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
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
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
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
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
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
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
The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodThe Kiss Quotient by Helen  HoangLove on the Brain by Ali HazelwoodThe Love Theorem by Camilla IsleyLove, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Romance Novels with STEM Heroines
328 books — 273 voters

In Crypto We Trust by Shivam    SinghBTC by Shivam    SinghSolana by Shivam    SinghEthereum by Shivam    SinghTokenomics by Stefan Piech
Bitcoin Books
86 books — 22 voters

Influence by Robert B. CialdiniTraction by Gino WickmanThe Marketing Machine by Ros ConkieStaff Engineer by Will LarsonTime Management PRIVATE WORKSHOP Designed as a Book I Bit by ... by N. Sakr
Engineering Leadership
11 books — 6 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,987 books — 1,306 voters


Haresh Sippy
As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach.
Haresh Sippy

Toba Beta
Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.
Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

More quotes...
Groups for those who read in the Kappa Beta chapter of Theta Tau Professional Engineering Frater…more
6 members, last active 10 years ago
Denver Engineering Leaders Third Thursday Bookclub The bookclub offshoot of the Denver Engineering Leaders Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Denver-En…more
5 members, last active 5 years ago
Agape Book Club Business and Leadership Book Club Monthly Business Book Review, Discussion, Author Interviews, B…more
2 members, last active 7 years ago
Reading Space "Through Literature, identify ideas that can contribute to the future of aerospace." This group…more
12 members, last active 10 years ago