Well Rounded Engineer
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The Well-Rounded Engineer: a Technology Reading List
This started as a list put together by Ross T. LaBaugh, a CSU Fresno librarian, for an engineering professor who wanted books to help make his students more rounded in their approach to engineering. Ross built the list with the help of numerous engineer listserves. The list is reproduced here, with links to WSU's holdings to help you find them. Please feel free to add your own suggestions or make comments on those listed here!
Abbott, Edwin. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Anderson, Stanford. Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art
ASCE. Engineering History and Heritage
ASCE. Environmental and Water Resources History
Auyang, Sunny Y. Engineering-An Endless Frontier
Baldwin, Carliss. Design Rules
Billington, David. The Innovators
Bliss, Michael. The Discovery of Insulin
Blum, Harold. Times Arrow and Evolution
Burns, Ken. The Brooklyn Bridge (Video)
Chiles, James. Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology: An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen
Collins, Michael. Carrying the Fire
Cortright, Robert S. Bridging the World
Cringely, Robert X (director). Triumph of the Nerds (video)
Cringely, Robert. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date
Cross, Hardy. Engineers and Ivory Towers
Crouch, Tom. The Bishop’s Boys
Dalton, Stephen. Miracle of Flight
Darcy, Henry. Henry P. G. Darcy and Other Pioneers in Hydraulics
DeLony, Eric, ed. Landmark American Bridges
Dennis, Bernard G. American Civil Engineering History: The Pioneering Years
Donald Norman. The Psychology of Everyday Things
Downs, L. Vaughn. Mightiest of Them All: Memories of Grand Coulee Dam
Dreicer, Gregory K. Me, Myself and Infrastructure
Dunham, William. Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
Eyring, Henry. The Faith of a Scientist
- (This is not available at WSU- you can borrow it through InterLibrary Loan if you wish)
Florman,& Samuel C. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Florman, Samuel C. Civilized Engineer
Florman, Samuel C. The Introspective Engineer
Fredrich, Augustine J, ed. Sons of Martha
Gamow, George. One, Two, Three, ... Infinity
General Motors and American Heritage. Inventing America
- (This is not available at WSU- you can probably borrow it through Summit if you wish)
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science
Goleman, Daniel. Working with Emotional Intelligence
Goodman, Richard E. Karl Terzaghi: The Engineer as Artist
Gottemoeller, Frederick. Bridgescape: The Art of Designing Bridges
Halberstam, David. The Reckoning
Herrin, D. America Transformed: Engineering and Technology in the Nineteenth Century
Horowitz, Paul. Art of Electronics
Kelly, Fred. The Wright Brothers
Kennedy, Garfield. Why the Towers Fell (DVD format- WSU has VHS)
Kidder, Tracy. House
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine
Lacey, Robert. Ford, the Men and the Machine
Lindbergh, Charles. The Spirit of St. Louis
Macaulay, David. Building Big
McKee, Brian J. Historic American Covered Bridges
Miller, Benjamin. Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York --The Last Two Hundred Years.
Nelson, Lee H. The Colossus of 1812
Paulos John. A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Peddiwell, Abner. The Saber-Tooth Curriculum
Petroski, Henry. Design Paradigms
Petroski, Henry. Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America.
Petroski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are
Petroski, Henry. Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
Petroski, Henry. Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer
Petroski, Henry. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Petroski, Henry. Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering
Petroski, Henry. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Polya, G. How To Solve It
Rich, Ben & Janos, Leo. Skunk Works
Roberts, Royston. Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science
Sabbagh, Karl. 21st Century Jet (Video)
Sagan, Carl. Broca's Brain
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Schodek, Daniel L. Landmarks in American Civil Engineering
Scott, Richard. In the Wake of Tacoma: Suspension Bridges and the Quest for Aerodynamic Stability
Shepherd, Roger. Structures of our Time
Petroski, Henry. Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design
Stoll, Clifford. Cuckoo’s Egg
Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil
Sutherland, James. Historic Concrete
Watson, James D. The Double Helix
Watson, Thomas, Jr. Father, Son and Co.
Williams, Trevor I. The History of Invention
Womak James P. The Machine that Changed the World
Wright, Kenneth R. Machu Picchu: A Civil Engineering Marvel
Wright, Robert. Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in and Age of Information