So You Want to Be a Professor?: A Handbook for Graduate Students
P. Aarne Vesilind was born in Estonia and emigrated to the United States in 1949. He grew up in Bever, Pennsylvania, a small town downriver from Pittsburgh. Following his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Lehigh University, he received his Ph.D in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina. He spend a post-doctoral year with the Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo and a year as a research engineering with Bird machine Company. He joined the faculty at Duke University in 1970. In 1999 he was appointed to the R.L. Rooke Chair of the Historical and Societal Context of Engineering at Bucknell University. He served in this capacity until his retirement in 2006.