engineering

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (Thomas Dunne Book)
$14.95
This book shows the inherent connection of the science of engineering and the things engineers build with the humanity of their application. This is an incredible book and should be mandatory high school reading. If I had read this book I would have been more likely to go into engineering - and would have been confident that double majoring engineering with a liberal art which would have best served my interests.

The lessons go beyond the profession of engineering. The book could be used in an ethics course for Banking, Medicine, Political Science and any other profession where power corrupts.

Chapter 3 is full of insights on why we always needed strict financial oversight of big business (remember Glass-Steagall Act?). See p. 19-20 for starters: "Although they were men of conscience, they did not assume that the world could be ruled by conscience alone. Civilized men had long recognized that laws and regulations, mutually agreed upon, are the only sound protection for society against the self-interest of each of us. The founding fathers of the Constitution considered this as a given. James Madison asserted that men needed governing because they were not angels. Even Thomas Jefferson, that great believer in popular democracy, said, 'In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down by the claims of the constitution.'"

An Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
$109.95
i think its quite helpful for those who want to understand mech engineering. it tells you what can be applied and how its applied.

Janice VanCleave's Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun (Science for Every Kid Series)
$14.95
This is a great book if you're looking for simple and quick labs to support engineering concepts related to structure, acoustics, stress, hydraulics, earthquakes, meteorolgy and more. Each section comes with a "What You Need to Know" that is very helpful for teacher background knowledge and vocabulary, and has been written in a very kid-friendly and teacher-friendly manner.

Engineering and the Mind's Eye
$29.00
In engineering, what in truth wins out and why?

-Nonverbal thoughts or unambiguous verbal desciptions?
-Art or science?

The answers to such questions can be found within the pages of this book. Nonverbal thoughts are a kind of art. And both of them will, based on history, win out.

Actually, seeing a vision that involves a win-win between art and science is the correct approach. To account for many current engineering fiascoes, Ferguson often sites late 1950's changes in curriculum at top universities as they chased after "science-orientated" federal funding.

Post world-war II misconceptions between what is science and what is in fact technology (art) have resulted in problematic media reports and poor federal policy. From MIT to NASA, our top technology institutes torture themselves in the name of "science." For instance: from the lunar landar to the space-shuttle, space-craft are almost pure technology (art). Naturally, current technologists need to be able to check themselves with fundamental science principles and that is a purpose of ABET B.S.-type engineering degrees.

A strange, new badge of intelligence seems to be the ability to see through all this.