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

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
The Engineer's Wife
Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Atmosphæra Incognita
The Unicorn Project
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters (Questioneers Chapter Books, #1)
Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
Someone Builds the Dream
Jabari Tries
System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Rise of the Robots by Martin FordTogether by Zoltan AndrejkovicsHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariA Compassionate Guide For Social Robots by Marcel HeerinkSuperintelligence by Nick Bostrom
Future Technology (nonfiction)
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174 books — 62 voters

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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. ”
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“ 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 ”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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