Best engineering design books according to redditors

Further reading/research: (Not all of which I've gotten to read yet. Some of which may be quite tangentially relevant to the discussion at hand along with the books and sites I mentioned above. Consider this more a list of books pertaining to the history of technology, machining, metrology, some general science and good engineering texts.)

Dan Gelbart's Youtube Channel

Engineerguy's Youtube Channel

Nick Mueller's Youtube Channel

mrpete222/tubalcain's youtube channel

Tom Lipton (oxtools) Youtube Channel

Suburban Tool's Youtube Channel

NYCNC's Youtube Channel

Computer History Museum's Youtube Channel

History of Machine Tools, 1700-1910 by Steeds

Studies in the History of Machine Tools by Woodbury

A History of Machine Tools by Bradley

Tools for the Job: A History of Machine Tools to 1950 by The Science Museum

A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume

Tools and Machines by Barnard

The Testing of Machine Tools by Burley

Modern machine shop tools, their construction, operation and manipulation, including both hand and machine tools: a book of practical instruction by Humphrey & Dervoort

Machine-Shop Tools and Methods by Leonard

A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement by Whitelaw

Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications by Yoshizawa

Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Gray

Machine Shop Training Course Vol 1 & 2 by Jones

A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982

Numerical Control: Making a New Technology by Reintjes

History of Strength of Materials by Timoshenko

Rust: The Longest War by Waldman

The Companion Reference Book on Dial and Test Indicators: Based on our popular website www.longislandindicator.com by Meyer

Optical Shop Testing by Malacara

Lost Moon: The Preilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Lovell and Kruger

Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Johnson & Smith

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Rich & Janos

Unwritten Laws of Engineering by King

Advanced Machine Work by Smith

Accurate Tool Work by Goodrich

Optical Tooling, for Precise Manufacture and Alignment by Kissam

The Martian: A Novel by Weir

Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Young Budynas & Sadegh

Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby

Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer by Shute

Cosmos by Sagan

Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook by Smith Carol Smith wrote a number of other great books such as Engineer to Win.

Tool & Cutter Sharpening by Hall

Handbook of Machine Tool Analysis by Marinescu, Ispas & Boboc

The Intel Trinity by Malone

Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Thompson

A Handbook on Tool Room Grinding

Tolerance Design: A Handbook for Developing Optimal Specifications by Creveling

Inspection and Gaging by Kennedy

Precision Engineering by Evans

Procedures in Experimental Physics by Strong

Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes or How They Did it in the 1870's by Dick

Flextures: Elements of Elastic Mechanisms by Smith

Precision Engineering by Venkatesh & Izman

Metal Cutting Theory and Practice by Stephenson & Agapiou

American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910 by Cope As mentioned in the above post, Kennth Cope did a series of books on early machine tool builders. This is one of them.

Shop Theory by Henry Ford Trade Shop

Learning the lost Art of Hand Scraping: From Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks A small collection of articles combined in one small book. Lindsay Publications was a smallish company that would collect, reprint or combine public domain source material related to machining and sell them at reasonable prices. They retired a few years ago and sold what rights and materials they had to another company.

How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet by Bryant & Sangwin

Machining & CNC Technology by Fitzpatrick

CNC Programming Handbook by Smid

Machine Shop Practice Vol 1 & 2 by Moltrecht

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles A fantastic book with tons of free online material, labs, and courses built around it. This book could take a 6th grader interested in learning, and teach them the fundamentals from scratch to design a basic computer processor and programming a simple OS etc.

Bosch Automotive Handbook by Bosch

Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots by Biagiotti & Melchiorri

The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals by Zhu, Zienkiewicz and Taylor

Practical Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines by Brown & Sharpe

Grinding Technology by Krar & Oswold

Principles of Precision Engineering by Nakazawa & Takeguchi

Foundations of Ultra-Precision Mechanism Design by Smith

I.C.S. Reference Library, Volume 50: Working Chilled Iron, Planer Work, Shaper and Slotter Work, Drilling and Boring, Milling-Machine Work, Gear Calculations, Gear Cutting

I. C. S. Reference Library, Volume 51: Grinding, Bench, Vise, and Floor Work, Erecting, Shop Hints, Toolmaking, Gauges and Gauge Making, Dies and Die Making, Jigs and Jig Making
and many more ICS books on various engineering, technical and non-technical topics.

