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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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Engineering"

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

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI

Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age

Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System

The Book: The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding Civilization

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings – The Forgotten History of Daring Exploration and Human Genius

The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership

The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications

The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been

Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer

Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (Packaging may vary)

The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem

Big Bertha: How a Massive Tunnel Boring Machine Dug a Highway under Seattle

A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks

Learning Modern Linux: A Handbook for the Cloud Native Practitioner

The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer: (The True Story of a Pioneering Woman Aviation Engineer - For Kids Ages 5-9 in Grades K-4)

The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet

Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps.

Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature

A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

Blast Off!: How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America into Space

Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

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“ We need internet like we need electricity, but we don't need AI from head to toe. Monkeys consumed by mindless algorithm, eventually devolves dumber than a crow. ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

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