World of Engineering

 World of Engineering: Historical Development, Challenges and Strategies in Modern Society, Baruch Karp (et al.), Samuel Neaman Institute, 2021

The field of engineering (which covers many sub-fields) has two important aspects: science and design & art. This book also looks at the history of engineering, along with engineering at the present time.

Th science part is pretty self-explanatory. The design & art part comprises competencies like decision-making, creativity, societal considerations, self-learning and teamwork.

This book explores the missions of engineers during the lifetime of a system, sub-specializations that cross disciplines and the engineering hierarchy. Failure is a part of life in the engineering world. Did just one part fail, or was the whole system a bad idea? It's also important to learn from past experience. The book also looks the history of engineering education, from before the Scientific Revolution to the present day.

Here is a very specialized book. For anyone involved in the engineering world, whether student or actual engineer, this book is well worth checking out. For the average reader, well, maybe not. This book gets 4.5 stars.