Design for Mechanical Fatigue: Predicting mechanical failure under variable repetitive cyclic loading

Carl F. Zorowski is Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University. He attended Carnegie Mellon University, earned his doctorate in 1956 and taught there until 1962 when he went to North Carolina State University retiring. His academic carrier included teaching, research and administration. He served as Head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affair in the NCSU College of Engineering. He cofounded and directed the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Institute, an early inter-disciplinary master's practice program. His passion is classroom instruction, course content development and delivery methods emphasizing mathematical modeling and design performance analysis of mechanical systems. In 1993-97 he directed the NSF South Eastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education dedicated to revitalizing undergraduate curricula. Following retirement in 1997 he has offered graduate level courses in Mechanical Design Engineering for the college's distance education master's degree program. He is a fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.