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. ...more

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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
The Unicorn Project
Clean Architecture
Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
Energy and Civilization: A History
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
The Art of Electronics
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Introduction to Algorithms
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
The Making of an Expert Engineer by James Trevelyan
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“ Amateurs only study successful projects, professionals study failures. ”
― Larrie D. Ferreiro

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