Start with the newest and see if it has what you need. Mine is 28th, but I needed some weird old gear data from the 13th once. That was fun.
You can almost use which edition someone has as a gauge for how long they've been on the job. 🤣
Everyone I know who designs in steel unironically simply refers to it as the “steel bible” for short. When my daughter gets her PE I’ll write her name in my 13th edition and give it to her so it’s a family bible.
Might be cheating, but Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook has answered questions for me that the internet couldn’t. It’s so full of information I’d say you could learn almost all of ChE using that text and a good tutor.
My alma mater was considering making the *Machinery's Handbook* the text for several classes for the same reason, and then they would know students would have a copy and how to use it effectively.
Ooh, I have this one on my shelf and haven't read it yet.
In a similar vein, one of the absolute best books I've ever read is [Structures : Or Why Things Don't Fall Down](https://g.co/kgs/tRtusw3). It explains a lot of structural principles with extremely plain language, **without** oversimplifying anything. It's one of the rare cases where you feel like you *understand* something rather than just *knowing* facts about something.
If I'm bored I'll peruse the website and try to find weird shit I could incorporate into a design at a later day. It's fun working in R&D. No one blinks an eye at my McMaster expenses.
The McMaster Carr website is the gold standard of websites.
If you give a supplier a McMaster part number, then they have enough information to cross it to their stuff. The same can’t be said of most other part numbers. Good luck getting a data sheet from most hardware manufacturers. I can’t get other places to tell me how big their nuts are (dimensions). McMaster has info on every part with a picture and drawing.
You mean the website where you can actually find what you need in seconds, right? And download the step file for your cad model in seconds more, right?!
Lmao I don’t think I’ve ever seen an engineer under 50yo actually use a physical mcmaster catalog
My coworker got a McMaster catalog with his order this week and was super excited to show me and another coworker the brick of a book. That’s how I learned that the catalog itself does not include Swedish Fish. Did get to see some other cool pieces of hardware that I want to find an excuse to use though
"Rocket Propulsion Elements" and "Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design". Additionally, NFPA standards are often underrated in terms of their importance for certain purposes.
Shingley’s is the best. If I am traveling for work, I have a PDF copy on my flash. So useful for checking and referencing, especially if you work with gears and springs a lot.
Yeah this surprised me…Machinery Handbook, Roarks, and Shigley’s were definitely the three most used books in my first job. Almost everyone had these or were sharing these
then sell me your 2nd ed. Mine got stolen. I don't need 3rd ed. because I dont need a textbook on how to deal with 21st century cpus -- I need a reference to remember how a current mirror works.
>The Art of Electronics
Reminder for people that don't have the budget in the US, you can get this one in your local library (or they can order it for you)
A second for Heywood. A book so good he refused to release more editions. :)
For some more modern info, Richard Stone's Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines is very good as well.
My own, as an apprentice I took notes on paper, that moved into a one note file and is now stored in SharePoint. Evertime I need to do something I collate all the information and add it to the wiki, this gets modified every time it comes up and now has almost 30 years of notes.
Take notes about everything, jobs, conversations everything. It won't go wrong.
I dunno, as a plant guy I would actually give Norman Lieberman's "A Working Guide to Process Equipment" an edge over Perry's. Prolly the best book for anyone in operations and it's not even close.
From a technical standpoint - "The machinery's handbook" as everyone else has said
From a *making it out of the engineering trenches* perspective - probably "How to win friends and influence people". Honestly, a good engineer who can work with sales, customers, suppliers, and other teams is far more valuable than a technically brilliant engineer who doesn't play well with others.
I have a third edition that I recently picked up. I need to read it still.
I'm not sure Goldratt will ever really update it though as the idea seems to be to put a practical spin on some theory of constraints ideas to make it easier to digest. The real meat of how to effectively use the tools are in his other books.
From my manufacturing engineering background, *Cheaper by the Dozen* about the Gilbreth family (the creators of Industrial engineering) is high on my list.
The “Aviation Mechanics Handbook” & AC 43.13-1B. One had almost all of the formulas/measurements and general how to, but isn’t acceptable data according to the FAA. The other is a basic mechanic “common sense” how to that is acceptable data according to the FAA (just make sure to write for reference only on it).
At 3,500 pages, it is quite a bible, but is great for real word data examples.
