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

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
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
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
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
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
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
How To Build A Car

When I was toiling away in Intro to Civil Engineering and Econ 101, no one told me how much excelling in a professional setting came down to looking the busiest.
Ellie Palmer, Four Weekends and a Funeral – Wenn der absolut Richtige zur ganz falschen Zeit kommt: Roman

Neil A. Hogan
Seeing two female characters discuss science in a fictional streaming series or movie, without talking about romance, tears me up. More, please!
Neil A. Hogan, Hoganthology: Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology

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