Engineering

[close] A place to discuss and share recommendations about books related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This group is open to all. Your moderator is Kendra Auberry, STEM Librarian for Indian River State College in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Awareness and support for STEM education is my work and passion. As part of this commitment I spend time each month reading STEM related books. Please use this space as a way to converse about these books or the topics that are brought up in the discussion boards. We'll be reading a book a month. Please also feel free to send suggestions of books to read in future months or other ways you think of to make this online book club fun and engaging.

[close] The goal of this group is to read, discuss, and recommend books with engineering themes. It is not meant to be a strictly technical forum. It can include both fiction and nonfiction. Examples of fiction could be such books as "Chase the Wind" by E. V. Thompson, "Engineered for Murder" by Aileen Schumacher, "Discussion of the Method" by Billy Vaughn Coen,and "The Ghost of the Executed Engineer" by Loren Graham. In short, it is meant to look at engineering and technical themes in the context of literature, society, and philosophy.

[close] To build “the biggest thing, ever!” – LiftPort’s Space Elevator – requires an enormous breadth and depth of knowledge. Naturally, there are technical challenges. These problems of physics, chemistry and orbital dynamics are the ‘sexy’ issues that get all the media attention. But there are additional questions – law, international policy, military implications, theology, finance, operational management, education, human resources, risk mitigation/insurance and more… These concerns cannot be solved with a calculator or a spreadsheet. These are problems which involve people; which mean they are problems not of facts, but of emotions. There are plenty of technical questions that our specialists are working on, but we’ve created this book club to prioritize on the ‘human’ aspect of building the Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure. This book club is developed as a way of organizing topics to focus on. I have segmented the problems into “Challenges” (below). This book club will tackle books in all of these topics (posted in a Folder). The goal is to both educate myself / my team and of vital importance – to educate our fans / general population. We will read a variety of books (two per month) that will impact the development of Elevators on the Moon, and eventually on Mars and the Terrestrial Space Elevator here on the Earth! I invite you to join and participate in our discussions. Your intelligence, input, advice and wisdom are valued! Thanks for your interest and participation. Michael Laine www.twitter.com/mlaine President, LiftPort Group www.liftport.com

[close] If you are most often found holed up in your Atlanta home reading the latest on anything from quantum mechanics to squids, you're in the right place. This is a book club in the Atlanta area devoted to non-fiction science literature. We vote on and read one book every two months. Online discussion is encouraged. We meet in real life for pizza and beer when we finish the book. Feel free to post any science news, ideas, or recommendations. Have fun!