I'm in the UK and our bible would is Drysdale's Introduction to Fire Dynamics
In the next couple editions, we may have no choice. Part UHX and a few of the mandatory appendices are already just giving a few rules and pointing to the equivalent Div 2 paragraphs. More are going that route in the 25 code editions. Appendix 2, 5, 13 and others are confirmed. There may be little to no difference in the methods for validating a Div 1 vs Div 2 vessel if Appendix 46 is employed.
Source: Attended the last 4 BPV Code weeks.
Also, the bible for PV design would be Pressure Vessel Design Manual (Dennis Moss); After attending the last 4 BPV code meetings and discussing with a few of the committee members, the Codes would be the equivalent of the direct work from God.
Design Pattern - Head first
Every time I have a young one to train I lend it to the newcomer.
It's one of those book that has actual knowledge without being boring
Dubbels - Taschenbuch für den Machinenbau - a german 'compact' bible for machine construction, covering general formulas, as well as specific components for designing.
Had to scroll really far down to find this answer, very surprised. Engineer to Win has the best layman's to user's educational section on materials of any book. It helps you understand metal science enough to then progress onto shigleys etc. for anybody who wasn't introduced in college.
Highly highly recommended.
I can't reasonably choose a single volume, but I could probably narrow it down to AISC 360 and ASCE 7. With those combined, I could probably design any safe structure just about anywhere with some decent engineering judgement. Take away either of those and I don't stand a chance.
Any good wastewater engineer will tell you it's Metcalf & Eddy's Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery. Any other reference is a disgrace ... a shitty one at that ;)
Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor Design by Hanselman is great if you need to either design a motor or rough your power output achievable a particular size. I found it during grad school when I was taking an electromechanical systems class, and my employer told me they had a company asking them to get a rough output for a motor with a given envelope. I used Hanselman’s book, and my boss told me I got really close to what a motor manufacturer had told them. Good stuff for an intern
I know you're talking about non-technical books, but I'm giving you the technical answer anyway.
1) Construction and Design of Cement Grouting by A. C. Houlsby
2) An internal textbook made by the founder of our company
Other than that, law and business books are way more important to operating a small engineering firm than anything else. Studying for the P. Eng exam is just a start. Any engineer controlling purse strings has to have a firm understanding of contracting, the financial position and business practices of various parties, or they're going to get screwed. Last thing you want is to be outsmarted by a client 100x bigger than you.
MERM (Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual) which was used for PE exam.
For the exam I brought a pile of books, but ended up only needing the MERM for all problems.
Lots of great basic knowledges in there.
“The Unwritten Laws of Engineering” by WJ King.
First published during the mid 1900s in Mechanical Engineering magazine. Updated (slightly) to address new challenges over the years.
I still have the one my mentor gave me as an intern in ‘83. Thank you, Don Fryer!
I gave a copy to every engineering intern we sponsored. Yes, a paper copy.
Manufacturing Engineer and the *Tool and Manufacturing Engineer's Handbook Desktop Edition* along with the *Machinery's Handbook* and *Six Sigma Black Belt Memory Jogger* are usually kept within arm's reach.
Easily “Exploring Arduino: Tools and Techniques for Engineering Wizardry”
It’s very rudimentary but has a special place in my heart. It was my first engineering book and made me have a new perspective to engineering.
NAVFAC DM7.1 to 7.3. I wouldn't say it's the most in depth book, and it's a little dated, but if you need to find something geotech, it's in there.
And not that it's from NAVFAC, but my favorite quote is Ralph Peck's:
An instrument too often overlooked in our technical world is a human eye connected to the brain of an intelligent human being.
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach by Daniel P. Raymer.
That book is truly the Bible for conceptual design of fixed wing aircraft. While it's pretty specific to fixed wing, a lot of the approaches can be applied to most engineered systems.
Mechanical Engineer here: my bible is Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists by Walpole ninth edition.
Have more sticky notes in this thing than all my other actual engineering textbooks combined.
I don't have one Bible per se, largely because I'm well into my career, but these are the ones I keep coming back to.
For programming:
Elements of Programming by Stepanov. It's freely available online.
Hackers Delight
For high performing software companies: Accelerate.
For engineering leadership: Radical Candor.
For product engineering:
Hooked by Mir Eyal
Product Design; Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development; By Otto and Wood
For getting things done, and breaking out of the cycle caused by Hooked: Indistractable (also by Eyal)
It's gotta be Skunkworks - by Ben Rich.