American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book of Machine-Shop and Drawing-Room Data, Methods and Definitions, Seventh Edition by Colvin & Stanley

Modern Metal Cutting: A Practical Handbook by Sandvik

Mechanical Behavior of Materials by Dowling

Engineering Design by Dieter and Schmidt

[Creative Design of Products and Systems by Saeed]()

English and American Tool Builders by Roe

Machine Design by Norton

Control Systems by Nise

That doesn't include some random books I've found when traveling and visiting used book stores. :)

I bought this book for a dollar at a library sale. Find it and you'll have every engineering idea you could want for solar-collectors and solar-passive heating setups. This is an excellent engineering/academic treatise on everything from efficiency to expected power output. I wouldn't pay $190 for it though, do some looking around and you can get it cheap.

Here's the ISBN: 0-07-035473-1

Statics and dynamics by beer etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Vector-Mechanics-Engineers-Statics-Dynamics/dp/0073398136/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426107608&sr=1-5

mechanics of materials also by beer etc
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Materials-Ferdinand-Beer/dp/0073380288/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426107608&sr=1-2

Shigleys mechanical engineering design
http://www.amazon.com/Shigleys-Mechanical-Engineering-Design-McGraw-Hill/dp/0073529281/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426107693&sr=1-2&keywords=shigleys

fluid mechanics by white
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Student-McGraw-Hill-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/0077422414/ref=pd_sim_b_45?ie=UTF8&refRID=1598FBBBQ7NSWR5MKF90

Heat and mass transfer
http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Mass-Transfer-Fundamentals-Applications/dp/0077366646/ref=pd_sim_b_64?ie=UTF8&refRID=0QG596EKX9F6S2T3F32G

Thermo
http://www.amazon.com/Thermodynamics-Engineering-Approach-Student-Resources/dp/0077366743/ref=pd_sim_b_86?ie=UTF8&refRID=0NW57Y2JVW3AGSH3R3ZP

kinematics
http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Resource-McGraw-Hill-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/007742171X/ref=pd_sim_b_31?ie=UTF8&refRID=09FEZCGH0P7QAK3KFHR1

Vibrations
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Vibrations-5th-Edition-Singiresu/dp/0132128195/ref=pd_sim_b_79?ie=UTF8&refRID=16QXABYHM8AZS8AEYQ2M

these were at least some of the books my school used. I also hated most of these books.

>Alternative Solids Removal for Warm Water Recirculating Raft Aquaponic Systems.pdf

TLDR: They use way too many words comparing clarifiers and swirl separators. They find no difference.

>Hydroponics A Practical Guide for the Soilless Grower 2e 2005.pdf
>Fish Disease Diagnosis And Treatment - 2nd Ed. Edward Noga

That's $200 in paper right there. Thank you!

>anaerobic digesters!!

Also called, "Methane fermentation process as anaerobic digestion of biomass." I hope you like organic chemistry.

>How to Make a Bell Siphon

Very nice. Thorough testing of a variety of set sizes of bell siphon along with building instructions. Very simple and very inexpensive.

>Ch 14 Aquaponics

A chapter from this book, written by Dr. Rakocy. Looks like an exact copy of Pub 454. Ton of easy to read info along with very nice rules of thumb.

>why africa can feed itself

I had no idea agriculture was experiencing such a boom in Africa.

>Biofloc Technology (BFT)

Not very applicable to AP. Focuses on non-recirculating fish ponds where microorganisms create an extra protein source for the fish as well as nitrogen removal.

>Aquaponics-Research-at-RMIT

Written by Wilson Lennard. He's a smart guy. This was written back in 2004 but is a good reference regarding media-based systems.

