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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"

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
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Engineering Books

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
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Lists

Cosmos by Carl SaganA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootPale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Science Writing
284 books — 140 voters
In Crypto We Trust by Shivam SinghBTC by Shivam SinghSolana by Shivam SinghEthereum by Shivam SinghTokenomics by Stefan Piech
Bitcoin Books
89 books — 23 voters

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanWhat Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures ... by Richard P. FeynmanThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaEinstein by Walter IsaacsonThe Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
100 Books about Science and Engineering for Grown-Ups
122 books — 35 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)
30 books — 7 voters

Aircraft Propulsion by Saeed FarokhiFlight Stability and Automatic Control by Robert C. NelsonAircraft Structures for Engineering Students by T.H.G. MegsonIntroduction to Flight by John D. Anderson Jr.Foundations of Aerodynamics by Arnold M. Kuethe
Aerospace Engineering References
16 books — 20 voters
The STREAM TONE by T. GillingGreat Principles of Computing by Peter J. DenningHome Networking All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies by Eric GeierSmartphone Media Production by Robb WallaceUnderstanding Computers by Deborah Morley
Personal Computing (Non-Fiction)
6 books — 9 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Engineering”

Robert A. Heinlein
“ One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. ...more ”
― Robert A. Heinlein
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Haresh Sippy
“ As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach. ”
― Haresh Sippy
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Groups Tagged "Engineering"

Flatiron Engineering A place to share good reads on topics that could apply to engineers at Flatiron
5 members, last active 9 years ago
Inspiration Lane Using the power of story to broaden interest in and appreciation for science, technology, engine…more
33 members, last active 10 years ago
A private group to shelf textbooks on math, computer science, and engineering
1 member, last active 10 months ago
OLX Product Data & Tech + Management Books that are of interest to all within OLX Hub's…more
20 members, last active 6 years ago