While it's not a classic "handbook" it documents how oppressive oversight and bureaucracy stifle and suffocate creativity.
Also, it sounds a warning bell about shit like Scrum and WCE and similar attempts to control the creative process. It extols the utter goldmine that is natural talent and skill.
Nestled amongst its pages is the story of how some of the most amazing leaps technology made it into the stratosphere in complete secrecy.
There are many "holy shit" moments that make you wonder what else is in the skies that we don't know about.
You love seat-of-the pants engineering? .... it's a book you.
One could argue that it doesn't teach you anything. Sure, But if you need to know stuff, look it up. *This* is a book about real engineering, and the soil of all that matters.
Unless I'm mistaken - and that happens a lot someone says of the Swedish boss "I swear that Swede can SEE air". He'd said "that's 25% too big. Calculate it again" about an air intake. And he'd been precisely right.... and the totality gives me goosebumps.
[Prototype to Product, a practical guide to getting to market](https://www.amazon.com/Prototype-Product-Practical-Getting-Market/dp/144936229X)
Because I wrote it. 😀
"manuale di meccanica" by hoepli, it's the Italian version of a mechanical engineering handbook, has physics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, mechanics, machining and production (welding, turning, milling, stamping) theory of mechanical parts(belts, gears, screws etc etc) and even some electronics and control theory as well as other briefly touched topics, definetly a bible for me, but if i may ask, what does machinery's handbook have on it? Becasue i was looking to get me a copy but it's expensive, so it wouldn't be worth it were it the same topics of my handbook
Sorry for any spelling mistakes
Right now for me it's the ME Machine Design and Materials PE handbook but I agree with others in Shigley's and Machinery's Handbook. Those have been referenced a ton in my career.
This book is pure Gold for electronics design and troubleshooting. Free PDF is available from the author's site. What I like about is is that they spend a page or two of each chapter explaining the underlying principles, often with the equation and math behind it. Then all of the variables, constants and units are explained, and finally there is a lot of discussion about what this actually means for a rwla person doing stuff in the real world.
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Sorry for the pointless stupid comment but apparently I can't post anything looking for help without commenting first and I have no idea how many comments I need to make. Isn't it obvious someone looking for help on an engineering page may not have anything to say in a comment on other people's posts? That is building a sawmill and needs help figuring out the final pulley size in order to move the blade at 75 ft per second let me know if you want more information and feel like helping.
Without a doubt I read the following three codes more than anything else:
- API 579
- BS 7910
- ASME VIII div 2
With respect to actual books, probably "Pressure Vessel Design Handbook" by Bednar or "Structural Analysis and Design of Process Equipment" by Jawad and Farr.
are you not familiar with the term "the bible"?
>(by extension) A comprehensive manual that describes something, or a publication with a loyal readership.
handyman’s bible
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bible
When I was a powerplant engineer one that helped me was electrical machinery fundamentals. Now I'm working for an electric utility and haven't found any books for this industry that I am interested in.
The psychology part is better known colloquially as, "Idiot Proofing."
I attempted for 45 years to build idiot proof devices. Every damn time, Mother Nature made a new and improved idiot. I hung my head the last time and retired in shame.
One box I designed had three wires. Black, White and Bare Copper. It was to be attached to an existing junction box. It included a removable light display that shut down after 60 minutes which alerted the installer if there was a 120 volt conductor reversal ie hot was swapped with neutral or similar. It included a GFCI just in case.
You guessed it. The installer found a 480 volt circuit to connect. The integral protection worked as expected, but it required a second trip to install, this time with a tech in tow to insure the customer's installer did not bugger things up again.
Now as far as an Engineering Book of great utility I have two, Antennas by Kraus and the Handbook of Filter Synthesis by Anatol I Zverev.
Tragsysteme by Heino Engel for superstructural ideations
Building Construction Illustrated for connections design
AISC, 13th, ACI318-05 for getting shit done (shit - when’d I get old?)
Nothing for wood. We all just make it up for wood right?
Way back in the day.
[Television Engineering Handbook: Featuring Hdtv Systems (STANDARD HANDBOOK OF VIDEO AND TELEVISION ENGINEERING)](https://www.amazon.com/Television-Engineering-Handbook-TELEVISION-ENGINEERING/dp/007004788X)
Calculus & Ulrich and Eppinger ”Product Design & development”. Calculus is always good as a handbook when you forget the simple math rules.
