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

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
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 Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
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
How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
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

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

Abhijit Naskar
It's not about avoiding ai, it's about delegating menial tasks to ai - fire, steam, electricity, internet, ai, these are all tools, sooner or later you will adopt it. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

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