Engineering students in the past have found that the following books give an interesting insight into engineering. Please remember that these books are NOT required reading for the course – you don't have to buy any books before you come to Cambridge. We hope you enjoy reading from this selection.
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Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air This book is available as a free download from www.withouthotair.com/download.html |
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How Do Wings Work? Not a book but a paper published in the Institute of Physics journal Physics Education that is available as a free download from the Physics Education website |
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Sustainable Materials – With Both Eyes Open This book is available as a free download from http://withbotheyesopen.com/read.php |
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Engineering in Society An e-book published by the Royal Academy of Engineering that is available as a free (pdf) download from the RAEng website |
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Engineering: A Beginner's Guide |
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The New Science of Strong Materials – or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor |
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Structures – or Why Things Don't Fall Down |
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Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People |
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The Gecko's Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book |
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What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History |
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Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer |
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Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics |
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Invention by Design – How Engineers get from Thought to Thing |
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To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design |
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Remaking the World |
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Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design |
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Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering |
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Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering |
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Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design |
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The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems |
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Why Buildings Fall Down |
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Why Buildings Stand Up |
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The Science of Formula 1 Design |
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The Simple Science of Flight |
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Understanding Flight |
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Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century |
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Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart |
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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World |
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The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin |
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The Existential Pleasures of Engineering |
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Think Like An Engineer |
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How Things Work – The Physics of Everyday Life |
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Advanced Design and Technology |