Mr. Petroski is a professor of engineering and of history at Duke University.

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Windows 2000 has been years in the making and, with up to 4, 000 programmers involved at any one time and well over 30m lines of code, has been described as one of the biggest engineering projects in history.

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At Manor, a history teacher might get together with a math teacher and develop a project about the impact of castles on world history and the engineering behind building castles.

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Despite the stepped-up activity, some art dealers still bemoan what they call the indifference of the tech world and write off tech billionaires as glorified engineering nerds who skipped art history to play with their computers.

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The organic community remains unswayed by either biology or history, however, and modern genetic engineering remains prohibited from organic agriculture.

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In fact, the Duesenberg Model J fairly blows away most cars in history, whether you judge its coachwork, engineering, or sheer presence.

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While we may be trying to reform our schools to make them more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) focused, we cannot forget about the importance of history.

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Mr. Bakrie and Mr. Panigoro share a history that goes back the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology, where they graduated with degrees in electrical engineering in 1973.

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