>Engineering Design Process 2nd ed (intro txt) - Y. Haik, T. Shahin (Cengage, 2011) BBS

That would be this textbook. A $100 value!

>evoluton-of-Aquaponics

A lame article written in 2002 from the Aquaponics Journal.

>Recirculating Aquaculture Tank Production

Otherwise known as SRAC Pub 454. If you download just one thing in the dropbox, get this one.

>CSU arming in aquaponics

A masters business project from Cal State in 2013. Some good industry analysis if you want to start a fish farm.

>On-Farm Food Safety Aquaponics

An overview from Hawaii of good agricultural practices.

>Aquaponics Ebb and Flow Mechanisms

85 pages of everything you need to know, even comparisons, of every reliable mechanism of flood/drain media beds.

I would urge you to read Henry Petroski's Design Paradigms along with Levy and Salvadori's Why Buildings Fall Down. Resolving questions of structural failure is not a simple matter of fact checking and can actually ride on theories which engineers did not know were correct (or correct under all circumstances) until after multiple failures.

I am in complete agreement with the notion that the liberal arts and hard sciences have differences. However those differences are not nearly so stark as you suggest. Further, it is difficult for me to find an incentive to join the discussion on epistemology if your framing forecloses the bulk of my argument.

tho, i wouldnt really call this a mathematical problem, it belongs more in a mechanical engineering forum, but nice work nevertheless.

this class of problems, or the subject is called mechanisms, typically taught in mechanical engineering department

and this is typical textbook regarding the subject
https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Resource-McGraw-Hill-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/007742171X

....Amazon?...

You could rewind a MOT's secondary with more turns of thinner wire to give you that voltage, or use a 25 stage multiplier on an unmodified one.

You might be able to do something interesting with automotive ignition coils - they're designed for 50kV output although I've absolutely no idea what sort of continuous power they're able to handle.

If you're going to make a flyback, be aware that 1) the traditional turns ratio is irrelevant because they don't use transformer action but rather treat it as a multi winding inductor, and 2) you can't feed a cockroft-walton multiplier with it because the multiplier wants a symmetric AC input whereas the output from a flyback is highly asymmetric - you'd have to go direct to your desired output voltage with corresponding difficulties with UHV diodes and suchforth

Transformers don't need high frequency to do anything - they simply need enough magnetic volume to not saturate given the peak volt-turn-seconds you're applying. We use high frequencies because it allows drastically larger power transfer through physically smaller transformers by reducing peak volt-turn-seconds.

The Colonel McLyman treatise on inductors (elsewhere available as free PDF with some digging) is a good read, but hunt for other sources of information as well. I found his stuff to be better as reference material than a tutorial.

I take it back.

Brushing up on your magnetics is always a good idea. I recommend this book.

I would also look into some books on dielectric breakdown, and maybe some on distribution. Though it may be too late for books now.

Again GOOD LUCK!

This is a good book.

Try and find an old edition of 'Engineering Drawing and Design' (Jensen), Like this one.

It was the book assigned to me in college 10 years ago, and it's awesome.

Thanks - I'm currently reading Design Paradigms which is the closest thing to an answer I've gotten so far.... Not the book I was thinking of though :/ I went ahead and x-posted and am keeping my fingers crossed

I do not, I am in my jr year of electrical engineering. For a class I can take the C8051 is studied and the teacher isn't very good at explaining concepts.

This is the book that is followed: http://www.amazon.com/Embedded-System-Design-C8051-Han-Way/dp/0495471747/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321768242&sr=8-1

You should focus on learning some mechanical design. Obviously there is math involved, but studying purely mathematical concepts alone won't help you much.

Try a design of machine elements textbook. https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Resource-McGraw-Hill-Mechanical-Engineering/dp/007742171X

I found my old textbook that helped me most when learning to design mechanisms. Many consider it a classic: Design of Machinery by Robert Norton

You might be able to find an older edition for cheap