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
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
The Unicorn Project
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Someone Builds the Dream
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Boxitects
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
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
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
The Art of Electronics
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Introduction to Algorithms
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Staff Engineer by Will LarsonInfluence by Robert B. CialdiniManaging Humans by Michael LoppThe Making of a Manager by Julie ZhuoManaging the Unmanageable by Mickey W. Mantle
Engineering Leadership
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Virtual Reality by Howard RheingoldScrum by Jeff SutherlandThe Art of Deception by Kevin D. MitnickPaleo Family by J.S.B. MorseEmpresas Feitas Para Vencer by James C. Collins
Best Technology Books
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The Idea Factory by Jon GertnerA Mind at Play by Jimmy SoniWork Rules! by Laszlo BockThe Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude ShannonThe Code Book by Simon Singh
Bell Labs
18 books — 4 voters
CMOS IC Layout by Dan CleinIC Layout Basics by Christopher Saint
IC layout design
2 books — 1 voter


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