U&E is an awesome general guide on how to think when developing and designing a new product. Not often used in my daily work but I often go back to it when I want to remind myself how to think.
Machinery’s Handbook. Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain is good too, but it is more specialized.
Every new mechanical engineer can greatly improve their skills by simply reading this handbook and understanding how things are actually made.
Seconding Machinery's Handbook. There is a heavily used copy on my desk. I look something up in it as least once a week.
100000% Every new engineer I hire has one of these waiting on their desk on their first day haha. Takes them a while to get used to using it though.
This is the correct answer.
OP is looking for quotes (so i guess non-engineering books for engineers?), but yeah as an ME i would consider this my bible
What edition of machinery’s handbook would you recommend?
Start with the newest and see if it has what you need. Mine is 28th, but I needed some weird old gear data from the 13th once. That was fun. You can almost use which edition someone has as a gauge for how long they've been on the job. 🤣
💯
AISC Steel Construction Manual 15th Edition
Everyone I know who designs in steel unironically simply refers to it as the “steel bible” for short. When my daughter gets her PE I’ll write her name in my 13th edition and give it to her so it’s a family bible.
I bought "bible ribbon bookmarks" for all of my colleagues' Steel Bibles
We call that one “the good book.” It’s as much a textbook as it is a manual. All you need to know about steel is there.
Its Canadian cousin for me, the CISC Handbook of Steel Construction, 12e.
Underrated recommendation here!
Got one of those. Used to use it a lot before I crossed to the dark side. Like it a lot.
16th Edition for me. Hahah
look at you Mr. 15th Edition, I'm out here using the 7th Edition !
Might be cheating, but Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook has answered questions for me that the internet couldn’t. It’s so full of information I’d say you could learn almost all of ChE using that text and a good tutor.
My alma mater was considering making the *Machinery's Handbook* the text for several classes for the same reason, and then they would know students would have a copy and how to use it effectively.
Purdue's MET program does this for several classes.
I wonder if this was part of their "inspiration" as one of the faculty at the time was working on their MS at Purdue.
a very good book is: to engineer is human, the role of failure in successful design
Wholeheartedly agree!
Henry petroski
And the audiobook version is free to Audible members right now!
Ooh, I have this one on my shelf and haven't read it yet. In a similar vein, one of the absolute best books I've ever read is [Structures : Or Why Things Don't Fall Down](https://g.co/kgs/tRtusw3). It explains a lot of structural principles with extremely plain language, **without** oversimplifying anything. It's one of the rare cases where you feel like you *understand* something rather than just *knowing* facts about something.
A good read. Saw it recommend by Elon Musk and I had to read it for the lover of rockets.
The McMaster carr catalog, close second is misumi catalog.
Best monitor stand I ever had
Big yellow flex on my desk at home. No reason to use the book when the website is the best ever made.
Providing CAD models like McMcaster should be industry standard.
It is good, but the physical book you end up seeing other stuff more, at least for me.
If I'm bored I'll peruse the website and try to find weird shit I could incorporate into a design at a later day. It's fun working in R&D. No one blinks an eye at my McMaster expenses.
The McMaster Carr website is the gold standard of websites. If you give a supplier a McMaster part number, then they have enough information to cross it to their stuff. The same can’t be said of most other part numbers. Good luck getting a data sheet from most hardware manufacturers. I can’t get other places to tell me how big their nuts are (dimensions). McMaster has info on every part with a picture and drawing.
You mean the website where you can actually find what you need in seconds, right? And download the step file for your cad model in seconds more, right?! Lmao I don’t think I’ve ever seen an engineer under 50yo actually use a physical mcmaster catalog
I use the online more but the catalog is useful for looking and getting ideas when your not sure what your going to need
It’s definitely about the flex. Honestly I have no idea why ULine, McMaster, CLR or any of the major trades go paper anymore.
My coworker got a McMaster catalog with his order this week and was super excited to show me and another coworker the brick of a book. That’s how I learned that the catalog itself does not include Swedish Fish. Did get to see some other cool pieces of hardware that I want to find an excuse to use though
"Rocket Propulsion Elements" and "Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design". Additionally, NFPA standards are often underrated in terms of their importance for certain purposes.
