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

New Releases Tagged "Engineering"

Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
The Book: The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding Civilization
Inference Engineering
Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
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
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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
How To Build A Car
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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Aerospace Engineering References
20 books — 120 voters
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Engineering Leadership
13 books — 8 voters

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Popular Science Books Written By Women
183 books — 77 voters
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YA & Middle Grade App Fiction
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In Crypto We Trust by Shivam    SinghBTC by Shivam    SinghSolana by Shivam    SinghEthereum by Shivam    SinghTokenomics by Stefan Piech
Bitcoin Books
92 books — 26 voters
Space Settlements by Richard D. JohnsonCosmopolis by Howard MansfieldYour Flying Car Awaits by Paul MiloThe Usborne Book of the Future by Kenneth W. Gatland2010 by Geoffrey Hoyle
Retrofuturism (nonfiction)
29 books — 6 voters


Howard Tayler
“ Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine. Actually I'm finished. In one afternoon? Wow... Does it work? After a fashion. ... I put a whole lot of energy into it, and the next thing I knew it was time for dinner. -Captain Tagon & Commander Andreyasn ...more ”
― Howard Tayler, The Tub of Happiness

“ The strongest solutions are built through knowledge, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to customer success. ”
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