Henry Petroski Born: 6-Feb-1942 Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Educator, Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Engineering professor Father: Henry (shipping clerk) Mother: Victoria Brother: Bill Sister: Marianne Wife: Catherine Daughter: Karen Son: Stephen
High School: Queens, NY University: BS Mechanical Engineering, Manhattan College (1963) University: MS Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1964) University: PhD Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1968) Professor: University of Texas at Austin (1968-74) Professor: Duke University (1980-)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Society of Civil Engineers Fellow National Academy of Engineering Guggenheim Fellowship 1990-91
Author of books:
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985, nonfiction) The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance (1990, nonfiction) The Evolution of Useful Things (1992, nonfiction) Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering (1994, nonfiction) Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America (1995, history) Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing (1996, nonfiction) Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering (1997, nonfiction) The Book on the Bookshelf (1999, nonfiction) Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer (2002, memoir) Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design (2003, nonfiction) Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering (2004, nonfiction) Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design (2006, nonfiction) The Toothpick: Technology and Culture (2007, nonfiction) The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems (2010, nonfiction) An Engineer's Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession (2011, nonfiction) To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure (2012, nonfiction)
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