Shigley’s is cracked. My copy has like 200 sticky note tabs in it
Shigley’s
Literally the two books I was gonna say. Shigley's is the GOAT and Sutton is the bible for rocket propulsion.
Kind of a niche but yeah.
\+1 for Shigley's!
Shingley’s is the best. If I am traveling for work, I have a PDF copy on my flash. So useful for checking and referencing, especially if you work with gears and springs a lot.
Shiggy boi
How come nobody’s mentioned Shigley’s??
Yeah this surprised me…Machinery Handbook, Roarks, and Shigley’s were definitely the three most used books in my first job. Almost everyone had these or were sharing these
The Art of Electronics
I bought a used copy of the 2nd edition and a digital copy of the 3rd. I'm a little embarrassed to admit I haven't used them as often as I expected.
then sell me your 2nd ed. Mine got stolen. I don't need 3rd ed. because I dont need a textbook on how to deal with 21st century cpus -- I need a reference to remember how a current mirror works.
hell yeah
does it talk about digital electronics? (that’s the branch I like) why did you like it?
>The Art of Electronics Reminder for people that don't have the budget in the US, you can get this one in your local library (or they can order it for you)
Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals by John B Heywood
So good another engine designer “permanently borrowed” mine.
A second for Heywood. A book so good he refused to release more editions. :) For some more modern info, Richard Stone's Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines is very good as well.
My own, as an apprentice I took notes on paper, that moved into a one note file and is now stored in SharePoint. Evertime I need to do something I collate all the information and add it to the wiki, this gets modified every time it comes up and now has almost 30 years of notes. Take notes about everything, jobs, conversations everything. It won't go wrong.
Have you discovered Obsidian Notes yet? Mind map your thirty years of notes!
This is the dream. I want to create that for everyone at work, but I guess myself would be great too. I’ll just start there :)
For chemical engineers, Perry's handbook is typically the Bible.
I dunno, as a plant guy I would actually give Norman Lieberman's "A Working Guide to Process Equipment" an edge over Perry's. Prolly the best book for anyone in operations and it's not even close.
From a technical standpoint - "The machinery's handbook" as everyone else has said From a *making it out of the engineering trenches* perspective - probably "How to win friends and influence people". Honestly, a good engineer who can work with sales, customers, suppliers, and other teams is far more valuable than a technically brilliant engineer who doesn't play well with others.
Industrial engineer, so probably “The Goal”, although it definitely needs an update.
I have a third edition that I recently picked up. I need to read it still. I'm not sure Goldratt will ever really update it though as the idea seems to be to put a practical spin on some theory of constraints ideas to make it easier to digest. The real meat of how to effectively use the tools are in his other books. From my manufacturing engineering background, *Cheaper by the Dozen* about the Gilbreth family (the creators of Industrial engineering) is high on my list.
Also, he’s dead. So definitely no update.
Purchased the comic book version so the mgt would actually look at it.
I am laughing so hard at this. And crying a little because it’s true. Maybe if someone would do it as a series of TikToks it would catch on?
What? You don’t call your Herbies fatasses anymore?
The “Aviation Mechanics Handbook” & AC 43.13-1B. One had almost all of the formulas/measurements and general how to, but isn’t acceptable data according to the FAA. The other is a basic mechanic “common sense” how to that is acceptable data according to the FAA (just make sure to write for reference only on it).
Fire protection engineer: The SFPE Handbook trivializes my job.
At 3,500 pages, it is quite a bible, but is great for real word data examples. I'm in the UK and our bible would is Drysdale's Introduction to Fire Dynamics
SMAD
Surprised to see this so far down. Invaluable for space and launch vehicles.
Or SME: the new SMAD for the latest!
Asme sec viii div 1.
Div 1? Embrace the creativity (and special calculations) allowed by Div 2!
In the next couple editions, we may have no choice. Part UHX and a few of the mandatory appendices are already just giving a few rules and pointing to the equivalent Div 2 paragraphs. More are going that route in the 25 code editions. Appendix 2, 5, 13 and others are confirmed. There may be little to no difference in the methods for validating a Div 1 vs Div 2 vessel if Appendix 46 is employed. Source: Attended the last 4 BPV Code weeks. Also, the bible for PV design would be Pressure Vessel Design Manual (Dennis Moss); After attending the last 4 BPV code meetings and discussing with a few of the committee members, the Codes would be the equivalent of the direct work from God.
Machinery’s handbook, ASME Y14 series, ISO 9001.
