 –
Who is Henry Petroski?
Henry Petroski is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, and silverware. He is a frequent lecturer and a columnist for the magazines American Scientist and Prism. His most recently published book is To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure.
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- Born
- Feb 6, 1942
Brooklyn - Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
( - 1968) - Bachelor of Science, Manhattan College
Mechanical Engineering
( - 1963)
- PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Employment
- Duke University
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
(1942/02/06 - ) - North Carolina
(1980 - )
- Brooklyn
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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