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

Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon
The Engineer's Wife
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
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
Someone Builds the Dream
Boxitects
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
The Unicorn Project
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
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
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Best Technology Books
15 books — 4 voters
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Romance Novels with STEM Heroines
207 books — 147 voters

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Engineering Leadership
6 books — 2 voters


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