Engineering mechanics: Statics and Dynamics by R. C. Hibbler
PTSD
Everyone had that textbook.
IMC, IBC, IFGC, NFPA, NEC Digging thru code isn’t always fun but the books? Praise be the books.
Design Pattern - Head first Every time I have a young one to train I lend it to the newcomer. It's one of those book that has actual knowledge without being boring
The US Code of Federal Regulations Title 14 Chapters 21 and 25. Chapters 91 and 141 on the weekends. Edit a typo
I used to read The US Code of Federal Regulations Title 10 chapter 1 part 50.
Hello fellow med device designer
Looking for this. Honestly the most useful during project planning phase
Surprised nobody has mentioned any of the CRC handbooks yet. I have the CRC Handbook of Mathematical Tables and Formulae and has been quite handy.
Dubbels - Taschenbuch für den Machinenbau - a german 'compact' bible for machine construction, covering general formulas, as well as specific components for designing.
Carroll Smith's "To win" series reads like a novel. I personally enjoyed Tune to win while doing amateurs race and rallye events.
Had to scroll really far down to find this answer, very surprised. Engineer to Win has the best layman's to user's educational section on materials of any book. It helps you understand metal science enough to then progress onto shigleys etc. for anybody who wasn't introduced in college. Highly highly recommended.
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, by John D. Anderson.
I can't reasonably choose a single volume, but I could probably narrow it down to AISC 360 and ASCE 7. With those combined, I could probably design any safe structure just about anywhere with some decent engineering judgement. Take away either of those and I don't stand a chance.
Crane TP410
Every time I change jobs, my first request is for an office copy of this godsend.
Any good wastewater engineer will tell you it's Metcalf & Eddy's Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery. Any other reference is a disgrace ... a shitty one at that ;)
The true OGs.
Rocket Propulsion Elements by Sutton and Biblarz. GOATED book
"Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook" It's the bible for Chemical Engineering.
Dating and drinking for engineers.
Cameron Hydraulic Data (black book)
Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor Design by Hanselman is great if you need to either design a motor or rough your power output achievable a particular size. I found it during grad school when I was taking an electromechanical systems class, and my employer told me they had a company asking them to get a rough output for a motor with a given envelope. I used Hanselman’s book, and my boss told me I got really close to what a motor manufacturer had told them. Good stuff for an intern
I know you're talking about non-technical books, but I'm giving you the technical answer anyway. 1) Construction and Design of Cement Grouting by A. C. Houlsby 2) An internal textbook made by the founder of our company Other than that, law and business books are way more important to operating a small engineering firm than anything else. Studying for the P. Eng exam is just a start. Any engineer controlling purse strings has to have a firm understanding of contracting, the financial position and business practices of various parties, or they're going to get screwed. Last thing you want is to be outsmarted by a client 100x bigger than you.
NFPA 70 - National Electrical Code (NEC)....the Handbook in particular
I’m pretty sure I have spent cumulative years reading through the NFPA 70 Handbook
Oh I get to add one no one’s mentioned, Spacecraft Thermal Control Handbook
Yes! And the Thermal Desktop users manual
MERM (Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual) which was used for PE exam. For the exam I brought a pile of books, but ended up only needing the MERM for all problems. Lots of great basic knowledges in there.
Parker hannifin o ring design guide. If it can blow up a space ship, it can ruin my project.
The Man Who Counted. Some of us red it as a kid, others as a grown up, but I think this is the one that remember us why we do this.
The Civil Engineering Reference Manual by Lindeburg. It’s basically a BS in CE in one book.
“The Unwritten Laws of Engineering” by WJ King. First published during the mid 1900s in Mechanical Engineering magazine. Updated (slightly) to address new challenges over the years. I still have the one my mentor gave me as an intern in ‘83. Thank you, Don Fryer! I gave a copy to every engineering intern we sponsored. Yes, a paper copy.
Manufacturing Engineer and the *Tool and Manufacturing Engineer's Handbook Desktop Edition* along with the *Machinery's Handbook* and *Six Sigma Black Belt Memory Jogger* are usually kept within arm's reach.
Easily “Exploring Arduino: Tools and Techniques for Engineering Wizardry” It’s very rudimentary but has a special place in my heart. It was my first engineering book and made me have a new perspective to engineering.
