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

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
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Engineer's Wife
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
The Design of Everyday Things
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
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 Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Art of Electronics
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
How To Build A Car

AI Car Design isn’t about replacing creativity; it’s about teaching machines to dream in chrome and speed. – AICars
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Automation is cost cutting by tightening the corners and not cutting them.
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