Engineering

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application.

Rosie Revere, Engineer
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
The Industries of the Future
Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
The Most Magnificent Thing
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
The Design of Everyday Things
Brave New World
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
The Art of Electronics
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Microelectronic Circuits
The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply by A. Trevor HodgeThe Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxA LM IA Ceramic Kiln in South-Central Crete by Joseph W. Shaw
Ancient Engineering
3 books — 3 voters
The STREAM TONE by T. GillingIpv6 Deployment and Management by Timothy RooneyThe Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan L. ZittrainHow Networks Work by Frank J. Derfler Jr.Networking All-In-One for Dummies by Doug Lowe
Telecommunications (Non-Fiction)
10 books — 5 voters

Talk Sweetly to Me by Courtney MilanThe Countess Conspiracy by Courtney MilanBeginner's Guide by Six de los ReyesHold Me by Courtney MilanA Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
Romance Novels with STEM Heroines
63 books — 14 voters
Animal Models in Cardiovascular Research by David R.  GrossCosmos by Carl SaganThe Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingPale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Science Writing
152 books — 139 voters

“ Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not an engineer, because an engineer is somebody who starts with a social problem that an organization or a society has and says, "OK, here's this problem that we have- how can we solve it?" The engineer comes up with a clever, cost-effective solution to address that problem, builds it, tests it to make sure it solves the problem. That's engineering. ”
― Philip Greenspun

Neal Stephenson
“ It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers. ”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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