As in science, medicine, counseling, and many other fields, I think there are issues of temperament in this case, as well as knowledge - there is a kind of "calling" here. And, I think, a kind of "attitude".
A key part of engineering is a love of doing things, especially doing them right away and doing them well. Much of engineering arose out of βtinkeringβ (aka βhackingβ), adding to that the desire for βprincipled design and creationβ, βintegrityβ, etc. All the great engineers I know personally have deep moral convictions about what they do and why it "should be done the best it can be". Part of the superposition of temperament on science is a kind of "lab rat" that is happiest when it is aware of an experiment or the creation of a new experimental apparatus.
β the engineer who wrote , and they should be re-read to gain a basic knowledge and understanding of engineering in general.
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If we make a Venn diagram of the historical progression of "STEM", we get a partial duplication of "TEMS": "Tinkering" (manual labor), "Mechanical Engineering", "Mathematics" and "Science". Most modern practitioners get good results in all these areas, and most of the best things are at the intersection of them all. Great "do it" teams are made up of people who do a little bit of everything but are very good at one or two areas. I've had the most fun in my career working with great engineers, and I have a high school engineering background that helps a lot (although I'm erroneous in science and math).
As far as advice, it's not just about messing around with things and making them, and not just about being fluent in all TEMS, but finding internships and stuff where real things are made, especially heavy things. A lot can be learned by watching experts do their thing and doing things with them.
The big revelation for me was the "attitude" towards the ARPA community. The whole society is simply "accustomed to trusting its imagination and doing whatever is necessary to make the visions real." In such a culture, with such confidence and with such a track record, it is much easier for learners to learn.
Recently, I flew to Chita to tell schoolchildren how the idea came to me to launch a crowdsourcing satellite and build a jetpack, and in preparation for the speech, I threw out a list of references, but itβs not quite school, but still Iβll give it here:
- Heinrich Altshuller, "Invention Algorithm"
- Isaac Asimov, everything
- Robert Shackley everything
- Neil Stevenson, "Avalanche", "Diamond Age", "Cryptonomicon", "Anathem"
- Ivan Efremov, "The Hour of the Bull" and "The Andromeda Nebula"
- Vasily Golovachev, "Relic"
- Nick Gorkavy, "The Astrovitian"
- Boris Chertok, "Rockets and People"
- Ben Rich "Skunk Works" ()
- Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
- Paul Graham,Β«
- Richard Hamming,
- Mitchell Waldrop,Β«
Andrey Artishchev (CEO at Livemap, CEO at Posture Master):
Evgeny Bushkov
- Perelman "Entertaining tasks and experiments"
- Nosov "Dunno on the Moon"
- Strugatsky "Land of Crimson Clouds"
Anton Rogachev, aerospace laboratory of Moscow State University
- textbook on Pogorelov's geometry
- G.P. Shchedrovitsky
- Daniel Kahneman
Pavel Kulikov, teacher of project school GoTo
- Strugatsky, Interns
- Feynman, "Of course you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"
- Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- London, Martin Eden
Fedor Falkovsky, design school GoTo
- M.A. Shtremel "Engineer in the laboratory"
It seems that Avanta is praised, but he himself did not look:
Anatoly Shperkh, School of Engineering Thinking LNMO
- J. Gordon "Designs, or why things do not break"
Anonymus from hackspace
- Lectures by Professor Chainikov
- Encyclopedia of Professor Fortran
Ivan Moshkin, CEO at XNUMXD Printing Lab
- magazines "Samodelkin"
Ksenia Gnitko, information security specialist
- ME AND. Perelman "Entertaining tasks and experiments" (7 years)
- B. Green "Elegant Universe" (14 years old)
- magazine "Quantum"
Nikolay Abrosimov, Software Development Engineer at NWave
- McConnell "Perfect Code"
- classic K&R book
What would you recommend? What influenced your engineering worldview?
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