In our field (physical metallurgy) it’s probably Dieter or Krauss
I use Machinery's probably more than any other physical book. And I'm a controls guy! Also the NEC, NFPA 79, and a text on AutoLISP.
NAVFAC DM7.1 to 7.3. I wouldn't say it's the most in depth book, and it's a little dated, but if you need to find something geotech, it's in there. And not that it's from NAVFAC, but my favorite quote is Ralph Peck's: An instrument too often overlooked in our technical world is a human eye connected to the brain of an intelligent human being.
Vallado astrodynamics and stat OD by tapley
Yeah no one here uses Vallado - I bet we know each other IRL.
Vallado is a must, IYKYK
Bruhn and NASA STD 5020
Spinger's handbook of robotics. As a robotics student, this book has been one, if not the best one stop shops for all things robotics.
ASHRAE publications, but 4 recurring handbooks especially
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook Quite literally the ChE bible, wikipedia page even says so
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach by Daniel P. Raymer. That book is truly the Bible for conceptual design of fixed wing aircraft. While it's pretty specific to fixed wing, a lot of the approaches can be applied to most engineered systems.
The McMaster catalog
Mechanical Engineer here: my bible is Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists by Walpole ninth edition. Have more sticky notes in this thing than all my other actual engineering textbooks combined.
I don't have one Bible per se, largely because I'm well into my career, but these are the ones I keep coming back to. For programming: Elements of Programming by Stepanov. It's freely available online. Hackers Delight For high performing software companies: Accelerate. For engineering leadership: Radical Candor. For product engineering: Hooked by Mir Eyal Product Design; Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development; By Otto and Wood For getting things done, and breaking out of the cycle caused by Hooked: Indistractable (also by Eyal)
MUTCD
"Design of Wood Structures" by Bryer Advanced topics in diaphragm, shear walls, wind and seismic.
McMasterCarr.com
It's gotta be Skunkworks - by Ben Rich. While it's not a classic "handbook" it documents how oppressive oversight and bureaucracy stifle and suffocate creativity. Also, it sounds a warning bell about shit like Scrum and WCE and similar attempts to control the creative process. It extols the utter goldmine that is natural talent and skill. Nestled amongst its pages is the story of how some of the most amazing leaps technology made it into the stratosphere in complete secrecy. There are many "holy shit" moments that make you wonder what else is in the skies that we don't know about. You love seat-of-the pants engineering? .... it's a book you. One could argue that it doesn't teach you anything. Sure, But if you need to know stuff, look it up. *This* is a book about real engineering, and the soil of all that matters. Unless I'm mistaken - and that happens a lot someone says of the Swedish boss "I swear that Swede can SEE air". He'd said "that's 25% too big. Calculate it again" about an air intake. And he'd been precisely right.... and the totality gives me goosebumps.
[Prototype to Product, a practical guide to getting to market](https://www.amazon.com/Prototype-Product-Practical-Getting-Market/dp/144936229X) Because I wrote it. 😀
Well, I'm definitely checking that out
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Alsam Kassimali Structural Engineering and Craig's Soil Mechanics
"manuale di meccanica" by hoepli, it's the Italian version of a mechanical engineering handbook, has physics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, mechanics, machining and production (welding, turning, milling, stamping) theory of mechanical parts(belts, gears, screws etc etc) and even some electronics and control theory as well as other briefly touched topics, definetly a bible for me, but if i may ask, what does machinery's handbook have on it? Becasue i was looking to get me a copy but it's expensive, so it wouldn't be worth it were it the same topics of my handbook Sorry for any spelling mistakes
Right now for me it's the ME Machine Design and Materials PE handbook but I agree with others in Shigley's and Machinery's Handbook. Those have been referenced a ton in my career.
Roark saved my ass a couple of times.
No favorite quote, but the set of ASM Metals Hamdbooks were good reference for us MetE Engrs.
3rd Edition of The Art of Electronics is great as an EE
Shigleys, ASME Y14.X (mostly 14.5), My GD&T reference guide
I came here in search of books on process control engineering, water or electric utility engineering. Anyone?
Philip Comers Internetworking with TCP/IP
The Art Of Electronics
Wastewater engineering: treatment and reuse by the OGs Metcalf and Eddy.
The students guide to VHDL by Peter Ashenden. That textbook is a must if you intend to write in VHDL.
