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Henry
Petroski Reading and Reception
Henry
Petroski Book Reading and Reception
Friday, February 22, 2008
King Alumni House (Corner of Rose Street and Euclid Avenue)
5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Eastern
Parking is available behind the King Alumni House
Register
for this free event at www.ukalumni.net
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Dr.
Henry Petroski |
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar
S. Vesic Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
at Duke University. Before coming to Duke in 1980, he was a group leader
at Argonne National Laboratory, where he was responsible for research
and development efforts in fracture mechanics.
Professor Petroski is author of 13 books, including the best seller
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985),
and is the writer and presenter of the 1987 BBC-television documentary,
"To Engineer Is Human," which has been broadcast on PBS. He
writes the engineering column for American Scientist magazine
and a bimonthly column on the profession for ASEE Prism. He also lectures
widely and is interviewed frequently on radio and television.
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