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

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
The Design of Everyday Things
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Art of Electronics
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
How To Build A Car
The Principia  by Isaac NewtonThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinRelativity by Albert EinsteinOn The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus CopernicusA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Science Through History
226 books — 11 voters

The STREAM TONE by T. GillingFrom GSM to LTE-Advanced Pro and 5G by Martin Sauter5G Physical Layer by Ali ZaidiIPv6 Deployment and Management by Michael DooleyThe Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan L. Zittrain
Telecommunications (Non-Fiction)
46 books — 10 voters
Aircraft Propulsion by Saeed FarokhiFlight Stability and Automatic Control by Robert C. NelsonAircraft Structures for Engineering Students by T.H.G. MegsonIntroduction to Flight by John D. Anderson Jr.Foundations of Aerodynamics by Arnold M. Kuethe
Aerospace Engineering References
16 books — 20 voters

Space Settlements by Richard D. JohnsonCosmopolis 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
Cosmos by Carl SaganA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootPale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Science Writing
284 books — 140 voters


Abhijit Naskar
AI without ethics is hollow, innovation without wisdom is dangerous. Progress without humanity is regression, abundance without awareness is derangement.
Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

Haresh Sippy
In engineering, the joints are the most crucial. They have to be both firm and flexible, exactly like the joints in our body.
Haresh Sippy

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