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

Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon
The Engineer's Wife
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters (Questioneers Chapter Books, #1)
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Someone Builds the Dream
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Boxitects
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 Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Art of Electronics
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Introduction to Algorithms
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodTo the Stars and Back by Camilla IsleyThe Countess Conspiracy by Courtney MilanThe Kiss Quotient by Helen HoangTalk Sweetly to Me by Courtney Milan
Romance Novels with STEM Heroines
205 books — 145 voters
The STREAM TONE by T. GillingGreat Principles of Computing by Peter J. DenningHome Networking All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies by Eric GeierSmartphone Media Production by Robb WallaceUnderstanding Computers by Deborah Morley
Personal Computing (Non-Fiction)
6 books — 9 voters

Space Settlements by Gerard K. O'NeillCosmopolis by Howard MansfieldYour Flying Car Awaits by Paul MiloThe Usborne Book of the Future by Kenneth W. Gatland2010 by Geoffrey Hoyle
Retrofuturism (nonfiction)
29 books — 6 voters
MATLAB Programming for Engineers by Stephen J. ChapmanEssentials of MATLAB Programming by Stephen J. ChapmanIntroduction to MATLAB for Engineers by William J. Palm IIIText Mining with Matlab by Rafael E. BanchsAn Engineers Guide to MATLAB by Edward B. Magrab
Best MATLAB books
12 books — 7 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingPale Blue Dot by Carl SaganThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Science Writing
258 books — 172 voters


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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. ...more ”
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Henry Ford
“ When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway. ...more ”
― Henry Ford

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