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
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
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Robert A. Heinlein
The world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better... with hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

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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