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

The Engineer's Wife
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Someone Builds the Dream
System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Boxitects
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
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
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
The Art of Electronics
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
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
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumBonk by Mary RoachSpook by Mary Roach
Popular Science Books Written By Women
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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
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline KellyA School for Unusual Girls by Kathleen BaldwinThe Curious World of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline KellyThe Green Glass Sea by Ellen KlagesExile for Dreamers by Kathleen Baldwin
STEM Girls in Historical Fiction
36 books — 21 voters
Conceptual Blockbusting by James L. AdamsSoftware Measurement Guidebook by Software Productivity Conso...ZX Spectrum Games Code Club by Gary PlowmanOOP Concepts Booster  by Rakesh SinghProgramming Pearls by Jon L. Bentley
Code Complete Reading Plan
22 books — 4 voters


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Haresh Sippy
“ As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach. ”
― Haresh Sippy

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“ Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. ”
― Prakhar Srivastav

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