Henry Petrosky is a
civil engineering professor at
Duke University. He is a well known author who has written many books about engineering design. His books are often required reading for
undergraduate engineers, especially
freshmen.
According to Amazon.com, here is a list of books that he wrote, sorted by publication date:
Published
- Book On the Book Shelf
- Beyond Engineering: Essays and Other Attempts to Figure Without Equations
- To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, April 1992
- The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, December 1992
- The Evolution of Useful Things, February 1994
- Design Paradigms : Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering, September 1994
- Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America, November 1996
- Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, January 1999
- Invention by Design: How Engines Get from Thought to Thing, January 2001
Not yet published
- Paperboy: Delivering the Press in the Fifties, April 2003
- Nothing's Perfect: The Nature of Design, September 2003