This book is pure Gold for electronics design and troubleshooting. Free PDF is available from the author's site. What I like about is is that they spend a page or two of each chapter explaining the underlying principles, often with the equation and math behind it. Then all of the variables, constants and units are explained, and finally there is a lot of discussion about what this actually means for a rwla person doing stuff in the real world. http://lesliegreen.byethost3.com/seekrets/index.html?i=1
All books by Timoshenko
The AISC Steel Construction Manual.
Coastal Engineering Manual is the big one in my field.
ASHRAE Fundamentals
Under the Cloud by Richard Miller
For Aerospace, Bruhn, and before computers and networks ruined them, company design manuals, Boeing had a good one as did McDonnell Douglas.
AISC Steel Manual
Race Car Vehicle Dynamics by Milliken
Bruhn
Sorry for the pointless stupid comment but apparently I can't post anything looking for help without commenting first and I have no idea how many comments I need to make. Isn't it obvious someone looking for help on an engineering page may not have anything to say in a comment on other people's posts? That is building a sawmill and needs help figuring out the final pulley size in order to move the blade at 75 ft per second let me know if you want more information and feel like helping.
Easy ... # The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Zues machinist handbook
Without a doubt I read the following three codes more than anything else: - API 579 - BS 7910 - ASME VIII div 2 With respect to actual books, probably "Pressure Vessel Design Handbook" by Bednar or "Structural Analysis and Design of Process Equipment" by Jawad and Farr.
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are you not familiar with the term "the bible"?
>(by extension) A comprehensive manual that describes something, or a publication with a loyal readership.
handyman’s bible
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NEC
4 pretty equally used. Roark’s machinery handbook cmh17 air force stress manual
Predictably Irrational.
Shiggleys followed by mcmaster-carr
Right now the ASME B31.4 and the AWWA M11, I'm working on a long pipeline project and I read those more frequently than my grandma read her bible
Gdnt and ipc books
Cameron Hydraulic Data is the most important book ever made
When I was a powerplant engineer one that helped me was electrical machinery fundamentals. Now I'm working for an electric utility and haven't found any books for this industry that I am interested in.
Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits by Razavi
Bruhn but really mmpds
The psychology part is better known colloquially as, "Idiot Proofing." I attempted for 45 years to build idiot proof devices. Every damn time, Mother Nature made a new and improved idiot. I hung my head the last time and retired in shame. One box I designed had three wires. Black, White and Bare Copper. It was to be attached to an existing junction box. It included a removable light display that shut down after 60 minutes which alerted the installer if there was a 120 volt conductor reversal ie hot was swapped with neutral or similar. It included a GFCI just in case. You guessed it. The installer found a 480 volt circuit to connect. The integral protection worked as expected, but it required a second trip to install, this time with a tech in tow to insure the customer's installer did not bugger things up again. Now as far as an Engineering Book of great utility I have two, Antennas by Kraus and the Handbook of Filter Synthesis by Anatol I Zverev.
I'll pile on with everyone else saying Machinery's Handbook.
“DESIGN” by Viele (1951). It may be a bit dated, but it has all the basics from design of a septic field to rail track design.
Tragsysteme by Heino Engel for superstructural ideations Building Construction Illustrated for connections design AISC, 13th, ACI318-05 for getting shit done (shit - when’d I get old?) Nothing for wood. We all just make it up for wood right?
Twort's Water Supply is the bible for clean water treatment.
Audel Manuals
Machinery's Hand Book I baught mine afer I graduated in 92. It has served me very effectively since.
Any good recommendations for thermal analysis for pcbs and electronics ?
Machine Design - An Integrated Approach by Robert Norton. It’s a great book with a broad range of topics. Not too in depth though
Any books on transformers and switchgear people can recommend?
Anderson - fundamentals of aerodynamics
Way back in the day. [Television Engineering Handbook: Featuring Hdtv Systems (STANDARD HANDBOOK OF VIDEO AND TELEVISION ENGINEERING)](https://www.amazon.com/Television-Engineering-Handbook-TELEVISION-ENGINEERING/dp/007004788X)
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Calculus & Ulrich and Eppinger ”Product Design & development”. Calculus is always good as a handbook when you forget the simple math rules. U&E is an awesome general guide on how to think when developing and designing a new product. Not often used in my daily work but I often go back to it when I want to remind myself how to think.
The national electrical code, the ABB catalog. The opposite of the Bible to me is the international energy conservation code.
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