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 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
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
System Design Interview – An insider's guide
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
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
La energía nuclear salvará el mundo: Derribando mitos sobre la energía nuclear
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
There Are No Accidents
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (Packaging may vary)
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
Crafting Interpreters
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About)
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
Nerdycorn
Software Architecture Metrics
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
My First 100 Engineering Words (My First STEAM Words)
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
Big Bertha: How a Massive Tunnel Boring Machine Dug a Highway under Seattle
Jabari Tries
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale
Boxitects
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)
Rust for Rustaceans
Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps.
The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise
Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane
Possible: Ways To Net Zero
Blast Off!: How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America into Space
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature
Someone Builds the Dream
How to Make a Friend
Sam: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
Deep Learning with PyTorch
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
Human-Centered AI
How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure
Learning Modern Linux: A Handbook for the Cloud Native Practitioner
How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
The History of the Computer
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
Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Software Architecture in Practice
Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding

William Gibson
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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.
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