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

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Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
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
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 to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
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
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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
How To Build A Car
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Influence by Robert B. CialdiniThe Marketing Machine by Ros ConkieStructures by J.E. GordonTeam Topologies by Matthew    SkeltonThe Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Holistic Engineer
25 books — 5 voters
Influence by Robert B. CialdiniTraction by Gino WickmanThe Marketing Machine by Ros ConkieStaff Engineer by Will LarsonHuman First, Distance Second by Thomas DeGan
Engineering Leadership
13 books — 8 voters

The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodThe Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangLove on the Brain by Ali HazelwoodLove, Theoretically by Ali HazelwoodThe Love Theorem by Camilla Isley
Romance Novels with STEM Heroines
321 books — 309 voters
New Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannAircraft Propulsion by Saeed FarokhiFrom a hod to an odd EM wave by David WestonFlight Stability and Automatic Control by Robert C. NelsonAircraft Structures for Engineering Students by T.H.G. Megson
Aerospace Engineering References
20 books — 120 voters

The STREAM TONE by T. GillingWeaving the Web by Tim Berners-LeeJulian Assange by Julian AssangeFuture Perfect by Steven JohnsonThe Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan L. Zittrain
The World Wide Web (Non-Fiction)
12 books — 10 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


“ Whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name, not a department (...) [such] that [the] person whose is putting it forward (...) must take responsibility ”
― Elon Musk

“ The most common error of an engineer is to optimize a thing which should not exists ”
― Elon Musk

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Group to catalog computer science and software engineering. Please add books you are currently r…more
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We're exploring the science, engineering, and math connections found in great children's literat…more
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Programming, math, science and engineering topics at a basic level, for recreational purposes.
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Engineering Change Lab-USA The Engineering Change Lab-USA was started in 2017, with the mission of becoming a catalyst for …more
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