Most Read This Week In 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

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
Quantum Supremacy
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
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
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
Nerdycorn
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
Crafting Interpreters
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 to Make a Friend
There Are No Accidents
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
Software Architecture in Practice
The History of the 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
Rust for Rustaceans
Someone Builds the Dream
Possible: Ways To Net Zero
Big Bertha: How a Massive Tunnel Boring Machine Dug a Highway under Seattle
Software Architecture Metrics
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)
Human-Centered AI
Blast Off!: How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America into Space
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

Abhijit Naskar
Ending inequality must be the first priority of innovation, not a performative afterthought.
Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Robert A. Heinlein
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. ...more
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